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Brett6269 · Post by **Brett6269** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 2:10 am

Any body know were you can get fiberglass teardrop scoops like they had on the old thunderbolts and litewieght galaxies. I think it would be awsome on a 67 to 72 ford truck!!

brett

68F250 · Post by **68F250** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 11:34 pm

Try a Google search on Thunderbolt hood scoop.

Hey whatever happened to Keith's Torino scoop?

Post by **FORDification** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 12:05 am

The hood is 98% stripped and ready to paint.

rjewkes · Post by **rjewkes** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 10:40 am

I've heard the mustang scoop off of a stang with a 427 in it would work with slight modification.

trukcrazy · Post by **trukcrazy** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 11:10 am

Here is one. http://www.up22.com/scoopw1.htm#SC-101

trukcrazy · Post by **trukcrazy** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 11:25 am

Here's one more. http://www.carhoods.com/WhereTheWildRidesBegin.htm

68F250 · Post by **68F250** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 11:21 pm

Lookin' good Keith, lookin' good.

rjewkes wrote:I've heard the mustang scoop off of a stang with a 427 in it would work with slight modification.

Umm, a 427 never came in a stang. Maybe you're thinkin' Boss 429?

rjewkes · Post by **rjewkes** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 12:18 am

I always get those mixed up.

68F250 · Post by **68F250** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 12:26 am

427, 429, whatever it takes.

Joe Kriston · Post by **Joe Kriston** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 1:56 am

Barry,I remember as a kid building a model of 'Ohio' George Montgomery's "Malco Gasser"...It was a '66 'Stang fastback with a 427 SOHC motor and a teardrop hoodscoop...It may have been a 'one of a kind'....

Brett,I agree,I think a teardrop scoop would look awesome...

68F250 · Post by **68F250** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 3:05 am

Ok Joe, I meant something you or I could buy off the showroom floor.

But you're right, Ford supplied the fiberglass body but I thought it was a '67. The Ohio George story is interesting. He was already running a blown 427 Cammer in his '33 Willys. But the power output was catching up with the ol' coupe's aerodynamics which was later confirmed in Ford's wind tunnel. My understanding is, he modified and extended the gasser's frame while Ford threw in the slick fiberglass body and the Malco Gasser Mustang was born.

trukcrazy · Post by **trukcrazy** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 3:29 am

Here's one more.
http://www.jcwhitney.com/autoparts/Prod ... 38/c-10101

Joe Kriston · Post by **Joe Kriston** » Sat Dec 16, 2006 3:01 am

What a cool pic,Barry...Yeah,I don't think you could get one of those 'stangs off the showroom floor,...and the wheelie bars probably would have been an additional option...Back in the day I thought the Malco Gasser was the baddest-lookin' sumbitch on the dragstrip...

68F250 · Post by **68F250** » Sat Dec 16, 2006 1:06 pm

Nope, no production 427's in the Mustang. Ford went so far as to key up a W code option for the '68 'Stang but none were ever built according to Kevin Marti VIN records. Don't trust a book, research it with some MCA judges and the Mustang & Shelby registrys. NHRA racing classifications for the Mustang show the 390 as the biggest engine until the 428CJ.

There were a few '65 and '66 Mustang race cars modified under contract by Dearborn Steel Tubing. Some received 427 wedge engines but most got the SOHC version. Those don't count, not factory production.

Ford stuffed the 427 mostly in the Galaxie and Fairlane to get the production #'s for sanctioned racing. I believe the list goes like this:

63-67 full size Ford

63-64 full size Mercury

64 Fairlane Thunderbolt, 64 Comet AFX

66-67 Fairlane

67-67 Comet

65-67 Shelby Cobra

68 Cougar GTE

I don't know if you can count the '67 Shelby GT500 Super Snake as it was a one-off Shelby build:

http://www.nvsaac.com/gallery/1967_shelby_gt500_18.htm

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