Pictures of the new 302 SBC by www.frankiesgarage.com who built this wonderful engine - thanks Frankie for another great job!

The Crosslé Car Company was founded by John and Rosemary Crosslé in 1957, and soon established itself as a manufacturer of high quality racing cars for those wishing to participate in the expanding motor-sport scene after the war. John Crosslé's attention to detail and value for money ideals, coupled with good design and sensible strong construction soon led to a rapidly expanding company. Early beginnings in 1172 Ford Specials soon led to the building of replicas for John's friends. Formula Juniors and sports cars soon followed. Single seaters encompassed Formula Two and Formula 5000. A full list of cars produced can be seen on the historic section of their Website. The company became a real world leader when the formula Ford class was formed and was soon leading the field in both Europe and America. Crosslé Cars soon became established as one of the leading racing car manufacturers in the world, and certainly the largest producer of competitive cars in Ireland. Many Irish drivers who went on to international success started their careers in a Crosslé Formula Ford. They are currently producing a new run of the 1966 9S sports car. The design has been modified to allow the use of the modern Ford Zetec two-litre engine. Great attention has been paid to low maintenance and running costs - see New 9S on their webpage for more information.  (copied with kind permission from the Crosslé Car Company)

Three F5000 chassis have been built of which two went to America to be raced in Formula A and the last one stayed in Europe where it was entered by Fred Saunders, a deep sea diver from Ireland, in more than 30 rounds of the European Formula 5000 series. Part of the series were a couple of non championship F1 races where Fred competed against famous names like Graham Hill, Jackie Stuart, John Surtees, Jochen Rindt, Emerson Fittipaldi, Clay Regazzoni and others. This gives us goosebumps whenever we get in the car.

At the beginning a Rover V8 was installed in the wingless car but over the years this 15F has been developed and modified a lot. During the restoration we went back to the appearance when Fearless Fred raced it. The people love the car whereever we go and it's huge fun as F5000 is still the cheapest way of racing a proper late 60 early 70 Formula 1 car.