Oddball Muscle Cars

hemicop · 04-18-2010, 10:51 AM

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.
Another car I know existed that was REALLY weird was from Randall AMC (home of the 401 Gremlin) was a 401 PACER!

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Tom Iverson, the guy responsible at Ranadll AMC for installing 401in the Gremlin told me they actually had several requests for them. Although they were a tight fit a few (he couldn't remember how many) were built but they were so butt-ugly they never caught on. He said he did hear a rumor a few factory 360 Pacers were built.

04-18-2010, 10:51 AM	#11
hemicop Junior Member Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 63 Likes: 0 Liked 2 Times in 2 Posts	Re: Oddball Muscle Cars 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. Another car I know existed that was REALLY weird was from Randall AMC (home of the 401 Gremlin) was a 401 PACER!. Tom Iverson, the guy responsible at Ranadll AMC for installing 401in the Gremlin told me they actually had several requests for them. Although they were a tight fit a few (he couldn't remember how many) were built but they were so butt-ugly they never caught on. He said he did hear a rumor a few factory 360 Pacers were built.