Cool! Thanks a lot BMC. It is in a 1966 Thunderbird Landau Edition. BIG car but totally rusted out. The only things really that good is the interior and the engine. The interior is mint BTW if anyone wants some really nice interior parts off of this car give a holler. I have contemplated whether or not the back seat would fit in a Maverick. I think it is probably a bit too wide but it seems like it would be pretty cool. It is sort've a wraparound with a little armrest in the middle that you can pull down.
C probably meant catalyst. In the early 70s, Ford didn't even distingush between the C and the W anywhere on the car. If you had a 351 2v engine, you even had the same engine code in your vin regardless if it was a c or w. They didn't put 351'w' on that emissions sticker until after the C was discontinued. Dave
KilgOre...I would imagine everything but the kitchen sink. The most I can tell you is a 302 stroked to 347, 456 gears, tunnel ram, and nitrous just to name the most abvious. Of course when it's at the track he has his slicks on. I know he has a ton of money in it but it's real hard to get much out of him as specifics. I know it broke into the 9's using the nos and ever since that he seems to be happy with what he accomplihed...hasn't been back to the track since. He's mostly just going to shows and cruis-ins now. Of course with the 456's he can't do any hiway driving but it does great around town. Here's a couple of pics.
Sorry Ray... But I don't call that a 'street car'. You were commenting against a larger engine in a Maverick, well take a 427w and set it up for 9 seconds and it will be far more street friendly than a tunnel ram and 4.56 gears. Especially if you 'cheat' with the squeeze. I bet you could build a truly, honest to goodness, street AND highway 427w and get 9 seconds with squeeze/slicks. Dave
A guy I know has done just that. An '85 Mustang, 427W/ Tremec. Sometimes on hot summer days has cooling problems, needs a bigger radiator. His wife sometimes drives it to work and the grocery store. Talk about "fast food".
I agree 100% Dave. It's way too radical for ME to drive on the streets all the time but in reality, that's what he's doing with it. And I guess different people have different opinions about what's considered a street car. I would say this one would strictly be on the borderline, but then again, that's just my opinion.
I wouldn't call that a street car,but I'm not fast either,Here's what makes a street car to me(besides tags,lights-obvious stuff); runs on pump gas has a heater(it gets cold here) a decent stereo exhaust you can talk over can actually hang a curve at more than 20mph you're not afraid to take the whole family on a trip in it it can drive to the track and back it can get in a traffic jam and not melt down it can run at least 60mph for long periods of time it doesn't need the valves adjusted every 30 miles and it could go on,hey the fastest I've been was mid 12's so I know I'm not fast but it's a street car.
Back on the original thread; My feeling is the car is not a 1966. It would indeed be a rare car with a 351w engine because all reference info I have from repair manuels, to specific performance, shows this engine's use begining 3 years later in 1969. The C could mean the engine was still built in the Cleveland plant in those early years. FORD did all kinds of things and still does! The present MOD motors are built in two different plants, and STILL they fool around with different running changes between the two plants, these engine are made in, to the point you can't tell what you have until they are taken apart. One plant puts out it's engine with 9 bolt hole crank and the other a 6 hole crank flange. Both are a 4.6L engine even with a different numbers of hold down bolts for the valve covers.
Bluegrass, I have to disagree with you there. Like Mavaholic said, check out the master cylinder. It's definitely a 66 single reservoir master cylinder. Nobody in their right mind would put that type of cylinder on a later model car. The engine compartment has all the features of a 66...except the engine. It is certainly a later model engine.
