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| RE: 60 hipo bird |
| By Mike McQ - 02/10/2003 12:14:55 PM; IP 206.193.53.51 |
A 1960 Thunderbird with a 352HP-360 horsepower, stick and overdrive is very rare. I personally have never seen one. I'm unable to find anything in my limited old Ford materials that would indicate that such an option was available for the '60 T-bird. Please understand though that I'm not saying that such an option wasn't available. I would really like to see/read some documentation that the 360 horse thumper was available to 'bird buyers.
So what we need is information such as the VIN of your 'bird. The '60 and '61 HP options did not receive unique VIN engine codes. For 1960 the letter Y 5th digit in would indicate a possible HP. For 1961 the letter was Z. This is confusing because the Y for '60 indicated standard 300 horse 352 or 360 horse. The Z indicated 300 horse 390 for '61 or it the car could have been a 375 single Holley 4V or a 401 horse triple Holley car. Any other materials that indicate a letter other than Y for '60 or Z for '61 are just plain wrong.
Now for that 360 horse engine, does it have HP specific items, i.e., aluminum intake, Holley carb, dual point distributor, solid lifer cam/lifters, a 3/8" fuel line, larger 3" front brake drums, unique style/larger harmonic dampner? These are a few of the important obvious details that made a 352 a hipo.
And of course you know that those HP exhaust manifolds would never have fit in your '60 bird stock. So the HP 352 you have came with the box style non hipo manifolds? Is your 'bird equipped with the hard to replace/duplicate full 3/8" fuel line?
Again, I'm not saying your car wasn't built in some special way at the factory with a 360 horse plant. Or that someone years ago didn't transplant the engine from a '60 full size. I know the stick/OD was available for the last time in '60. So making an engine switch wouldn't be difficult minus the HP exhaust manifolds.
Your basic question is what's the value? It's tough to say but if you can provide us/me with more details on what you have on that B9A block(and being a B9A block does lend credibility to your claim that the engine is a hipo) I'll give you my best guess. |
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