Meet the 1952 Ford with an interior patterned after a Porsche.
has been the go-to platform for hot rods since the beginning, but decades later car builders are still coming up with new interpretations of this classic design.
This episode of"Jay Leno's Garage" features one of those more recent builds. Dubbed MyWay, it was fabricated by Joe Kugel of Kugel Komponents over the course of six years and recently won an Outstanding Engineering Award at the prestigious Grand National Roadster Show. Leno spotted the car one day and,Leno was attracted by the car's stock-looking steel body, which is more restrained than a lot of hot-rod builds.
MyWay is powered by a 427-cubic inch Ford V-8, but not the factory kind found in 1960s-era performance cars like the. It's what Kugel calls a Cleavor, so named because it uses the block from Ford's Cleveland engine and the heads from a Windsor engine , and sports fuel injection disguised to look like a set of Weber carburetors. Kugel estimates about 575 hp, which is channeled to the rear wheels through a 5-speed manual transmission.
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