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Thunderbird Club
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Buick Carrera, a joint venture by GM and VW.
I have one of these, it's sick though but was pretty quick. 6.0L
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That’s some beautiful woodwork you’ve done!
Right there with ya!
A couple of years ago I decided to test drive a low miles used Bentley Continental GT Speed. I flogged it pretty hard and came away completely sold. Told the wife it will be the next car purchase. One of these days I’ll need to make that happen, maybe after the move if we get a bigger garage.
With the right engine those things scoot!
With a couple of simple mods and tuned it was putting out close to 400 hp, stock 361, I used to even get a chirp out of the third gear shift (100 mph), I didn't do that very often.
Not a lot available from '45-especially with AC.
That's to help it 'fly' across the room.
Oh I don’t know. I just to see one around locally that someone had converted to RHD. I’d call it “striking” rather than ugly. Mind you it seemed twice as big as the local cars, and half of the trucks!
Only ever saw a Chevy Monza as a sports sedan racer here running a worked 350.
All the US don’t divisions got one of those didn’t they? Chev Monza, Buick Skyhawk, Pontiac ?, Olds (was it Sunfire?)
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All based on in the same H body Chevy Vega platform after the Vega was discontinued…
Chevy Monza
Pontiac Sunbird
Oldsmobile Starfire
Buick Skyhawk
A whopping 110 horsepower (wouldn’t be surprised if it had about the same power to weight ratio as a VW Bug). The final straw for me was when I hit a speed bump at about 10mph and the entire underside of the dashboard and all the wiring fell into my lap. Generally speaking, the 1970’s weren’t great reliability years for most American made cars, some exceptions, mostly in the early 70’s, but after ‘73 pretty much all of it was
. By the mid 90’s Detroit had it kinda sorted out.
oh shoot, i thought I was on a car forum for a minute!
As promised, here's a Bandcamp link to the 4 song demo we just put out. Would love to get ears/shares/likes/etc on it if you wouldn't mind. T-bird related content: the bass you hear is my Epi Thunderbird. That's all.
Now how about some car AND T-bird related content? It's a Ford Thunderbird Member's Only jacket circa 1985. Evidently when you bought a Ford T-bird in the mid 80's, you got one of these jackets too. My FIL gave it to me years ago and it makes its way to a gig every now and then.
As promised, here's a Bandcamp link to the 4 song demo we just put out. Would love to get ears/shares/likes/etc on it if you wouldn't mind. T-bird related content: the bass you hear is my Epi Thunderbird. That's all.
Now how about some car AND T-bird related content? It's a Ford Thunderbird Member's Only jacket circa 1985. Evidently when you bought a Ford T-bird in the mid 80's, you got one of these jackets too. My FIL gave it to me years ago and it makes its way to a gig every now and then.
Aha! Mixed them up.All based on in the same H body Chevy Vega platform after the Vega was discontinued…
Chevy Monza
Pontiac Sunbird
Oldsmobile Starfire
Buick Skyhawk
A whopping 110 horsepower (wouldn’t be surprised if it had about the same power to weight ratio as a VW Bug). The final straw for me was when I hit a speed bump at about 10mph and the entire underside of the dashboard and all the wiring fell into my lap. Generally speaking, the 1970’s weren’t great reliability years for most American made cars, some exceptions, mostly in the early 70’s, but after ‘73 pretty much all of it was
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