Hello, I currently have a 1970 Lotus 7 that I've taken from a road/track car over the past 6 years to a Vintage (SVRA, VDCA) race car. I'm thinking of switching over to the FF ranks. When anyone asked me about the Lotus 7, I pretty much told them it was a Front engine, 2 seater Formula Ford. In my case I have the Kent 711M engine (dual Weber 40's, 1mm over bore) so not a major leap in engine choice. I've always had my eye on the single seater cars though.
Now, the choice of car. I thought a FF car was a FF car. Never knew about Club Ford. I still want to race in the vintage groups since that's my group of choice. If I had my way, being a Lotus kinda guy I'd just take a Lotus 51 and be the epitomy of FF vintageness. But I don't know if I want to spend the $25K+ for that privilege.
I see some very nice looking CF cars around in the $10-15k range. To get the equivalent pre-73 FF car, it looks like you need to take on another $10k and be in the $20-25k range. I'm not restricting myself to Lotus but a nice Titan, Royale, Merlyn all seem to be in that range.
The vintage groups here (east coast) insist on the spec Dunlops so I don't see much of a performance advantage.
So, I'm trying to see what the down side to getting say a Lola T342 or other 73-79 car. I can't race Monoposto but other than that.....
Before you all sit down for Thanksgiving dinner (in the US), what do ya think?
Oh, in order to so this I'll need to sell my Lotus 7 so if anyone out there is interested in a Group 8 car which is is FF-like.....
Scott