Ford Fairlane Thunderbolt
Sometimes it’s hard to believe that way back, there were some nuts street legal muscle cars, which even by today’s standards were fast (and had the sloppiest handling you can imagine). The Fairlane Thunderbolt was the factory drag car for the Blue Oval back in 1964, which is why the company poured a lot of resources into it, all in the name of embarrassing the competition.
Consumers benefited big time, thanks to the brutal High Rise 427 under the hood. Ford listed output at 425 horsepower, but the reality is it made somewhere between 500 and 600 horsepower (people will fight all day long about dyno measurements on this thing, but let’s just all agree it was powerful). If the driver knew what they were doing, laying down some serious rubber and blowing away just about anything on the quarter mile was second nature in this car.
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