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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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1965-70 Dodge Coronet

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  1965–67 The Coronet reappeared for the 1965 model year because the intermediate sized B-body employing a 117-inch distance. For 1965, Dodge sold-out slightly over 209,000 units, creating the Coronet the foremost widespread model sold-out by Dodge that year. Trim levels ab initio were base Coronet together with a Deluxe version, Coronet 440 and Coronet five hundred. The base Coronet and Deluxe were obtainable as two-door sedans, four-door sedans and station wagons. For 1965 solely, Dodge conjointly sold-out solely one hundred and one units of a changed distance version of the bottom Coronet two-door sedan and 440 motorcar used for NHRA drag sport. The model called A990 came with a sport version of the 426 Hemi engine. The automotive A990 was stripped of all options and enclosed base bucket seats from Dodge's truck-van line of vehicles. The altered distance eventually became usually called Funny Cars as a result of their stretched front clips. Front seat belts and
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