There is a local guy here in Culver City who bought a '55 T Bird new and instantly shit canned the Y block and drag raced the thing for decades with Pontiac power. He still has it. His daily driver is a '66 Malibu wagon with a Pontiac 400 and 4 spd.
Here's a neat conversion on a 56 coming up for sale at Mecum ... used a 90s era Thunderbird SC engine, the 3.8 V6 with Eaton M90 blower. Great down low torque, that would scoot the 56 along just nicely, about 700 lbs. less than the donour vehicle:
There is a local guy here in Culver City who bought a '55 T Bird new and instantly shit canned the Y block and drag raced the thing for decades with Pontiac power. He still has it. His daily driver is a '66 Malibu wagon with a Pontiac 400 and 4 spd.
Guy in our area gas one with a 409. Raced it for years....today still has it. Hangs out on the 409 Forum.
Thom "The object is to keep your balls on the table and knock everybody else's off..."
I'll take one of these, Terminator 4.6 and a Tremec, plz...
The former Remy-Z
"Remy-Z, you've outdone yourself again, I thought a Mirada was the icing on the cake of rodding, but this Imperial is the spread of little 99-cent candy letters spelling out "EAT ME" on top of that cake."
True, and I almost used that picture...it popped up on Google Search. But I prefer rims to have an older dished look on them. Either way, I'm amazed there isn't more done with the MN12's.
The former Remy-Z
"Remy-Z, you've outdone yourself again, I thought a Mirada was the icing on the cake of rodding, but this Imperial is the spread of little 99-cent candy letters spelling out "EAT ME" on top of that cake."
True, and I almost used that picture...it popped up on Google Search. But I prefer rims to have an older dished look on them. Either way, I'm amazed there isn't more done with the MN12's.
Give me time, I'm working on it. Gotta get the rust taken care of first.
True, and I almost used that picture...it popped up on Google Search. But I prefer rims to have an older dished look on them. Either way, I'm amazed there isn't more done with the MN12's.
Here you go, a later shot with the 19x9" and 19x10"American Racing wheels that were on when I sold it:
Last edited by fast Ed; January 15, 2013, 07:06 AM.
Ed Nicholson - Caledon Ontario - a bit NW of Toronto
07 Mustang GT with some stuff
88 T-Bird Turbo Coupe 5-speed
Your head is the rollcage. I hope you're hard headed.
No worries, there are two other safety features instead. One is no seat belts, if the car goes over you are thrown to safety. Which ties into the other which is the sand it's ran on. It gives, a little
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