Martin Birrane - Ford Fairlane

[Wendy Wool]

Just flicking through some old pictures the other day and I stumbled across an image of Martin Biranne debuting his recently acquired Ford Failane at Crystal Palace, cica 1970?

He had spun at North Tower and due to the extreme length of the car had blocked the track necessitating other competitors to divert through the trees.
Rumour had it the car only had 2 gears being ex NASCAR!

I just wondered what happened to the car, did it disappear into a barn or was it the base model for the battleship grey model in Germany?

It would be interesting to know its fate.

[Peter Mallett]

I think the Belgian car is a replica/continuation. The ad for it is here

[NICHOLAS JACKSON]

This car went 'missing' so could be in a barn somewhere.
It came from the USA and was sold by Alan Mann, there is a well known advert showing their forecourt with this car and two Falcons up for sale.
Holman and Moody are building 6 replica cars, I believe 3 have been completed the first being sold to the Germans. These cars are very fast and are only allowed to race against sports prototypes rather than saloons. The German car is much faster round a track than any GT40.

[chunterer]

Yes thought it was the Alan Mann car.

Alan even won a race of two with it iirc, but can't recall what it was doing over here though! Some kind of engineering evaluation for Holman Moody?

Frightening really, was there any type of touring car racing that Henry didn't have a car available for?!