TriX, essentially yes. We purchased it new from a local Lincoln dealership. It has a 351 Cleveland but Hewland didn't make the transaxles for those. ZF in Switzerland did. It is a 5 speed. The speedometer goes to 200 MPH and I've used almost all the numbers, both on the track and on the street.

The car itself has been through several transitions, as we used it for a test bed for suspension experiments. To drive the car hard enough to test suspension components and adjustments, we modified a Cleveland that ended up producing around 800HP. This engine was totally unmanageable in a street setting. So, after we were finished testing, etc. we changed the engine back to the stock one. We also pretty much re-installed a lot of the interior parts that we removed during testing.

Later we juiced the stock one just a little and dyno'd it and found it to produce a respectable, but manageable, amount of HPs. However, we kept a lot of the track settings and equipment in the car. It still has the full roll cage, 4-point harnesses, Halon fire suppression system, larger radiator, and different sway bars. Probably a few other things that don't come to mind at the moment. The tires are Pirelli P-Zeros 335-35 rears and 245-45 fronts. I don't recall which dampers we used, but they are adjustable. We also weighed and balanced the car for percentage front to rear loading. I think the next thing I'd consider doing is an electronic fuel injection system. Carburetor parts are getting harder and harder to locate.
--Bob

My choice would be Citroen DS21. In that era many thought it was many years ahead of other cars in engineering. For example they were one of the 1st cars with front wheel drive, perhaps the first with disc brakes. a wonderful air suspension that allowed driver to select height off the road for the car and numerous other features. Citroen did not do well in this country. I thought people did not understand the car. They were also plagued with poor dealer support -- mainly mechanics that were not always well trained in repairing these cars that were wildly different from anything sold here. I always wanted to have one but it became hard to find mechanics that were good at repairing them and parts were often hard to find. In France where they were built they seemed to be the car of choice by dignitaries from President on down. Citroen (merged with other French companies) and are still built but they are mostly like other cars today -- no longer sticking their necks out with extremely unusual design.