We're searching for the '65 RC2-60 Rotary Mustang fastback that was ahead of its time - yet long forgotten today.

How do news making events of a period manage to get lost to the passage of time? Case in point is the RC2-60 Mustang fastback.  Where is it and what inspired someone to stuff it full of Curtiss-Wright RV2-60 twin-rotor rotary power?  For that matter, who built it?

The rotary engine, brainchild of the late Felix Wankel, met with limited success when everyone thought the future would ultimately belong to this engine. Mazda has embraced the rotary as witness its RX7 and RX8 lines.  And who can forget the Mazda rotary coupes of the 1970s?  Yet the rotary has remained largely a performance engine because it struggles with high fuel consumption and more frequent maintenance than its reciprocating counterparts. Power output is comparable to a V-8, yet it sounds like a four or a six - buzzy at rpm.

The RC2-60 twin-rotor engine displacing 240ci made 185 horsepower at 5,000 rpm along with 192 ft/lbs of torque at 3,750 rpm, which was comparable to the 289 it replaced.  The rotary was splined into the 289's C4 Cruise-O-Matic transmission with the same gearing.  Nice part about the rotary was the pounds it shaved off the Mustang, tipping the scales at 2,575 pounds.

So we ask you, our readers - who out there knows anything about the RC2-60 Mustang fastback?  Does anyone know of its whereabouts today and who built it 45 years ago?  Contact us via our website at www.mustangmonthly.com or write to us at Jim.Smart@sorc.com or Mustang Monthly, 9036 Brittany Way, Tampa, Fl 33619.