09-09-2016, 11:23 AM | #1 |
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World's Biggest Muscle Car? (^-^)
Would you say the 7th gen T-Bird, was perhaps the biggest muscle car of all time?
1972-76 Thunderbird Just always had this thought seeing Jack Cassidy chasing Clint Eastwood in The Eiger Sanction (1975) movie, lol. |
09-09-2016, 11:43 AM | #2 |
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T-Birds were never considered a muscle car
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09-09-2016, 11:49 AM | #3 |
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That is far from a muscle car...
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09-09-2016, 11:56 AM | #4 |
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I owned a 1976 white with red t-bird. 460ci. of gutless wonder.
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09-09-2016, 12:02 PM | #5 |
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Muscle car era was dead by the time that POS was here.
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09-09-2016, 09:36 PM | #6 |
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air craft carrier with wheels. a river barge was more nimble
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09-10-2016, 12:38 AM | #7 |
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To be fair, nimbleness was not the strong suit of the muscle car. As I like to say, muscle cars only turned well enough to make another pass at the drag strip.
The 70's era Thunderbird didn't really even belong at the drag strip though ...
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09-10-2016, 12:45 AM | #8 |
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Thats when stunt men had to be great drivers as well.......wheelin those big tubes around in those 70s movies took alot of skill....and kickin them sideways arounds corners looked painful.
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09-10-2016, 06:04 PM | #9 |
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I had a 71 T-BIRD 4 door with suicide doors . That car was a beast with the 429. I could easily do 150mph with out breaking a sweat. Now stopping it from that speed was another thing all together .Beat a couple Corvettes with it back in the day.
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09-11-2016, 08:50 AM | #10 |
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60's hemi Dodge Coronet maybe... Garlits had (has?) one in his museum. Built for the FBI
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09-11-2016, 09:11 AM | #11 |
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425hp 427 Caprice would be pretty close to the Coronet in size.
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09-11-2016, 09:21 AM | #12 |
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From the Ford camp, maybe a super cobra jet Fairlane. Don't know if any T-birds were built with that engine, dimension wise, both cars are boats.
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09-11-2016, 10:30 AM | #13 |
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This a proper full sized muscle car.
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09-11-2016, 10:30 AM | #14 |
I once owned a 1967 Chrysler Newport 4 door with a 383 in it.....I dubbed it the USS Newport. Biggest land barge I ever owned. Had decent speed in a straight line. Cornering however.....abysmal.
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