Yahoo Autos What If Your Race Car Is a 900 Horsepower Wing from 1973?
British heavy industrial and agricultural manufacturer CJB's chairman, Lord Bamford, is a huge car enthusiast who has not one, but two Ferrari 250 GTOs. One is a Series 2, you know. This huge orange wing is also part of his collection, but it's Andy Newall who gets the most out of its 8.8 liter Chevrolet big block, often at Goodwood.
The McLaren M8F was designed for the 1971 season but the JCB version was built in 1973 and raced in America before it found its way to the UK, where it's been competing ever since. Packing a 540 cubic inch Chevy, its a high-downforce car with all the grip you could ask for, given its Avon slicks are warm enough and you dare to go faster than what your doctor would recommend.
Let Andy show you around his seat and tell you all about those strangely angled velocity stacks:
