Good Question, Theo.
It is interesting to recall some history. In the early days of the
T-Bird, and the Corvette, none were really "sports cars". Ford insisted
it was a "personal car" with bench seats, and Chevy had their mighty
small block 6 and 2 spd auto in it. Hardly competitive.
Some 50 years later, the Corvette has really competitive models, and my
50th anniversary T-Bird is built upon the Jaguar V-8 engine and chassis
(although Ford never seems to mention it).
Now consider the Alpine S series, It emulated, some 9 years later, the
body design of the T-Bird. In 1964-5 the Tiger was created, with a Ford
engine, as well as strongly T-Bird lines. More competitive than any
Thunderbird, but a clear homage in body style.
The "mixed signals" coming from the T not S pics, including the racy
aluminum hood and the old #74 Alpine championed by Don Sessler:
http://www.conceptcarz.com/vehicle/chassisNum.aspx?carID=12466&iDNumID=3638
is a homage to what!
Certainly Shelby gets his flag flown, without any connection to the
T-Bird whatsoever. Knowing his history, it is doubtful he ever owned one.
Sure took up a lot of the list bandwidth, but it was fun.
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Steve Laifman
Editor - TigersUnited.com
<http://www.TigersUnited.com>
THEO SMIT wrote:
> Would it eat Alpines _and_ Tigers?
>
> ;)
>
> Theo
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