As featured in Australian MUSCLE CAR issue #126, this car was not just the first big V8 sports racing car in Australia, but it was also the mobile racing test-bed for a bold plan to design and manufacture a quad-cam cylinder head conversion for the Ford Windsor V8 engine in Adelaide in the mid-1960s.
The Globe Products quad-cam Ford Windsor V8 engine
Ultimately the home-grown Aussie quad-cam Ford V8 wasn’t a commercial success, but what it did was lay the foundations of the Globe Products company that went on to manufacture alloy wheels, including those famous Globe ‘Bathurst’ alloys on the Torana XU-1s and Falcon GTHO Phase IIIs in 1972.
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