427 Ford T-Bolt

Dan Fichers T-Bolt at Fontana Raceway, So-California.NHRA Heritage Series 2008

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• Ford
• 427
• T-Bolt
• Dan
• Ficher
• Drag
• Racing
• burnout

[smettas]

who won the race?t-bolt or the blue one?

[dano64bolt]

It was qualifying but I did if it matters !

[GetsumJ]

IHRA Record holder for many years

[68bobba]

@qazeaz weren,t they a factory drag ,like the Hemi darts and Cudas?...fastest from the factory?...try the 68 Hemi dart....10.5 s over 1/4 mile

[raginroadrunner]

@qazeaz .In 1964 whe these cars came out, NHRA limited them to "7" wide street slicks which had two groves running around the tire about 3/16ths of an inch in width. Tires back them were awful compared to today. 7" slicks would not come close to holding these engines. I had two of them and YES..I was there.

[winged70bbody2]

@raginroadrunner ..yet your name is roadrunner..lovin it sir!

[dodgemaxwedge]

@390galaxie I was @ the tracks back in 1964 in michigan. Ford also produced a few Black Thunderbolts. My folks ran Mopar and one of their friends had a Black 427 Thunderbolt. All in all, the 426, 427 and the 409 and the 421's were the ones to watch. Love the Detroit Iron from back in the day, great stuff.

[dallascbys12]

nice cam :)

[64fairlane305]

@qazeaz 11.40`s? Thunderbolts ran pure +600hp racing-enegines, fastest quartermile:  \watch?v=uzkEviShBUw

[raginroadrunner]

@crownv80 ..correct...the hardtops buckled under acceleration..I have a 67 2 door post....some of the guys fashioned a seat belt or a piece of rope boltedt to the left door upper hinge area, to hook their left arm through to hold onto during the launch... these cars were vicious and yet never won may national events.....the cylinder heads were badly designed and the big hemi's would get them on the top end..

[raginroadrunner]

@haak60 ...we had a 67 from the same outfit....high riser, steel crank side oiler....great car...ran 10 flats in Nebraska and Eastern Colorado....went in the military and never saw the car again until 18 years later ,setting in a back yard somewhere in Denver completely stripped...original owners both dead by this time and nothing more was known..

[raginroadrunner]

64 Galaxies did NOT have the same engine...the Galaxies were low risers, and featured a cast iron crank, with badly flowing heads and the camshafts sucked along with a rocker arm assembly that looked like something out of a John Deere tractor....the T bolts had high riser engines , steel cranks and bad heads...the 427 had a great bottom end but the rest of the engine was junk...how do I know this..."I was there and had three of them...that's how...