REVENGE!! MM&FF wants another TBird/Cougar Shootout!!

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REVENGE!! MM&FF wants another TBird/Cougar Shootout!!

June 09, 2005, 01:29:27 PM

New issue came in yesterday and the letter of the month was from Ron DeWitt asking for a 83-88 TBird/Cougar vs. 89-97 TBird/Cougar Shootout, and MM&FF said send in the applications! This is open to ALL engines so any 83-88 TBird or Cougar can enter. I highly suggest anybody with a remotely fast (13sec or quicker) car to email the shootout editor at steve.baur@primedia.com !!! Eric, bring the vert anyway, it's a shoe-in for a feature.

Michael Pinto
http://www.aerobirdmotorsports.com

Re: REVENGE!! MM&FF wants another TBird/Cougar Shootout!!

Reply #1 – June 09, 2005, 01:48:45 PM

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Eric, bring the vert anyway, it's a shoe-in for a feature.

LMFAO!! As if you were reading my mind. Er, wait a minute...are you saying my car is slow?

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Reply #2 – June 09, 2005, 01:53:06 PM

Where would the shootout be held, or is this TBD?

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Reply #3 – June 09, 2005, 08:01:21 PM

NJ. Englishtown I think. And Eric, your car isn't slow, I'm just saying that if nothing but 8 sec tube chassis ex-pro stock birds show up, you will still get in the magazine

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Reply #4 – June 10, 2005, 02:11:07 PM

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NJ. Englishtown I think. And Eric, your car isn't slow, I'm just saying that if nothing but 8 sec tube chassis ex-pro stock birds show up, you will still get in the magazine

Maybe as a blur in the background! LOL! My car ain't the quickest but she shor am pretty.

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Reply #5 – June 10, 2005, 04:31:50 PM

man, that would be sweet. I haven't picked up an MM&FF in a bit. Come one guys, show those stang guys what the birds can do!

edit: and yah, Eric better go, that droptop is just too nice NOT to make it in.

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Reply #6 – June 10, 2005, 06:36:19 PM

We will kick the MN12's asses! Right guys?

James :D

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Reply #7 – June 13, 2005, 07:03:01 PM

Haha, yeah, I wish I got my cougar together. I never expected them to go for that shootout, so I haven't been working on it as much as I should. :(

Bought a huge Air compressor and paint gun this weekend so I can now sandblast the engine bay and paint it. There is still some time left, so you never know, I may get it done by then yet.

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Reply #8 – June 14, 2005, 05:29:30 PM

intrestion to say the least

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Reply #9 – June 15, 2005, 12:43:08 AM

Man, my car is almost respectable now - I'd like to do that if possible ... I wonder when it might happen?

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Reply #10 – June 15, 2005, 01:35:43 AM

i should get my brother to go he's got a 94 sc . and it's not far from us. is this a day the track is gonna be closed for this only or open to the public

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Reply #11 – June 15, 2005, 08:51:31 AM

They'll likely only take good looking(rust buckets, primer or peeling paint don't sell magazines), hard running cars.. If you can't run at least LOW 13s in 90* plus heat, there ain't much chance you'll get your car in the mag.

It will be a closed track, not open for the general public, and you'll have to keep your times secret till the mag hits the news stands. If you go blabbibg about how your or the others ran and they find out, the article will NEVER be published. To partite, you'll have to preregister and they will(maybe) send you a invite...

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Reply #12 – June 15, 2005, 09:47:31 AM

Man if some of you guys go you'd better take some serious heat with you. I'd say there are some pretty fast Supercoupes out there.

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Reply #13 – June 15, 2005, 12:15:21 PM

So does that mean that I could take my 86 & 89sc ? I don't know, thats a long ass way to drive not to mention what a tow bill would be if I broke something out there.
(Don't have a truck)

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Reply #14 – June 15, 2005, 12:34:59 PM

I'd love to see this happen. But I am a realist...even if we all followed what Tom said, I'd think chances would be slim that this article would ever see print. I also find it highly disturbing that this same magazine would devote several pages, several different times, to the "luxo-barge" shootouts with Crown Vics, Marauders and Town Cars, but has a bias against our cars--the slightly larger cousins of the "almighty" Mustang itself! Why? Because our cars are a little too normal...magazines want something so ridiculous that it's print-worthy. To say that MM&FF is seething with attitude would be a large understatement. If it ain't a Mustang (or totally off the wall), it ain't gonna happen with that mag. I dare say 5.0 Magazine, for all its belated reporting, is slightly better than MM&FF now.

*sigh* What I wouldn't give to have Super Ford magazine back. They ALWAYS gave props to us.