56 Thunderbird came with a 292? 312? ummm Hemi!! PICS

[8WHEELER]

Do to a few PM's, I will post the pics............... Brock is it a waste  ............. sorry to those who cared
I never said no birds ever came without or with a Hemi....... just posted the only one I know, thought
it was interesting as a driver car.

This car did NOT come with a Hemi stock, the headers were not stock either......

[8WHEELER]

For 69 500, thanks for the interest 

Dan

[tan top]

best thunderbird i have ever see wonder if that is somebody's matching # motor , their looking for ........

[Brock Samson]

some few thunderbirds actually did come stock with chrysler V-8 engines ya' know..
but yeah that's cool for sure...

[BigBlackDodge]

Someone posted a story about a t-bird with a 'factory' hemi a while back. Something about ford needing more power to race the corvettes?


BBD

[tan top]

some few thunderbirds actually did come stock with chrysler V-8 engines ya' know..
but yeah that's cool for sure...

Someone posted a story about a t-bird with a 'factory' hemi a while back. Something about ford needing more power to race the corvettes?


BBD

  never new this stuff guys    or i can't remember reading about it    ..........    

[69_500]

I believe that there was recently one of the "HEMI" T-birds for sale on Ebay. couldn't have been more than a few months ago.

[8WHEELER]

some few thunderbirds actually did come stock with chrysler V-8 engines ya' know..

I did not know they came with a Hemi, ok,  this is not a race car.

[69_500]

Ah man don't take the photo's down. I like them.

[Nacho-RT74]

yeah, plus I reposted on another board using the link

[Troy]

Um, I seriously doubt that the car in the pictures came with that engine originally.

I was trying to find some mention of Ford ever using a Hemi in a Thunderbird (since no one posted any links). I didn't find anything but I did find this:

Vega$
Dan Tanna - Private Eye cruised the apparently extensive streets of Las Vegas in a Corvette "devil red"  1957 T-Bird setting the fashion for having a continental Kit on a '57.  In fact he drove the same section of street multiple times in the same "shot" just watch the rear projection repeating whilst he speaks on his "Car telephone" (whilst driving a convertible?)
Pilot + 68 episodes were  made, Dan Tanna was played By Robert Urich, Tony Curtis played his employer the Owner of the Desert Inn.
Show was reputedly one of the most stylish Detective series, it certainly had an impressive list of Guest Stars, Robert Urich later resurrected the role in Spenser for Hire.
2 cars were actually used in the filming, a "Show" car for close ups and a "Stunt" Car  fitted with a Police Chrysler engine and locking front wheels for the Tire screeching scenes.
At the end of filming the cars were painted Aqua so they could be used in the 1980 Film remake of Breathless.

Troy

[Brock Samson]

yeah, i can't find the chrysler engined t-bird either,.. I do remember it about three or four mos ago, and i thought it was posted here...
so i went to various search functions outside without result, I'll keep trying, it'll turn up..   

[Nacho-RT74]

whatever but I want the pics back... was my hostagge link LOL

[Brock Samson]

 So this thread isn't a total waste:

found this cool site while lookin for the elusive chysler hemi engined T-bird...
  http://www.socalsaac.org/
   



on a somewhat related subject:
  Sunbeam tigers are a  car I've concidered and lusted after for many decades now..
Amyhow, before being scooped up by ford, who dropped their 289 into them, were powered by Chyslers...
for all of like 6 Mos... they go like the dickens and have roll up windows and better fit and finish then most sports cars of the period.
  I know you guys don't care, but when your an old guy like me who grew up on the west coast and went to sports car races in the early '60s,..   

[8WHEELER]

whatever but I want the pics back... was my hostagge link LOL

Nope its cool, and a couple other people as well, like 69 500.

I find it interesting, that this old news thread, gets more posts after no pics   

Dan

[472 R/T SE]

Thanks for reposting the pix Dan.    I thought the 200's, 300 displacement Hemis all had distributors in the rear.    The oil filter's location is puzzling.  Doesn't look like an external set up?

Thanks to Brock tho, this thread was saved. 

[Charger_Fan]

Here's the other Hemi T-bird thread; http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,34473.0.html

I can't help but assume that the yellow one pictured above would have some overheating issues, due to the dinky fan & no shroud. Still cool to see, though.

[69_500]

I was almost sure that I had seen on posted on Ebay for sale a few months back too. I tried to look on there, but came up empty. I thought I had it saved as an item I was watching, but not sure how long it saves those watches after the auction ends.

[BigBlackDodge]

Um, I seriously doubt that the car in the pictures came with that engine originally.

I was trying to find some mention of Ford ever using a Hemi in a Thunderbird (since no one posted any links). I didn't find anything but I did find this:

Vega$
Dan Tanna - Private Eye cruised the apparently extensive streets of Las Vegas in a Corvette "devil red"  1957 T-Bird setting the fashion for having a continental Kit on a '57.  In fact he drove the same section of street multiple times in the same "shot" just watch the rear projection repeating whilst he speaks on his "Car telephone" (whilst driving a convertible?)
Pilot + 68 episodes were  made, Dan Tanna was played By Robert Urich, Tony Curtis played his employer the Owner of the Desert Inn.
Show was reputedly one of the most stylish Detective series, it certainly had an impressive list of Guest Stars, Robert Urich later resurrected the role in Spenser for Hire.
2 cars were actually used in the filming, a "Show" car for close ups and a "Stunt" Car  fitted with a Police Chrysler engine and locking front wheels for the Tire screeching scenes.
At the end of filming the cars were painted Aqua so they could be used in the 1980 Film remake of Breathless.

Troy

Here we  go...........

http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,34473.0.html


BBD

[Brock Samson]

Thanks for all the pictures, and finding that elusive link..

I didn't mean this post was a total waste I meant My 20 + minutes of looking for the above link and on the internet for the info about Chrysler Hemi T-Birds was a total waste...

Sorry Dan your pics are definalty Cool..

I wonder what those Specs. were?.   

[Troy]

Um, I seriously doubt that the car in the pictures came with that engine originally.

I was trying to find some mention of Ford ever using a Hemi in a Thunderbird (since no one posted any links). I didn't find anything but I did find this:

Vega$
Dan Tanna - Private Eye cruised the apparently extensive streets of Las Vegas in a Corvette "devil red"  1957 T-Bird setting the fashion for having a continental Kit on a '57.  In fact he drove the same section of street multiple times in the same "shot" just watch the rear projection repeating whilst he speaks on his "Car telephone" (whilst driving a convertible?)
Pilot + 68 episodes were  made, Dan Tanna was played By Robert Urich, Tony Curtis played his employer the Owner of the Desert Inn.
Show was reputedly one of the most stylish Detective series, it certainly had an impressive list of Guest Stars, Robert Urich later resurrected the role in Spenser for Hire.
2 cars were actually used in the filming, a "Show" car for close ups and a "Stunt" Car  fitted with a Police Chrysler engine and locking front wheels for the Tire screeching scenes.
At the end of filming the cars were painted Aqua so they could be used in the 1980 Film remake of Breathless.

Troy

Here we  go...........

http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,34473.0.html


BBD

Yeah, I saw that. Well, not when I searched earlier. But any way, look closely at the engines. The one in this thread has an engine that didn't exist when the car was built so that's why I made the first comment.

Troy