Top ten all american sports cars

>>>Thunderbird
>>
>>1955 thru 1957 ONLY- but good catch, the rest of us forgot it
>>completely.
>
>
> How about 2002-2005? They were two seat convertibles with a V-8.

D'oh. Yes, although for some reason I've never been able to think of
them as "real" T-birds. And I don't know why, really.

>
> How about the Buick Reatta? And the Chrylser TC?
>

I still don't think front-drives should be included personally.

On Aug 8, 10:58 am, Steve > wrote:
> >>>Thunderbird
>
> >>1955 thru 1957 ONLY- but good catch, the rest of us forgot it
> >>completely.
>
> > How about 2002-2005? They were two seat convertibles with a V-8.
>
> D'oh. Yes, although for some reason I've never been able to think of
> them as "real" T-birds. And I don't know why, really.

Because there was no stickshift option, and no high-performance
options at all.

True story; at the time the "new" bird was introduced, SWMBO was
working for Ford as an internal auditor. She was invited to some roll-
out presentation, apparently to pump up the enthusiasm of Ford
employees for their new products. She apparently ended up chatting
with some powertrain engineer type and asked him if there were any
plans down the road to introduce a SVT version, she suggested maybe a
supercharged version as a homage to the Paxton/McCulloch equipped
'57s. The engineer deferred answering the first part of the question
and expressed skepticism that Ford had ever made a supercharged T-
bird. I hope that that wasn't a *senior* powertrain engineer...

nate

(woulda loved to have been there)

As far back as 1957, Ford offered Supercharged Thundrbird cars for
sale.McCulloch centrifical supercharger, 300 Horsepower.Even I knew
that.
Do you remember those old Jiggs and Maggie comic strips? Back in the
1950s, Ford used to have some great big Jiggs poster boards hanging
around in their factories.The Jiggs poster boards said, Sure, And
Quality Counts!
cuhulin

On Aug 8, 11:47 am, wrote:
> As far back as 1957, Ford offered Supercharged Thundrbird cars for
> sale.McCulloch centrifical supercharger, 300 Horsepower.Even I knew
> that.

So did I, simply because I used to have a Studebaker Golden Hawk, so
it was good to know what parts interchanged with more common makes,
e.g. if I saw a good deal on a "Ford Thunderbird supercharger kit" I
knew that I could use the blower on a Studebaker

> Do you remember those old Jiggs and Maggie comic strips? Back in the
> 1950s, Ford used to have some great big Jiggs poster boards hanging
> around in their factories.The Jiggs poster boards said, Sure, And
> Quality Counts!
> cuhulin

I may like old cars, but no, there's no chance in heck of me
remembering that. The chronology doesn't work

nate

World War Two Jeeps are also sort of known as the All American Wonder.I
nominate those Jeeps as ''Sports Cars''.
There is (or used to be) a World War Two Jeep in the Smithsonian Museum.

www.devilfinder.com Brian's Military Jeeps
cuhulin

N8N wrote:
The engineer deferred answering the first part of the question
> and expressed skepticism that Ford had ever made a supercharged T-
> bird. I hope that that wasn't a *senior* powertrain engineer...
>

Oh geez. I could envision similar comments from engineers at Chrysler
following the mass exodus after the Diamler fuc^H^H^H^ takeover. But I
think a little pocket of old-timers (or at least interested and
knowledgable new-timers) survived somewhere deep in there. The big
question now will be whether Nardelli runs *them* away :-(

Space Shuttle Endeavor lifted off this afternoon.Now, that's a Real
''Sports Car''.
cuhulin

Steve wrote:
> N8N wrote:
> The engineer deferred answering the first part of the question
>> and expressed skepticism that Ford had ever made a supercharged T-
>> bird. I hope that that wasn't a *senior* powertrain engineer...
>>
>
> Oh geez. I could envision similar comments from engineers at Chrysler
> following the mass exodus after the Diamler fuc^H^H^H^ takeover. But I
> think a little pocket of old-timers (or at least interested and
> knowledgable new-timers) survived somewhere deep in there. The big
> question now will be whether Nardelli runs *them* away :-(

hey, at least Chrysler brought out some RWD cars after MB took them
over. I almost bought a Magnum or a Charger when I was family car
shopping. I woulda even bought a V6. We ended up with the Subaru
Legacy Wagon tho, mostly because of cost, and partly because it had a
stick, and partly because it was the first family car we could both
agree on.

Ray

On Aug 8, 11:23 am, N8N > wrote:

> The engineer deferred answering the first part of the question
> and expressed skepticism that Ford had ever made a supercharged T-
> bird. I hope that that wasn't a *senior* powertrain engineer...

Ever? He also forgot the Thunderbird Super Coupe 1989-1995?

Steve Wrote:
> news wrote:
> You're quite right, although I would argue that there is a more widely
> bounded and accepted definition of "sports car" than there is of
> "muscle
> car." And being a 2-seater is pretty central to the definition.
Odd...but the definition listed above says USUALLY a 2-seater. That's
not "central to the definition." A 2+2 can be a sports car as well.


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