1972 Four Wheel Drive Jag
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t'internet's a wonderful thing isn't it?
Came across this this evening, thought I'd share. I thought I had my ear to the ground pretty well but I'd never heard of this project.
I've read the story of the XJS turbo four wheel drive which I guess was a development of this theme and I was aware of the Ferguson Triumph Estates along with their Stag engines ( Isle Of Man where a FF Director lived,ring a bell?)
Acknowledgements to the original poster.
Came across this this evening, thought I'd share. I thought I had my ear to the ground pretty well but I'd never heard of this project.
I've read the story of the XJS turbo four wheel drive which I guess was a development of this theme and I was aware of the Ferguson Triumph Estates along with their Stag engines ( Isle Of Man where a FF Director lived,ring a bell?)
Acknowledgements to the original poster.
Carsie said:
t'internet's a wonderful thing isn't it?
Came across this this evening, thought I'd share. I thought I had my ear to the ground pretty well but I'd never heard of this project.
I've read the story of the XJS turbo four wheel drive which I guess was a development of this theme and I was aware of the Ferguson Triumph Estates along with their Stag engines ( Isle Of Man where a FF Director lived,ring a bell?)
Acknowledgements to the original poster.
When i had my 2.5pi i tried long and hard to buy that estate (it was laying in a builders yard)!Came across this this evening, thought I'd share. I thought I had my ear to the ground pretty well but I'd never heard of this project.
I've read the story of the XJS turbo four wheel drive which I guess was a development of this theme and I was aware of the Ferguson Triumph Estates along with their Stag engines ( Isle Of Man where a FF Director lived,ring a bell?)
Acknowledgements to the original poster.
lowdrag said:
If you read the history of Tony Rolt, who won Le Mans with Duncan Hamilton, it was he who developed the 4WD system, and tried it out on a number of cars. It was fitted to several police Zodiacs, plus of course the FF.
And not forgetting their original development car, a 1966 Ford Mustang, FWK 863D, which was tested by Autocar in early 1968.Yet another fact learnt on here. I haven't blown up the article to read it yet, but I can't imagine that was the easiest engineering job in the world!
It reminded me of one of the 4-wheel drive ex-police Ford Zephyrs
that I saw once for sale in Devon, back in the 70's. It was just sat on the garage forecourt alongside the rest of their stock. I didn't realise how rare it was at the time, it was just marked up as any other used Zephyr. Had I known then what I know now.........
It reminded me of one of the 4-wheel drive ex-police Ford Zephyrs
that I saw once for sale in Devon, back in the 70's. It was just sat on the garage forecourt alongside the rest of their stock. I didn't realise how rare it was at the time, it was just marked up as any other used Zephyr. Had I known then what I know now.........It's an impressive piece of work but at the risk of sounding like a heretic I must admit I find it rather pointless, since what they've ended up with is essentially an FF with a Jaguar body on it. Now if they'd found a way to make the FF system fit and work with the Jag V12 I'd probably be making a mess in my pants and planning a bank robbery.
Pigeon said:
It's an impressive piece of work but at the risk of sounding like a heretic I must admit I find it rather pointless, since what they've ended up with is essentially an FF with a Jaguar body on it. Now if they'd found a way to make the FF system fit and work with the Jag V12 I'd probably be making a mess in my pants and planning a bank robbery.
The later FF system used a more compact torsen diff IIRC as used in the first adapted automatic Schuler range rovers. The early FF system was massively over engineered.That said an FF with a four door jag body doesn't sound bad. Especially if we're talking a hemi mopar motor.
FF Developments used to be a customer of mine back in the ninties, remember going there one day and they were testing a Mclaren, the test driver was quite happy for me to look around it, to my dismay the interior was wrecked by all the test gear which it was carrying, and I still remember how feathered the rear tyres were
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