0A38J133469
Editor Note: On July 15, 2017 Paul wrote to confirm the car was actually in New Zealand and currently for sale for an asking price of $32,000. Pictures and a description of the car from trademe.co.nz are shown below.
Paul writes:
This car is for sale in New Zealand at present, see
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=1357687279
Love it, wish I had the money and know how to do it justice. Regards, Paul
Paul writes:
This car is for sale in New Zealand at present, see
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=1357687279
Love it, wish I had the money and know how to do it justice. Regards, Paul
2015 Editor note: This car was last known to exist in Conroe, TX and has rumored to have since moved to New Zealand. If you have any additional information about this vehicle please contact us with the MAIL button in the top left corner.
Description
2 dr H/T, fastback twister special. Only 90 built...23 known to still exist. Originally used as a street/strip...now strip only-but restorable. Not cut up-but slightly modified. 505 cu inch BB Ford engine, roller cam, Crower billet rods, cam and valve train. Ferria ss valves, tunnel ram 2:660's. Body is straight with just a few dings...no rust.
History
Only 90 of these cars were made to commemorate Kansas Dealerships hence the "Twister Special". Good documentation and build sheet.
Recent Competition History
Best special interest local shows many trophies in bracket 2. Runs straight and pulls through lights.
Performance Data
On the torinocobra forums suede57ford adds:
I remember that car well. I actually painted that car when I was in High School in 1987. It was an Amarillo car. Some one told me where it was sitting a few blocks down from my buddies '71 Fastback. I showed up in my maroon '70 Torino w/460 one afternoon when he had the garage door open. He noticed the paint on my Torino, which was very high quality for the era, and asked what I would charge to paint his. It was my first paint job at my new shop, while I was still in high school. My dad helped me on it every evening and it came out really nice.
The owner had managed to save the stripes off the sides. He had no idea what they meant and nether did we at the time (I had just parted out a nice Type N/M just for the hood and tach earlier that year too). After we got the paint finished, he asked if we could paint the unique stripes back on. My father handmade templates and we actually painted the Twister stripes back on. If he would not have asked us to try reproducing the stripes, the car would have never got them back on and it would have ended up being just another bracket car. Finally we realized it was a Twister, but as at the time in the late eighties it wasn't a big deal.
The owner was only interested in racing it and actually was going to have the car tubbed out in '87. The local shop that specialized in back-halfing cars at that time refused to cut that car up. The owner ended up making a 10" rear tire fit. I rolled the rear fender lip and moved the front edge of the rocker up an inch to clear the tall rear tire.
The car had a perfect body and decent original paint when it first came to me. No rust anywhere. The guy kept modifying the car , but finally had realized it was not wise to cut up the factory stuff. He had me paint an extra hood with a snorkel scoop for him so his shaker hood did not get cut.
The car was really fast as a street car. On its first pass at Amarillo Dragway it left black marks the entire length of the track with polyglass tires. It had a roller cammed 460/C6 at that time. Amazingly fast street car.
I should have tried to buy the car when he first wanted to sell it. I was going to college, and painting cars on weekends/summers to pay for school, so the timing was not right for my me. I ended up selling my Pro Street '70 GT my last year at Texas Tech in order to finish engineering school as well. By the time I tried tracking the Twister down, he had moved from Amarillo and the car was already gone.
Too bad I couldn't have ended up with it. I never found the on line add until the car had already been sold.
That car left major impression me.
2 dr H/T, fastback twister special. Only 90 built...23 known to still exist. Originally used as a street/strip...now strip only-but restorable. Not cut up-but slightly modified. 505 cu inch BB Ford engine, roller cam, Crower billet rods, cam and valve train. Ferria ss valves, tunnel ram 2:660's. Body is straight with just a few dings...no rust.
History
Only 90 of these cars were made to commemorate Kansas Dealerships hence the "Twister Special". Good documentation and build sheet.
Recent Competition History
Best special interest local shows many trophies in bracket 2. Runs straight and pulls through lights.
