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Old 09-09-2016, 11:23 AM   #1
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Talking 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.

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Old 09-09-2016, 11:43 AM   #2
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T-Birds were never considered a muscle car
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Old 09-09-2016, 11:49 AM   #3
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That is far from a muscle car...
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Old 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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Old 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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Old 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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Old 09-10-2016, 12:38 AM   #7
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air craft carrier with wheels. a river barge was more nimble
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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Old 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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Old 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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Old 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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Old 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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Old 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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Old 09-11-2016, 10:30 AM   #13
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This a proper full sized muscle car.
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Old 09-11-2016, 10:30 AM   #14
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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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