NOS 1966 Ford 427 SOHC ‘Cammer’ CRATE ENGINE - The Baddest Engine to Ever Come Out of Detroit!

Hey y'all, Nate here, Nate's Classic Car. We're back again. Today we've got two of my favorite motors, the baddest motors to ever come out of Detroit. These are 1966 427 single overhead cams, better known as the camera engine. So why they call these the camera engine is they have three cams. One on each side of the head, single overhead cam, and one in the center to drive the distributor. This is what Ford called the 90 day wonder. So they designed and developed this motor, built it 90 days, and they built it for NASCAR. However, after getting banned from NASCAR, they had to find something to do with these motors. So Ford built roughly around 500. This one is serial number 488, and this one is 490. So these were actually built on the same day and are signed off by the same inspector. These were actually both shipped to Holman and Moody. So after they developed these motors, they had to find something to do. So a lot of drag racers use these motors. Many that we know of, Dino Don, Connie Coletta, Sneaky P. Robinson, quite a few guys use these motors in their dragsters. So we'll show you a little bit about these motors today because you never see them like this. This one right here is still in its original crate today. This is serial number 490, still in its original crate. It has all its tags. You can see the OK plant tag. You can see the Ford Motor Company tag, the Holman and Moody tag, the Holman and Moody receival tag. You can see it all. So this thing's got a lot going for it. If you come around here to the back, you can see this original crate, and you can also see the bell housing with the flywheel, the clutch, clutch fork, and everything all in this one. So this was a crate motor that Ford built in 1966. And as you see it today, it is exactly how it left the factory. So you can see that strap, that shipping strap. You never see stuff like that. And how you know this crate is original, it's got those old screws in it, and this thing's really got it going on. So as you see it today, it's how it left and went to Holman and Moody. So it's got its BTBU carburetors, unique to the camera. It also has this C6AE9425L dual four intake. This is also unique only to the camera. You see the high performance plug wires, the orange high performance Ford plug wires. So very unique to see it like this. And man, it's kind of mind boggling. So this one over here, this is one that Paul, the guy that works with me here at Nate's Classic Cars, he and I actually took this one. This was a motor with tags that we restored. So you can see it also has its tags, same day, same receivable date by Holman and Moody. So you see a lot of the same tags. And up here, we actually made this single overhead cam air cleaner. That is an NOS air filter element that we use for this one. But same thing underneath, you've got the BTBU carburetors. You've got the same 9425L intake. We just wanted to make this one stand out a little bit and look just a little bit different. So we went ahead and put this on it. But like I said, this one we restored using all the original parts we could and really made this a time piece as well. So like I said, never see something like this. You got a 1966 Cameron Crate engine, and you also got a restored 1966 Cameron, two serial numbers away. Impossible to find them like this. We had to do a little video, show you guys. I sold one of these a few years back, set a world record for 140 grand. So you're sitting with quite a bit of money here at Nate's Classic Cars, and we're happy to show you guys these motors and happy to bring it to you. So tune in for more exciting stuff that we have on the horizon, cars, motors. We'll find it all. We'll dig it all out. If you got any of these motors for sale, I'm always buying them, always building them just like this. So if you do, reach out to me, we'll see y'all soon.