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Anyone wanna guess what this will go for?
Absolutely jack squat. There's no such thing as a Daytona Thunderbird. All he did was stick a Motorsports bodykit onto a plain V6 car. Somebody might buy it for the kit, but other then the wing, I think it's hideous.
Already being covered in this link...
http://www.foxtbirdcougarforums.com/showthread.php?t=12906
silver and grey on red:yuck: that wing:yuck: the grill :yuck: i wouldn't give a dollar for that car if i had to drive it!
Eric,
I've got a shot at just the nose piece and side skirts of that kit for $100. Think anybody would buy re-pops?
Dude, I wish my car looked that good! :rolleyes:
The only part of the kit that i am not particularly fond of is the Grill. I would love to have a kit like that for my 88.
Well...it seems to be a polarizing grille, judging by the comments...but I think it's an important enough part of aero-'Bird history to recreate if you have the means to do so. I'd say go for it. Even at $100 you're not out much anyway.
Depending on the price, i would probably buy one. Just becasue I have never seen one... I have not decided if I like it or not, or even if it would ever end up on the 83 if I even did get my hands on. Interesting piece...
im sick and tired of hearing that thing called a nascar body kit or a daytona body kit. yes its a body kit... but i just watched a 1986 nascar race on espn classics and that thing looks NOTHING like them. thats just a alright looking kit... not my taste, and i dont think anyone here would put it on thier cars either....
Personally, I think it looks like the F in Fila. That is what I first though When I saw it.
:iagree:
It does lok like an F for Fila, but that fugly ass grill isn't goin on my car. The wing and skirts maybe but not the grill
I'm game for side skirts if they will fit an 88 :D
If I still had my '86 I'd buy one.
Like me grandpappy used to say, "Two weechy zone."
It's missing the rear apr0ns. I can't stand in-complete its. I particularly like the grill, and don't like the wing much.
The grill aint broke?
Realy?
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Realy?
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1964 Sunbeam Tiger Harrington LeMans coupe & 1956 Ford Thunderbird Daytona
The massive Ford-powered exhibition run featured historic racers from NASCAR, Formula 1, Model T era cars, and these two unique entrants. In the foreground is a rare Le Mans race-prepared Sunbeam Tiger, with de-finned fastback bodywork like that of the Harrington LeMans Alpines. Behind it is a 1956 Thunderbird Daytona stock car built by DePaolo Engineering of Long Beach. The frame was lightened, an aluminum tonneau cover installed along with a short windshield.
well if they used them in nascar they at least made 500 production cars, so i guess the only daytona t-bird was in 56. (prolly longer than that, not produced but raced)
No 83-88 Daytona Thunderbird :P :hick:
Of course there was Thunderbird's racing AT Daytona, I recall they did so well that we now have what's called "restrictor plates"...
Well you didn't say that the first time. :D
I just figured it was a dealer installed package like whats on the MN12 cougar. Like the bostonian........
Heh, "A BAST form the PAST"
Maybe a from the past anyway...
I bought an '84 TC about 3 years ago (busted up no-title car) to pull the engine from, it had the side skirts but nothing else of the rest of the kit, which I thought was odd. In fact it didn't even look like any of the other parts had ever been on the car.
Looking at the wheels, they look to either be clip on plastic bullshiznit or 5 lug?
.:iagree: .it's not my style but I remember the first time I saw a Fox Bird with that kit on it I thought it really degraded the looks.
Sad part is, somebody is actually going to believe it is something "special" by calling it a Daytona.
Whew....nobody fell for the "Daytona" hype.
Not 1 bid.
I personaly like the grill and all. It makes it stand out from the crowd.
Uh, those are hubcaps, obviously.
actually your right. after bill elliot ran a lap time equivilant of 213mph AVERAGE ( meaning he was going faster than 213 on the back stretch abd having to slow down in the corners) they had to slow the cars down. but in the mid 90's is when the restrictor plate really made a home on the big tracks like daytona and talledega. take pride in knowing at the time that bill elliot caused nascar to put restrictor plates on our aerobirds he was running a stock hood (the frame work was gutted) a stock roof and rear window and trunk lid. everything else was hand fabricated but our green houses hoods and trunk lids is what set the speed record at talladega and daytona.
our little community of aerobirds are the reason for restrictor plates. (one of the things i love about my car) i mean havnt you ever noticed how squirly you get when passsing a big rig on the interstate?
Actually the restrictor plates were implemented cause Bobby Allison took down a huge chunk of the fence at Daytona cause his non-aero Buick couldn't fly once it got airborne at 200+ MPH...
im not callin bullshiznit here, but why hasnt anyone in nascar broken the track record? i think it might have been possibly both that made them put restrictor plates on.