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| February 11, 2012
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1968 Ford Galaxie 500 Convertible |
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| 8 | Year | 1968 |
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 | | E | Assembly | Mahwah, NJ |
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| | 57 | Body | Galaxie 500 2-Door Convertible |
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| | P | Engine | 8 Cyl. 428 CID
Type: Police
Horsepower: 360
Carbs: 1-4BBL
Compression: 10.5:1 |
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| | 128024 | Serial | 128024 |
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DescriptionHistoryThe Ford Galaxie was the primary full-sized model of automobile built in the United States by the Ford Motor Company for model years 1959 through 1974. A version of the car was produced in Brazil under the names Galaxie 500, LTD and Landau from 1968 to 1982. As often is the case with American cars, the model names shifted around from year to year, but the Galaxie was always Ford's full-size car. In the late 1960s, the low trim Fords would be the Ford Custom 500, while the high end would be the XL and LTD, but the Galaxie was normally the high volume counterpart to the Chevrolet Impala. Some Galaxies were high-performance, racing specification machines, a larger forebear to the muscle car era. Others were plain, family sedans. Source: Wikipedia |
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| Engine: 8 Cyl. 428 CID The Ford 427 was a great race and performance engine, but it was simply impractical to manufacture economically for street use; it required tighter tolerances during manufacture than Ford's regular engine plants could deliver. In addition, it was not really suited to driving all the accessories, such as air conditioning, required for a regular production series powerplant. Therefore, Ford went back to the drawing board to create an engine with fundamentally the same displacement (7.0 litres) but cheaper, with no requirement to withstand the punishing treatment given to race engines. Standard 428 CID FE engines were fitted to Galaxies (badged simply as '7 Litre') and Thunderbirds in the 1966 and 1967 model years. |
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