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Originally posted by BANDIT 1
I think that if Ford was still racing the Cobra and selling them into the late 1960's/early 1970's that the Cobra would have "evolved" into the 429 S/C Cobra or 460 S/C Cobra. Chevy did the exact same thing when they switched to the 454 engine in the Corvette. The 454 was also mostly in trucks after the early 1970's, does that make the 454 a truck engine?
The hi-performance 429 engine's were in the Torino, Mustang, and Cougar's just to name a few, I would hardly call those "trucks".
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Actually, it IS a truck engine, then and now.
Just because some marketing types tried to spread the amortization for the new engine to additional product lines, doesn't change the fact that the 385 series engine was designed, and meant, for use in trucks. It's huge, big, bloated and seriously overweight. And it's not just me who thinks so. Just as you can't run Detroit Diesel blocks, or Merlin V-12's in NHRA, you can't run a 385-series engine in NHRA races either; though hemi's, BBC's and yes, FE's, ARE all allowed.
So there (why does some old polka tune keep running through my head?)
