Quick tow vehicles
Gee, all I have to tow with is my
wife's '97F-250HD ext cab with the last of the 460s! Take a stout 460, add the E4OD, and a set of 4.10 posi gears and you have one quick truck! Honestly though, she hated her last car (gutless 90 Grand Marquis) and she really misses her car before that (77Marquis w/460 that had been 'tweaked' and a rear gear change from a 2.40 open to a 3.25 posi) That old land yacht would scream!
My last 'fun' car, built justforthehellofit, was a duplicate of a DARE car I had built up for one of the local PDs a number of years ago... Take a 88 Crown Vic (mine was a 89 Marquis) add a 351W GT-40 equipped engine (from a wrecked 94 Lightning) and add a 8psi Paxton supercharger, a slightly higher stall speed converter, shorty headers (and still through hi-flow catalysts) and a 3.55 posi rear. That DARE car ran a
[email protected] at the local track on police radials. It sure got a load of respect after that! Alas, the new chief didn't like the looks of the square Vic, so they built up a drug-siezed 'Vette instead. More sizzle I guess for the kids. I tried to buy the old Vic but they wouldn't let me have it since the money used to build it up had come from the departments drug siezures. I then built my 89 Marquis to emulate that car. I certainly had fun with blowing away the young punks in thier 'thumper' wanna-be rides, especially when I 'bark' second gear!