Cool car on Egay BUT.....

[Chopped54]

$500k
http://www.mxbid.com/ebayimages/64thunderbolt/DSC08959.JPG http://www.mxbid.com/ebayimages/64thunderbolt/DSC08960.JPG
http://cgi.aol.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2448476806&category=62 30

[Kevin Lee]

I finished going through the brakes and installing the drums back on my Ford banjo last night. I'll be running brake lines for a mostly finished chassis by the end of the week. What kind of flare should I be using to fit the wheel cylinders?

[porknbeaner]

Wrong intake, glass side glass? and bolts didn't have window cranks. Thats just the most obvious.
Nice car though. $500,000 not in my world.

[porknbeaner]

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I finished going through the brakes and installing the drums back on my Ford banjo last night. I'll be running brake lines for a mostly finished chassis by the end of the week. What kind of flare should I be using to fit the wheel cylinders?

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A fender flair (see 1970s)? http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif You're serious right?
A double flair will do.

[Crankshaft Sid]

I wouldn´t give a penny over 400,000! But i´m a cheap bastard.......

[porknbeaner]

Here's a dumb question. Why do they put rearview mirrors in dragsters? http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif

[Smokin Joe]

So you can look back and see if you red lit.
So you can see where the other car is.
So you can pull into the turnoff without hitting the other car.
So you can see how the chutes deployed.
So you can back up from the burnout.
So you can make sure your hair is in place before getting out of the car to talk to Bob Fry on camera.
So you can see how you look when practicing getting in all the sponsors names while waiting in the staging lanes.
Lots of reasons.

[flying clutchman]

i am not totally sure but i think its for the same reason there are still headlights abd blinkers. they have to have them to run in a certain street car class. i could be wrong? anyone else have any idea?

[12packo94s]

i'm pretty sure i remember seeing this car sell at the auction in auburn an few years ago,,,, as i recall it got about that range of $$ !!!!!!!

must be nice to have that kind of capital to burn

[raaf]

nobody bid, k!?!? it's mine.

[TINGLER]

I saw that car a day or so ago.
I think it kicks ass! You all should read the story behind it.

If any of you all want a car like that, I could let loose of my Fairlane......Hell, I would sell it for $50,000. Is that a Bargain or WHAT?
Plus, mine has a FULL set of chrome wheels!.....Not like that $500,000 hoopty. ha ha http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

JT.

[scarylarry]

That is some TALL $$ damn! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

[Wowcars]

Is whats funny, is that you could have bought ALL of the Thunderbolts NEW for that price! No shit. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

[DrJ]

If that car is worth half a mil to some people, what the hell would the Challenger or Challenger II be worth to them?

[Oilcan Harry]

That intake IS correct for THIS engine. This is not a normal 427 wedge, its a one-off factory hemi head on a sideoiler block. It is an F/X model, after all, not a super stocker. This may have made Ford decide to not copy Chrysler's engine but go on and design the 427 SOHC motors with an eye towards high RPM NASCAR racing. Thunderbolts were all hand built and some have diffences in equipment so you have to be carefull about declaring what is and what isn't a Thunderbolt. With "regular" T-bolts hovering around $200-250,000 at auction and this being a terrific restoration of a one-off car I don't think the price is too unreasonable. I' wouldn't pay it but thats a moot point.

[Bruce Lancaster]

Those heads aren't from Ford--Mickey Thompson manufactured aluminum copies of Chrysler early hemi heads for FE Fords, 421 type Pontiac, and I think some other applications. This stuff wasn't in production long, and I don't think I've ever seen an example, but I have a catalog containing these parts and remember them being advertised or mentioned in HRM.