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And then there is the beautiful   10.5:1 compression ratio, the V8
                                                     Bermuda, a rare gem and part     makes an equally impressive 303
                                                     of American motoring history.    horsepower.
                                                     There’s never been a car like    Originally a manual column-
                                                     this ’58 Edsel. Modified and     shifted example, the team at
                                                     restored by Roush in 2016, the   Roush went to painstaking
                                                     single-production-year Edsel     detail to swap in a 3-speed
                                                     Bermuda represents the top-of-   automatic transmission. This
                                                     the line station wagon offered   required several other items
                                                     by Ford Motor Company’s bold     to be changed, including the
                                                     mid-tier Edsel marque. Power is   three pedals inside the car being
                                                     delivered by the Edsel-exclusive   converted to the period-correct
                                                     361ci “E-400” V8 engine, named   two-pedal system appropriate for
                                                     for its impressive output of 400   the automatic transmission. A
                                                     ft/lbs of torque. Fed by a four-  new transmission control linkage
                                                     barrel carburetor and with a     was fabricated, and the original



















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