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Originally Posted by goinbroke2
Friend had a new 76 grand marquis/460 when I was a kid and took me for a drive. Stopped and torqued it up then floored it. Shoved me back in the seat and held me there until he let off at 120mph. I fell in love with it right then, I was 12 or so. Looking back it probably took a mile or two, but it was awesome at the time.
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It's all relative, I suppose. A few years before that, I drove a 66 Catalina with just a 389 2 bbl. if power braked as you describe, it (and many similar cars) would smoke the tires until they blew up. The first round of smog motored (such as that Marquis) cars were terrible.