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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 Torino Talladega

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  The Ford metropolis Talladega could be a muscle automotive that was created by Ford solely throughout the primary few weeks of 1969.   Ford's Talladega was named when the Talladega Superspeedway raceway in Alabama , that additionally created its debut in 1969 . The Ford Talladega was a special, a lot of mechanics version of the Ford metropolis / Fairlane elapid. it absolutely was created specifically to form Ford even a lot of competitive in NASCAR stock auto racing, and it absolutely was oversubscribed to the general public solely as a result of homologation rules needed a definite minimum variety of cars (500 in 1969) be created and created on the market available to the general public. it's believed that a complete of 754 Talladegas could are designed, though the Talladega/Spoiler written record will solely account for a most of 750. This variety includes all prototypes, pilot cars, and production cars designed, and a special post-production automotive t
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