my dad had one for his first car, he put th carb off a cortina (cant remember what the carb is called, was it the GT maybe?) ran lean as, blue/black smoke coming out the pipe, he drove it like that for about a month.......
you still see a few around NZ, even some with V8 in them
but most of them are restored or are still driven by the original owners who bought them of the showroom floor, and have only put 20,000 k's on them
anyways.......