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The original Ferguson 4-wheel drive system was Harry FergusonResearch Ltd’s P121 system, co-manufactured with Valerio Colotti’sGSD works in Modena, Italy. A single transmission aggregatemounted behind the Ford V8 engine comprised gearbox and controlunit, and provided four forward gars plus reverse. With a lesspowerful engine than the 510bhp, 475lbs/ft torque H&M Ford unit,five speeds would have been built into the same FF P121 casing.Torque-split was approximately 33-67 per cent fornt/rear. A threepieceprop-shaft powered the front wheels and both front and rearhalf-shafts used constant-velocity Rzeppa-pattern universal joints ateach end.Girling CR caliper disc brakes were featured inboard on the halfshaftsboth front and rear, 13 ½-inches diameter front and 11-inch rears. Peter Westbury told the press that entries were beingconsidered in the forthcoming CanAm Challenge Cup race series inthe US and Canada “if a sponsor can be found”.Unfortunately, the search proved fruitless and Daghorn retired thecar from its Guards Trophy debut with brake problems. The carwas described in a brief photo feature in the British monthly ‘MotorRacing’ magazine – issue date October 1966 –but with the Group7 sports-racing car category being abandoned for 1967-68, thiscomplex projectile was all dressed up – with nowhere to go.Hill-climb Champion Peter Westbury then sold the car to fellow hillclimberJohn McCartney although there seems to be no record on fileof him actually using it in competition. It then passed to omnipresentdealer J.A. Pearce in Southall, Middlesex,From whom c. 1972 it passed as a rolling chassis only – without4WD transmission system - to enthusiast Maurice Starbuck ofSheffield. He bought March 701 wheels for it from the Bicesterfactory and supposedly the aluminium body from the sister 2-litreFelday 4 from McCartney although this seems unlikely given theapparent size difference between the two cars.We understand that Maurice Starbuck then fitted the car witha Chrysler Hemi V8 engine and a Ford GT40/Lotus 30-type ZFtransaxle gearbox before campaigning the car briefly in the early1970s. He subsequently stored it for many years until Shropshirebuilder and racing enthusiast Graham Galliers bought it for his owngrowing collection of exotic and unusual competition cars c. 2008.We are told that Felday 5’s 4WD system passed to Peter Westbury’seventual successor as RAC British Hill-climb Champion DavidHepworth who used it with immense success in his Guyson-Sandblaster Special hill-climb car.This most unusual might-have-been is offered here as viewedand at No Reserve. With its 1966 Guards Trophy racing debut ithas International motor racing history, and its potential as a verysophisticated and massively tractable ‘big-banger’ sports-racingproposition remains self-evident.£15,000 - 20,000€19,000 - 25,000No Reserve123Motor Cars | 79