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Old 04-18-2010, 03:22 PM   #3
Rory McNeil
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Default Re: Oddball Muscle Cars

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Originally Posted by hemicop View Post
Don't know if it's been posted before--when I lived in Roswell N.M. a friend had a '69 Falcon 429SCJ-4-spd. car. He said he ordered it locally with the usual deletes, rubber mat & bench seat. He claims he was told Ford had this stuffed in their order books way in the back as a "lightweight" version of a Torino for those that wanted to race that body style but didn't want all the extras that added weight & bring it down in class. I think it was something like D/S & ran pretty well, but was one rattlely SOB.
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Actually, it would have been a 1970 Falcon, which looked like the all new 70 Torino, except the Falcon was a bare bones 2 door sedan, rather than the hardtop. They did build a few, but I doubt that many are still around now.
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