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Liked those mid 70's Mopar's drove one briefly with a 440 magnum.

5.0 takes it though.

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Montana used Torino's because that 460 had the highest top end. I've heard that in desolate parts of Canada the Mounties did too for the same reason.
 

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AMC Javelin in the early 70's was Bad Ass.
Lighter for better punch out of the hole and single bubble gum machine for that high top end as well.
 

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South Carolina Highway Patrol was given M5's by BMW in the 90's.

WOW.
 

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You could tally up up all the Pohleece occifer cars ever sold in the states and the Crown Victoria/Caprice Classic combo would blow all the others away combined.

BTW, the Ford 460 is fuckin truck motor. Give me a Mopar Hemi or GM big block with the same gearing as that Torino turd and some Cop is going home empty handed.
 

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AMC Javelin in the early 70's was Bad Ass.
Lighter for better punch out of the hole and single bubble gum machine for that high top end as well.


Musta been fun tryin to stuff a perp in the back seat of one of those Javelins. Not busting you chops on this, just chuckling at 2 dr cruiser.
 

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You could tally up up all the Pohleece occifer cars ever sold in the states and the Crown Victoria/Caprice Classic combo would blow all the others away combined.

BTW, the Ford 460 is fuckin truck motor. Give me a Mopar Hemi or GM big block with the same gearing as that Torino turd and some Cop is going home empty handed.

460 ended up as a truck motor.

The FE (Ford/Edsel) and MEL (Mercury/Edsel/Lincoln) engines were designed before the Mopar wedge & Hemi engines and the Chevy Rat engines and more importantly were thin walled engines. Meaning they could not be overbored to monstrous cubic inches. Ford developed the 385 series of engines in the late 60's to keep up with the fact that engine sizes were getting larger and larger. Fuel prices and insurance knocked the bottom out before the 385 was ever developed to it's full potential. Bob Glidden has a slew of races (retired as the winningest driver in NHRA history, at the time) won behind a 385 series engine. 429 and 460 were engines that were late to the muscle car game, too late in fact. But the 460 made HUGE torque even with choked off heads and manifolds.
 

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