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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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1969 Ford Mustang Mach 1 GT 428 Cobra Jet

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Nineteensixtynine was the benchmark year for Ford Mustang in its proliferation of performance names and engines.   No less than 6 manufacturing plant performance pony models were out there (GT, Boss 302, Boss 429, Shelby GT350, Shelby GT500 and the Mach One). Additionally, seven variations of V-8s were out there within the '69–'70 models; most of those additionally available in the new Ernst Mach one. Due to the Mach 1's success, the GT model was discontinued when 1969 following poor sales of five,396 units - versus the 72,458 sales for the Mach one. The Mustang would not wear the "GT" badge once more till 1982. The Mach one package was solely out there in the 'SportsRoof' body style (previously called the ' Fastback '); ne'er on the machine or convertible. Many resto-mod visual conversions have since been performed by house owners and enthusiasts, but area unit not Ernst Mach 1's by VIN code. The Mach 1's original dir
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