RCNMag.com WINTER 2019 BMW V10-Powered SL-C Wide-Body Beck 904 709 hp Craft Small-Block THE FRENCH CONNECTION How a Gallic designer of exotic cars in Dubai hooked up with a Kentucky Cobra builder Page 44 Boss-powered 1969 Alan Mann Open Sports Ford Page 10 PUBLISHING INC PUBLISHING COLE PAID U.S. POSTAGE U.S. PRSTD STD PRSTD COLE PUBLISHING INC., PO BOX 220, THREE LAKES WI 54562 54562 WI LAKES THREE 220, BOX PO INC., PUBLISHING COLE ELECTRONIC SERVICE REQUESTED SERVICE ELECTRONIC $59,995 base price of each car outfitted with nearly $20,000 in options including parking brake, front and rear lift assist, V8 Graziano, and more. Invoices available to show all options. Brand new Michelin Pilot Sport tires ($1,750). MSRP $82,000 not including tires or shipping. Two to choose from - white gel with silver powder coated wheels or grey gel with black powder coated wheels. Ready for your engine and final assembly. $79,900 Winter Sale Price $75,900 Available now! Call or text 715-493-7911 Contents 44 OMING NEXT MONTH C On the Cover A.J. Foyt Indy Car The Jannarelly Design-1 mirrors the Lotus Seven in concept, as a stripped down, Superformance Future GT Forty bare-bones driver. This example was finished at the Dream Car Co. in Kentucky, and The Case For Coilovers is the first Jannarelly on the road in the United States. Photo by Juan Lopez-Bonilla. Smyth Charger Conversion THROTTLE STEERING READER’S RIDE 6 Featuring Your Project Car 34 Racy Story By Steve Temple, Editor Revealing the birth of the wide-body Beck 904 GTS. As told by John Mathys RCN ONLINE 8 @RCNmag.com TECH A preview of current online exclusive content. 40 Numbers Game Pulling big-block power out of a 465 ci small-block. FEATURE CAR By Steve Temple 10 The Boss Is Back COVER STORY The Boss-powered 1969 Alan Mann Open Sports Ford. By Karen Salvaggio 44 The French Connection International collusion to build the first Jannarelly Design-1 in the U.S. FEATURE CAR By Juan Lopez-Bonilla with Phil Whitaker 16 The Spitfirrari FEATURE CAR Marriage Italian-style, between a Brit and a barchetta. By Iain Ayre 50 Profiling the Coupe Crafting a copy of Carroll Shelby’s CSX2300 Daytona Coupe. READER’S RIDE By Steve Temple 22 Moonshot READER’S RIDE The challenge of installing a BMW V10 engine in a Superlite SL-C. As told by Daniel Gherhsin 56 The Hard Way The rocky start to a happy ending in a cherished 289 street Cobra. FEATURE CAR As told by Gary Cook 28 Rare Bird The new Swift from Simpson Design emulates a rare Lotus 11. By Steve Temple 4 CONTENTS 10 22 16 28 TECH 62 New Dimensions 3D printing provides a new source for rare parts. By Dan Burrill READER’S RIDE 66 Presidential Prerogative Culminating 45 years in the Corvette hobby with a Grand Sport. As told by Doug and Delora Hanner EVENT RECAP 72 Low-Volume Industry Excels at SEMA 2018 34 50 Drift Cobras, live builds and a V12 Cheetah in Las Vegas. By Dean Larson FEATURE CAR 80 Moment of Decision Classical or new age, JPS Motorsports builds a 356 for you. By Steve Temple FEATURE CAR 86 Triumphant Return Recreating Le Mans-winning Spitfire fastbacks. By Rob Hawkins RCN 66 86 94 Marketplace reincarnationmag.com | Winter 2019 5 THROTTLE STEERING Featuring Your Project Car n our previous issue, I noted in my column that That’s the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. I this is the time of year that many of you tackle I’m always impressed by your ingenuity and persistence Steve Temple new project cars, so I shared a few suggestions in overcoming various challenges, and also expressing Editor for making the most of your workspace. (And I also creativity with custom touches. That’s why our Reader’s realized that I need to follow my own advice.) Ride features are some of my favorites, and we’ve Anyway, as you make headway on your buildup expanded the size and number in each issue. during those long winter months, scraping knuckles So we invite you send us high-res photos (1 MB and toiling in a cold garage late at night, I wanted to or larger, please) of your completed project car, along give you something to look forward to when you’re with some info on your project. We’re especially done. A light at the end of the tunnel, as it were — looking for details on how you’ve customized it. While and it’s not an oncoming Cobra. the parts and pieces are important, we also like to One of the main duties of ReinCarNation is to hear about your personal background and any fun provide you, dear reader, with what your peers are and informative stories you’d like to share. Please handcrafting. 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Watson’s StreetWorks ..............................61 Facebook.com/ReinCarNationMag Instagram.com/rcnmag reincarnationmag.com | Winter 2019 9 1969 Can-Am Ford THE BOSS IS BACK Recreating Can-Am history of the Boss-powered 1969 Alan Mann Open Sports Ford Story by Karen Salvaggio | Photos by Marshall Autry 10 reincarnationmag.com | Winter 2019 11 1969 Can-Am Ford om Cantrell’s world revolves around The horsepower wars were on, reaching a crescendo excellence, and it seems he will go to on track from 1966 to 1987 in the Canadian- T any length to achieve perfection on, American Challenge Cup, better known as Can-Am. and off, the race track. The owner of Unlike the previous set of racing class rules, Alan Mann a successful construction business in the Pacific though, the Can-Am series adopted a formula libre Northwest and a collector of vintage cars, Tom has rulebook.