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The Ford World Loses Another Friend
Today we say goodbye to Wayne Jeffers, Ford enthusiast, collector, historian, and Cammer FE engine fanatic. See our blog for more.
I've only met Wayne once, at a show here in Central Florida, but we became "email buddies" over the years. Just about on a weekly basis I'd get some joke or Ford find email from him, or perhaps an email with a photo of his latest purchase or a project update. Wayne was the perennial Ford fanatic and loved Ford motorsports and its history. He owned several rare and historical race cars from the '60s and loved anything that had to do with Ford's FE based Cammer engine.
Long time readers might remember his Fairlane, seen above. Wayne's Fairlane featured a stroked Cammer running a wild EFI setup. It was such a cool car that not only did I give it an Editor's Choice award when I was the editor of Mustang & Fords, that I also saw to it that we had it photographed for a full feature in the magazine. When I sent freelancer Dale Amy over to Wayne's place for the shoot Wayne offered to put Dale up at his house for a few days to shoot other cars for us as well as his avid collection of rare and prototype Cammer intakes, blocks, heads, and more. Unfortunately Dale couldn't take him up on his offer at the time, but had planned to come back to do so.
Besides race cars, classic Fords, and Cammer goodies Wayne had a GT-40 replica and a Ford GT supercar, both of which he loved to give friends rides in and scare the hell out of them with his driving style. For the last several years in December Wayne would open up his collection and his home to other Ford enthusiasts coming to Florida for the annual PRI trade show. Unfortunately, as his health turned for the worse there was no barbecue this year and we (including his many friends on the www.fordfe.com forum) heard less and less from him. It was ironic that at Silver Springs Mustang & Ford Roundup this past weekend, where I first met Wayne several years ago, that I heard he had passed away.
Wayne, here's to you and your generosity and keeping the Blue Oval faith alive. There's a lot of people missing you right now.
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