............The fastest was the 70 Boss 429; weight 3480 lbs,
429 cubes, 370 hp, < mile in 12.30 at 112 mph..............
Really!
I guess I'd have to believe that. I found my first Tiger in Texas and the
guy didn't want to sell it, but he'd trade if I could find him a good clean
West Coast big block Mustang. This was in about 1987 as the collector car
run-up was really getting going. No way, right? Wrong. I found a (mostly)
#'s matching clean 428 Cobra Jet Mustang with proper shaker hood and bought it
for $1950. Then traded it for the Tiger, after towing it halfway to Texas
from Reno (a story I've promised Terry for Tiger Tracks sometime soon).
So a friend and I test drove the car before buying it. It had been a
little tweaked and had a locker in the pumpkin too. We took it out on this
little two lane road, stopped on this short straight, then I hit it. Didn't
floor it, but tapped the pedal. The car tried very hard to jump over the
apron and into the ditch beyond. The locker made it like a catapult as the
front end would come off the ground and the car would launch in exactly the
direction it faced. We got it halfway down that straight once and always
ended up locking up the brakes to opt out of a towtruck. Just incredible
power.
Oh, and yes, if I'd stuck it in the back yard, I could have sold it as was
for 5 to 10 times that much a year later. And no, this is not a solicitation
for offers to sell real estate, doll collections or anything else (including
cars).
And the Tiger?? Well, it had a little rust.......
Ch
ris Hill
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