the Uren Stampede was developed by British Saloon Car Championship-winning race car driver Jeff Uren, with development assistance from British Formula 1 driver John Miles.
British racing driver Jeff Uren had deep ties with Ford, having won the 1959 British Saloon Car Championship driving a modified Ford Zephyr before becoming the Ford UK competition manager for a number of years in the early-to-mid-1960s.
Thanks to his contacts at Ford, Jeff was able to source not just any old Ford V8, but the high-performance Boss 302 V8.
He would call these cars the Uren Stampede and they wouldn’t be his first specials, they followed in the footsteps of the Uren Navajo, a high-performance Ford Escort, and the Uren Savage, a Ford Cortina powered by a Weslake-tuned Ford V6.
The performance was astonishing for the time, powered by a Boss 302, along with the close-ratio 4-speed Toploader transmission, with a 0-60 mph time the same as a Ferrari Daytona and quicker than a V12 E-Type Jaguar.
In South Africa we had the Capri Perana, homologated for racing. Chevrolet's answer to that was the Firenza CanAm.
ReplyDeleteCapri Perana:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_Green_Motors
https://www.speedhunters.com/2020/08/perana-the-ford-capri-with-v8-bite/
Firenza CanAm:
https://www.sentimetal.shop/blogs/news/the-little-chev-with-big-muscle-firenza-can-am
https://www.carthrottle.com/news/chevrolet-firenza-can-am-tiny-muscle-car-z28-heart