The Man, The Myth, The Legend, Bob Norwood, has been building, racing, restoring and servicing vintage/race Ferraris and other vehicles for over fifty years. He is known for incorporating innovative developments in high performance automotive design.

His passion for cars started at a young age. At age 13, he drove a 1946 Ford Coupe in his first competitive race. He continued drag racing while in high school, driving a six-cylinder GMC G-Gas Coupe and later an A-Sports Corvette. In 1971, he raced a Superstock Hemi-Cuda and made it number two in the A/FC world points standings.

Norwood entered Cam AM racing in 1982 with the purchase of Carl Hass’ 1979 Citi-Corp Championship car. He ran SCCA A-Sports with driver Phil Compton and continued in 1983 with the addition of a second Lola 333 driven by Mike Rowe. The Norwood team teamed up with Don Walker in late 1983, bought Team VDS and won Cam AM in 1984. At one point he was the proud owner of 137 listings in the Guinness Book of Automotive World Records.

In the mid-1980s, Bob’s modified Ferrari 308 QV, the first with programmable fuel injection, set two class speed records on the Bonneville Salt Flats, one of which stood for 26 years.

His rebodied Ferrari 288 GTO still holds the record as the world’s fastest Ferrari and his twin-turbo-intercooled Ferrari Testarossa won a Road & Track Magazine Shootout.

In the late 1980s, Norwood fitted a Ferrari 12-cylinder Boxer engine with a locomotive supercharger. It featured a lightened flywheel and razor-sharp crank, and could go from 1,200 engine RPM at idle to the 9,000 RPM redline in just over a tenth of a second. It was certified on a 901 Superflow engine dyno to make 1,400 horsepower on 120-octane gasoline at 60 psi boost.

The short-stroke 3.2-inch bore engine was upgraded with a billet Crower crankshaft, extra-long Crower connecting rods and custom forged pistons. It was managed by a Haltech F3 EFI controller and a Firepower Direct-Fire 12 coil ignition system. Fast forward to today and he is building (including engine block and heads) custom 5.0 liter 4 cylinder engines from the ground up that they produce over 3,000 horsepower.

Drawing on his racing experience and passion for Ferraris, Norwood’s first Ferrari restoration projects were a 330 2+2 road car and a Boano club race car. He then built his first Ferrari replica, a 59/TR (Testarossa), and later built four more. Since then he has built numerous Ferrari replicas, including the 330/P4. After years of building P4 replicas, GTO bodies, and 250 Testrossa 59s, he decided to build Ferrari 250 GT SWB Spyders with new bodywork (scroll down for more on these and their 330 P/4s).

In addition to his own projects, he builds race and street engines for various racing teams and is one of the leading service and restoration providers for Ferrari owners/collectors worldwide.