Every November, US tuning car owners gather in Las Vegas for the SEMA show, which has become one of the largest international auto shows. At this event, the “Grand Turismo Awards SEMA” is awarded.
Kazunori Yamauchi, the producer of the “GT” racing simulator, personally evaluates the most unusual and powerful cars and selects the most worthy. He did not bypass the Ford Mustang Trans-Cammer.
In 2009, this award was given to a supercar based on the 1970 Mustang. The car’s body is familiar to every American from childhood, but in this case, it hides a powerful race car. Its heart is a 1960s Ford engine, located centrally at the front. The SOHC power unit, known as the Cammer and SOCC, was developed to end the dominance of the Chrysler HEMI on NASCAR tracks.
Now, there are practically no such engines left, but the owner of the auto shop, Phil Keenan, found a surviving specimen in a California parts warehouse, brought it to working condition, and installed it on the chassis of a Mustang – a model that was extremely popular in the sixties.
The V8 engine develops an incredible power of up to 670 hp. The car’s transmission, suspension, and brake system use racing components, and the body is made of lightweight fiberglass. The design includes such creative solutions as exhaust pipes running through the sills. Every true connoisseur dreams of such a car.
Ford Mustang Trans-Cammer Specifications
- Engine displacement – 6998 cm³
- Power – 608 hp / 6800 rpm
- Torque – 711.3 Nm / 5500 rpm
- Drive / Boost – Rear-wheel drive, front-engine layout (FR) / Naturally aspirated – AC
