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      08-16-2016, 02:00 PM   #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.

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      08-16-2016, 02:43 PM   #2
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Would you say the 7th gen T-Bird, was perhaps the biggest muscle car of all time?
No. This was:

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No. This was:

While it certainly has muscles, it's not a muscle car.
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Neither of those are muscle cars. Drunk posting?
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Goodness- I had one of those tanks when I was 16- way back in the early '80s
'73 t-bird running a 460.

Not sure which moved faster- the speedo or the gas gauge, but pretty sure the gas gauge needle was faster...

Just looked up the specs- was a lotta engine to only pull a 10.7 0-60 time
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Neither of those are muscle cars.
Precisely why I slapped an H1 up as a counterpoint. Passive-aggressive farcing, hehe ... and to get the WTF!?! party started ...

THIS is the biggest muscle car ever:



6,000 lbs. The V12 from the Countach, with a tune that produced about 450HP. (and a marine-spec V12 with even more power was an option). 50/50 weight distribution. Something like a 75-gallon fuel tank. 0-60 in 7.8 seconds.
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Yea the hummer is even more anemic... isnt it 0-60 in like 15or 16 sec?
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How about a Bentley Flying Spur Mansory?

0-60 mph 3.6 seconds

Weight 5412 lbs

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The Big Bird T-bird has the short rear deck, long hood proportions that are associated with muscle cars. Later Thunderbirds were too sedan like in shape. Put a blower and some Cragars on that large T-bird and it might make it.
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