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Ford Performance Clinic


https://www.kijiji.ca/v-view-details.html?adId=1651731243

 

Would love to have in my garage.



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Wow! I wonder where that's been hiding all these years?

 

 

 



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My friend Charlie is a drag racer from decades back. He knows and has run against Barrie Poole. Barrie used to run a couple of candy-striped Mustangs, a '68 2+2 & a '69 coupe. He also ran a '69 Mercury Montego MX convertible with a 428 SCJ, the convertible because of the handicap in class racing. Many decades ago (40?!) I saw for sale in a London Autotrader a Montego matching that description. Those cars are rare to begin with, SW Ontario, coulda been... What that provenance would bring to the crazed big-named auctions nowadays. $$$$

Here's Charlie's 1971 Torino drag car powered by a 428 FE (not the 429) when he brought it out occasionally to our weekly club get togethers. Circa 2006.

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That is not Charlie, but Peter standing by the car, who has since had a stroke & is confined to a wheelchair.

 

Look closely at the cars in  the background in the pic below from the 1970 Mercury Meteor brochure. With a quicky paint job they could have been Barrie's cars. Probably taken at a Performance Clinic.

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In garage, 296 cid inline six & TH350...

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Saw that rig at Rankin Ford in the summer of 1970. Was also a 'Boss' Mustang there . I think the  'Boss' might have been Rankins' competitive wheels at the time.

Dale 



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It is very cool, but lord those cars have a face only a mother could love

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Gillis wrote:

It is very cool, but lord those cars have a face only a mother could love


 Subjective.  I've always liked the '70-'71 Cyclone, and I'm not a mother (though perhaps I've been called that at times with another word after it...).



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I like the look of the Cyclones as well. I miss my 71 Ford LTD too. I always keep an eye out for one. But I like them. Even those Torinos are sharp looking.

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Had a 70 Ranchero back in the day 351 Cleveland 4V. Went like stink but a total rust bucket. Sported the Torino front clip. Even had a fake hood scoop but no hide away headlights. Amazing what you could get for a few hundred dollars back in the late 70s.

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If memory serves me, I read somewhere, probably in the "old Autos" newspaper, there's some Pontiac influence on the ford noses of that era. Due to John Delorean maybe?



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Found the article with the reference to Pontiac styling on the ford nose.pontiac montego 001.JPGpontiac montego 004.JPG



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74 miles........a brand new car.


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Cheviac wrote:

Found the article with the reference to Pontiac styling on the ford nose.


 Thanks for posting that.  Very interesting.  No wonder I like the styling!



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