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Buick "Darth Vader" "Bad to the Bone"

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  The Grand National had humble roots beginning in auto-racing. In 1978, because the energy extremity demanded additional svelte platforms, the elephantine 17-and-a-half-foot-long Buick imperial lost a bottom of length and a brace of cylinders. With this everyday base erected on the G- body platform associate degreed an mechanics plan in 1981, the Buick came a significant contestant in NASCAR , with Richard Petty winning the first race of the season — the‘81 Daytona five hundred — in his imperial. The imperial steamrolled the competition. 1981 - 1982 saw Darrell Waltrip skilled worker a imperial to win the Winston Cup steeplechase Championship succeeding.However, the machine swept  the manufacturer’s crown, with a imperial within the winner’s circle in a very gorgeous forty seven out of sixty two races, If that was n’t enough. In 1982, Buick moved  to subsidize on this success and introduced the steeplechase , named for the Winston Cup Championship it had simply won. the first Buick
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1971 Mercury Cougar

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The Mercury catamount could be a plate applied to a various series of vehicles sold-out by Mercury from 1967 to 1997, and once more from 1999 to 2002.   whereas most examples were made as two-door coupes, at numerous times throughout its production life, the catamount was conjointly sold-out as a convertible, four-door sedan, station waggon, and hatchback. During its production life, as was common follow among the Mercury division, the catamount shared a lot of of its underpinnings with a Ford counterpart. At the time of its introduction, it had been based mostly upon the Ford pony . because the pony was downsized and redesigned in 1974, the catamount became {based|based mostly|primarily based mostly} upon the intermediate Mercury Montego (itself based upon the Ford Torino ), changing into the replacement for the Montego in 1977. because the catamount XR7 became the equivalent of the Ford spirit in 1977, the spirit would function the Ford counterpart of the catamount fo
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