Random # 300: Ford Four Cylinder Hot Road

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This classic hot rod has me intrigued.  For starters, I don't know what it's been based on - other than an pre-WW2 Ford - and, secondly, it has what I might've thought was a fairly out-there choice of engine, having been fitted with some sort of twin-cam Ford four pot.

Don't get me wrong - I'm not suggesting for a minute that the donk's not up to the job!  To the contrary, the open belt-driven-assembly, twin side draft Webers and sweeping extractors suggest it's one of Ford's very, very best fours and likely to be very quick, but it does seem a little incongruous in the sort of car you might more commonly expect to see sporting a highly chromed V8.

Admittedly, it's not a big car; the power-to-weight ratio would almost certainly make this a mightily potent machine.  The motor's also mounted well aft of the front wheels, and the body's low and wide, so it's likely to handle well, too.

But if someone could fill in the blanks, that'd be appreciated.  So, does anyone know what the car's based on and what's powering it?  I think the engine looks too new to be a British BDA from an Escort but the Webers suggest it's too old to be from a Focus, unless someone's gone to the effort of ditching the latter's fuel-injection.

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