Ford RS 1600 road test

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Elsewhere in this issue reference is made to our long-duration test of the RS 1600. The exhaust camshaft seizure was the result of the front bearing picking up due to a surface roughening of the journal in some early BDA engines which broke up the oil film.

The starting trouble was due to a multi-point plug behind the main fuse block working loose. The starter was not to blame.—W.B.