Performance Data
- Class: bracket
- Weight: 3675 lbs
- 60 Foot Time: 1.67 sec
- 1/8 Mile Time: 6.7 sec 1/8 Mile Speed: 100 mph
- 1/4 Mile Time: 10.48 sec 1/4 Mile Speed: 125 mph
- Track: Amarillo/Lubbock, TX
- Engine Builder: self
- Manufacturer: Ford 460 bored and stroked
- Type: V8
- Displacement: 505
- Horsepower: est 800
- Induction: 2 4bbl Holley 660 center squirt wyand TR
- Heads: dovec ported
- Block: dovea
- Main Caps: 4 bolt
- Crankshaft: cast offset ground
- Connecting Rods: crower billet 6.830 "
- Pistons: arias
- Camshaft: crower roller
- Valves: ferria ss undercut
- Valve Train: crower
- Clutch: 8" torque convt tci
- Exhaust: hooker 2 1/8
- Total Time: 63,000 orig
- Passes: 400 est
- Fuel Cell
- Capacity: 8 gal
- Fuel Pump: holley electric
- Fuel Type: vp C12
- Radiator: tes
- Water Rad Location: front
- Water Pump: yes-stock
- Oil Cooler: no
- Ignition: msd 7al
- Alternator: yes-stock
- Battery: 2 in rear
- Data Logger: no
- Computer: no
- Manfacturer: Ford
- Type: C6 modified with extra clutch
- Gears: 456
- Shifter: hurst q stick
- Converter: tci 8"
- Trans Cooler: yes
- Transbrake: no
- Passes: 400 est
- Manufacturer: Ford
- Type: 9"
- Cooler: no
- Ratio: 456
- Spool: yes/mini
- Axles: mosier 31 sp
- Passes: 200
- Construction: stock steel
- Color: red/black stripe
- Paint: deltron
- Condition: good
- minor wheel well mod(not tubbed)
- Type: stock
- Builder: Ford
- Material: steel
- Finish: paint(good)
- Condition: good
- Front Suspension: stock
- Rear Suspension: stock w/ ladder bars
- Brakes: front disc/rear drums
- Steering: std.
- Wheels: weld
- Tires: goodyear 10" slicks(20 passes)
- Color/Finish: black
- Material: stock
- Fire System: hand held ext
- Restraints: 5 pt trw.
- Guages: s&W
- Steering Wheel: stock
- Condition: good
- extra 429cu short block
- rods(stock) fuel pump
- Tran. mod. with shift kit
- orig dash, hood, shaker
- extra heads(crank 505")
- induction seats(stock)
On the torinocobra forums suede57ford adds:
I remember that car well. I actually painted that car when I was in High School in 1987. It was an Amarillo car. Some one told me where it was sitting a few blocks down from my buddies '71 Fastback. I showed up in my maroon '70 Torino w/460 one afternoon when he had the garage door open. He noticed the paint on my Torino, which was very high quality for the era, and asked what I would charge to paint his. It was my first paint job at my new shop, while I was still in high school. My dad helped me on it every evening and it came out really nice.
The owner had managed to save the stripes off the sides. He had no idea what they meant and nether did we at the time (I had just parted out a nice Type N/M just for the hood and tach earlier that year too). After we got the paint finished, he asked if we could paint the unique stripes back on. My father handmade templates and we actually painted the Twister stripes back on. If he would not have asked us to try reproducing the stripes, the car would have never got them back on and it would have ended up being just another bracket car. Finally we realized it was a Twister, but as at the time in the late eighties it wasn't a big deal.
The owner was only interested in racing it and actually was going to have the car tubbed out in '87. The local shop that specialized in back-halfing cars at that time refused to cut that car up. The owner ended up making a 10" rear tire fit. I rolled the rear fender lip and moved the front edge of the rocker up an inch to clear the tall rear tire.
The car had a perfect body and decent original paint when it first came to me. No rust anywhere. The guy kept modifying the car , but finally had realized it was not wise to cut up the factory stuff. He had me paint an extra hood with a snorkel scoop for him so his shaker hood did not get cut.
The car was really fast as a street car. On its first pass at Amarillo Dragway it left black marks the entire length of the track with polyglass tires. It had a roller cammed 460/C6 at that time. Amazingly fast street car.
I should have tried to buy the car when he first wanted to sell it. I was going to college, and painting cars on weekends/summers to pay for school, so the timing was not right for my me. I ended up selling my Pro Street '70 GT my last year at Texas Tech in order to finish engineering school as well. By the time I tried tracking the Twister down, he had moved from Amarillo and the car was already gone.
Too bad I couldn't have ended up with it. I never found the on line add until the car had already been sold.
That car left major impression me.