Do You Have A 427 Under The Hood??
In the CARS article that is referenced below, it says that "the assembly plant insisted that the engine would not fit and they would not hold up the line trying to shoehorn the big monster in place".
Apparently, they were wrong about it not fitting.. Bob got his mismarked 427 routed through ordinary channels and treated to the big power house, including the High RPM COM. It looks like the Medium version of the 427 would fit in there.
Unfortunately, I cannot talk with Bob, Sr., as he passed away earlier this year. I am awaiting a call from Bob, Jr., to see what he knows about Ford putting other 427's in other customer's or dealers cars. Maybe Ford found out, because of this, that you could "shoehorn" a 427 into the engine bay of a flairbird... However, if they did not know it before this event, how did someone, supposedly, get a 427 into a '63 Bulletbird and '64 Flairbirds? The mystery deepens, but I love a good mystery. Maybe I can help prove some of these cars actually did come out of the factory with 427's yet. I also have a call into Bob Oeschger, who worked the line all those years of the early Tbirds in the Wixom plant. I will see if I can jog his memory about special order Bulletbirds and Flairbirds with 427's in them....
In the CARS article that is referenced below, it says that "the assembly plant insisted that the engine would not fit and they would not hold up the line trying to shoehorn the big monster in place".
Apparently, they were wrong about it not fitting.. Bob got his mismarked 427 routed through ordinary channels and treated to the big power house, including the High RPM COM. It looks like the Medium version of the 427 would fit in there.
Unfortunately, I cannot talk with Bob, Sr., as he passed away earlier this year. I am awaiting a call from Bob, Jr., to see what he knows about Ford putting other 427's in other customer's or dealers cars. Maybe Ford found out, because of this, that you could "shoehorn" a 427 into the engine bay of a flairbird... However, if they did not know it before this event, how did someone, supposedly, get a 427 into a '63 Bulletbird and '64 Flairbirds? The mystery deepens, but I love a good mystery. Maybe I can help prove some of these cars actually did come out of the factory with 427's yet. I also have a call into Bob Oeschger, who worked the line all those years of the early Tbirds in the Wixom plant. I will see if I can jog his memory about special order Bulletbirds and Flairbirds with 427's in them....
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