Stranger than fiction

After posting the first of the chapters in the Alternate History of the Rotary Engine I stumble across the Wankel Powered Mustang.

In 1965 [the Curtiss Wright company] bought a Poppy Red Mustang 2+2 (fastback VIN# 5R09C193052) with a 289 V-8 and Cruise-O-Matic from Dockery Ford in Morristown New Jersey. They brought it to their facility in Woodbridge New Jersey and performed the engine swap. The Wankel had 185 hp compared to the 289's 200 hp, but it had a weight advantage of 110 lbs. It was necessary to install a special transmision adapter to mate the drivetrain also. But according to the article the Wankel performed well, tests by an Engineer in the 60's show 0-30 and 0-80 times of 2.8 and 18.4 for the V-8 and 2.9 and 20.0 for the Wankel.

As evidence there are five (six?) scanned pages from a magazine.

[via My Ford Dreams]