Thunderbird Club

[RedVee]

That's an impressive 155CI inline 6!

A Holden “grey” engine originally in 132ci and 138ci capacities. With “just a little” work done to it!

A whole industry grew up around modifying the old grey for racing and especially speedway.
Phil Irving , who later designed the F1 Repco V8 engine out of the Olds 215ci for Jack Brabham’s 66&67 World Champ winning cars, designed a new head for the grey engine.

 

[RedVee]

Ok so, um, do Thunderbirds have anything to do with Chuck Norris and/or the number 42 ?

Et Voila!

 

[RedVee]

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Beat me to it!

 

[GonePlaid]

would have never pegged you for someone who'd favor raw ground beef....

would have never pegged you for someone who'd favor raw ground beef....

I used to like my steaks very rare, but as I've aged, I've gone to medium rare towards the rare end of the spectrum.

 

[GonePlaid]

Me either.
Next Mike will be sliding down raw oysters. What's the world coming to?

Not a chance in hell. The closest I'd come to that is fried clams. I used to like those-been so long since I've had 'em, I prolly lost my taste for them.

 

[GonePlaid]

And using a smart phone with a 20 mega pixel camera.

Highly unlikely.

 

[JIO]

sweet sounding 18 watts....no need for more, Leo even got that right with Princetons and Harvards....
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SPARKLE?

 

[GonePlaid]

which he'll buy onboard WiFi for, so he can post on TB while on the west coast bound Southwest...

Nope.

 

[JIO]

I raced there for many years when they ran the Wednesday Night Sport Drags and I had a car that actually could turn 12s. Of course, you needed a shoe horn to work on the engine bay

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Your thing-a-ma-jig is not allowing the do-hicky to squelch the thing-a-mabob which is why it's making that clankitty-snap sound... just leave it here in the shop and we'll have it running like new in a few years...

 

[Stealth57]

Q- How many Thunderbirds should one own?


42?

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Q- How many Thunderbirds should one own?


42?

A good start.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Not a chance in hell. The closest I'd come to that is fried clams. I used to like those-been so long since I've had 'em, I prolly lost my taste for them.

I fell for fried clams at HoJo's as a kid. HoJo's is gone, but I still like fried clams. They're just difficult to find around here.

 

[GonePlaid]

I fell for fried clams at HoJo's as a kid. HoJo's is gone, but I still like fried clams. They're just difficult to find around here.

Last time I had some was at either Capt. D's or Long John Silver's. OK, but nowhere near as good as HoJo's.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Last time I had some was at either Capt. D's or Long John Silver's. OK, but nowhere near as good as HoJo's.

Ah. I don't tend to eat many fast food places.

 

[GBassNorth]

Ok so, um, do Thunderbirds have anything to do with Chuck Norris and/or the number 42 ?

Ok, let’s break it down a bit, the number 42 is comprised of two numbers - 4 and 2.

As many Thunderbird owners know there are two basic Thunderbird models, the dual pickup model which is called a Thunderbird IV and a single pickup model which is called a Thunderbird II. And there you have it, 42.

Others have already posted the Chuck Norris Tbird photo.

Welcome to the wonderful Tbird world where absolutely everything is connected to our beautiful birds somehow.

 

[GonePlaid]

Ah. I don't tend to eat many fast food places.

Yelp had ~10 places listed in Austin that had fried clams.

 

[Stealth57]

Last time I had some was at either Capt. D's or Long John Silver's. OK, but nowhere near as good as HoJo's.

Captain D's, a great little seafood place...All I remember from my day's in Louisiana were their hush puppies were deep fried cannon balls.

 

[MCF]

Japanese demo of a Lull NRT4

Rest In Peace Mike <3

Such a beautiful Thunderbird.

 

[MCF]

Q- How many Thunderbirds should one own?


42?

Ask Geddy.

 

[RedVee]

Bugger. James Valentine died today, probably a few months older than me, of cancer.
Saxophonist for The Models, and stints in Jo Jo Zep & the Falcons and Absent Friends. More recently on ABC TV & Radio.

The Models were great, another 80s Aussie band from that explosion of talent that came out of the 70s but somehow didn’t get to make the big step overseas like some of their contemporaries did.

This is their biggest hit here, no 1. The album of the same name got to no 3.