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427 Ford Holman Moody circle track car
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=UD48OX1wu14
this is your brain on a 427...
any questions ??
[:D][8D]
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Posted by John Joyo on Friday, August 6, 2010 ? Leave a comment on the forum
This is RAD. Some schmuck got enough balls and cash together in order to get his Holman Moody prepared 1964 Ford Fairlane 500 to Germany. The final goal? Attack Nurburgring.
Now, typically when you watch in-car "Ring" videos you hear small displacement motors with lots of valves screaming in a high pitched tone while you watch the driver smoothly caress the car through the track. It's a ballet of sorts.
This is something different. This is an American monster literally attacking the track while the driver does his best to contain the power within. It's not a ballet, it's a war.
this is your brain on a 427...
any questions ??
[:D][8D]
http://www.dogfightmag.com/2010/08/a-1964-fairlane-hits-nurburgring/
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Posted by John Joyo on Friday, August 6, 2010 ? Leave a comment on the forum
This is RAD. Some schmuck got enough balls and cash together in order to get his Holman Moody prepared 1964 Ford Fairlane 500 to Germany. The final goal? Attack Nurburgring.
Now, typically when you watch in-car "Ring" videos you hear small displacement motors with lots of valves screaming in a high pitched tone while you watch the driver smoothly caress the car through the track. It's a ballet of sorts.
This is something different. This is an American monster literally attacking the track while the driver does his best to contain the power within. It's not a ballet, it's a war.
Comments
Nothing could touch him on the straights.
I'd have loved to have smelled the exhaust and felt the heat on my feet.
You can tell he's really manhandling that car in the turns, but that mighty American muscle gobbles up Porsches and AC roadsters by the boatload.
You can have all the high $$$ European sports cars you want, but for two city blocks there is nothing like an American big block V8.
Holman-Moody...A great American legend. This is probably as close as I'll ever get.
EDIT yes sort of easy for me to tell it fit a straight 6 just wanted to know C. I. wonder if that guys broke any Mason Jaws
of shine hidden in the trunk. [^]
Most exciting sight l have EVER witnessed is standing on the straitaway at Daytona Continental in 1968/69 watching a GT 40 Ford go by at 230mph..Those 500 thundering horses making the spaghetti exhaust pipes glow cherry red AT NIGHT...
Hello H.P.D. what is the intake for.[?] 300 CI 6 maybe ?
Yep, it fits a 240/300. That used to race at our local dirt track on a 240 powered '32 coupe.
Oh, the fun I could have with an engine like that.....[:p][8D]
Sucked the doors off quite a number of euromeep-meeps, didn't he?
Mr.427 himself took the time out of his busy day to thank the poster for his video. How cool is that?[:D]
A close friend of mine in High School, was lucky enough to acquire a 427 side oilier from a friends wrecked Cobra. We spent all summer mounting that thing under the hood of a turd of a 67 Mustang GT. After obtaining a large hood scoop so we could get the hood shut, that beast would light up the streets It was the only car in our little town that could beat my 68 Shelby GT500KR...[^]
Trinity +++
Did you notice Bob Bondurant's comment below this video?[:)]
Mr.427 himself took the time out of his busy day to think the poster for his video. How cool is that?[:D]
A close friend of mine in High School, was lucky enough to acquire a 427 side oilier from a friends wrecked Cobra. We spent all summer mounting that thing under the hood of a turd of a 67 Mustang GT. After obtaining a large hood scoop so we could get the hood shut, that beast would light up the streets It was the only car in our little town that could beat my 68 Shelby GT500KR...[^]
Trinity +++
Veterans day Parade here in Eugene Oregon, Guy driving a Galaxy like the one in the video. They were bragging on the car its set some speed records, but I was not paying attention just watching the car as he drove up in the parade.
He was with a group of other cars like a viper and something else. Couple of the other drivers reved their engines and dropped the clutch and did a small Burnout.
All he did was step on the gas and did a big burnout, Can say I barely remember there were other cars with him. He was in his late 60's and you could tell the car is what kept him young.
quote:Originally posted by footlong
grump- Likely you saw a Ford ThundderBolt.. A factory built Ford Fairlane with a 427 in it.. They built 200 1964 Ford ThunderBolts to qualify the car as a ''stock'' car for drag racing [^]
grump- Likely you saw a Ford ThundderBolt.. A factory built Ford Fairlane with a 427 in it.. They built 200 1964 Ford ThunderBolts to qualify the car as a ''stock'' car for drag racing [^]
That may have been it. Know you felt it before you saw it at Idle. Also know when he got on it, it brought a smile to my face.
Closest I'll get to my dream engine, a tunnel-port 427, are someone else's pictures.[:I][:D][V]
Oh, the fun I could have with an engine like that.....[:p][8D]
Oh, yeah. Nestle that baby down into one of those 2500 lb Shelby Cobra kit cars with Jaguar rack and pinion and 4 wheel disc brakes, and look out Mr Vette...
Closest I'll get to my dream engine, a tunnel-port 427, are someone else's pictures.[:I][:D][V]
Oh, the fun I could have with an engine like that.....[:p][8D]
We did, still have my blueprint specs [^] Built a few for drag boats back then [8D]
here's some youtube vids
idling in my driveway, after washing the engine
slow cruise down local roads here
burnout
scaring the passenger a bit more
idling in driveway