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1969 FORD TALLADGA 428 CORBA JET ENGINE

Sale price: £39,500.00 make an offer

Car location: Chipping Campden, United Kingdom

Sale type: Fixed price listing

Technical specifications, photos and description:

Year:
1969
Mileage:
57,555
Engine:
7,500
Previous Owners:
3
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1969 FORD TALLADGA 428 CORBA JET ENGINE for sale

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The Ford Torino Talladega was a car produced by the Ford Motor Company during the first few weeks of 1969. only. Ford's Talladega was named after the Talladega Superspeedway racetrack in Alabama. which also made its debut in 1969. The Ford Talladega was a special. more aerodynamic version of the Ford Torino / Fairlane Cobra. It was produced specifically to make Ford even more competitive in NASCAR stock car racing. and it was sold to the public only because homologation rules required a certain minimum number of cars (500 in 1969) be produced and made available for sale to the public. It is believed that a total of 754 Talladegas may have been built. although the Talladega/Spoiler Registry can only account for a maximum of 750. This number includes all prototypes. pilot cars. and production cars built. plus a special post-production car that was built for the president of Ford Motor Company. Semon Emil "Bunkie" Knudsen. in March 1969. The Bunkie Knudsen car was significantly different from all of the homologation cars with regard to options and color. This Talladega was even built at a different plant: Ford's Lorain. OH plant on March 20. 1969. However. all production examples were constructed during January and February 1969 at Ford's Atlanta Assembly plant in Atlanta. Georgia. All production homologation cars produced after the pilot cars were built between January 21 and February 28. (According to the Talladega/Spoiler Registry's records. Talladega number 502 was actually completed on January 31. and then the last 247 homologation cars were built between February 14 and February 28. following a 2 week break in production. ) It is unknown as to why Ford built an "extra" 247 homologation cars. once the homologation requirements had been met during the initial run. as it is thought that Ford lost several thousand dollars on every Talladega that was built.
Until very recently (2010). very little had been written and documented about these rare cars; however. there is now a website that is dedicated to the Talladega and Spoiler II cars produced by Ford and Mercury during 1969 as they fired powerful shots during the aerowars. For more information please go to http://www. talladegaspoilerregistry. com PLEASE RING FOR DEATILS AND DISCRIPTION. THANKS




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