Automotive WI: Badge-engineered Corvettes

I don't understand, how can you spec a 60s US land barge more like a hand built, hot rodded, little English sports car? Are you suggesting a complete change to the 65 or 67 Tbird to make it into a proper sports car? Or that you load the OTL Tbird full of racing bits from NASCAR, Trans Am and even sports cars to make them go like hell.
You start doing it in '58 or '60 (or maybe as late as '62), & don't go 4-seater--or offer a similar down-market 4-seater as a Ford & make the 2-seater a hotter Merc. I'm not aiming for a Cobra clone in any case, but something above the OTL 'vette (well above the OTL T-bird) & below the OTL Cobra.

That could butterfly the 'stang entirely, however.:eek:

Which would also wipe out the Camaro. And the Rebel Machine.:eek::eek: And the '71 'cuda.:eek::eek::eek:
You're hardly the lone ranger there.
You got that right.;)
In any case I think the reponses challenged the premise and provided reasons for this, so can't be considered failed threads even if they didn't go where you wanted them.
IDK about failed, but way off where I hoped they'd go, both times.

Let me appeal to future posters: read the OP?;) Or at least marginally stick to the thread title?;)
Ohhh, man, what a beaut.:cool::cool::cool: Badge that a Cad & stuff in a 365? Or crank the 215 to 305, give it a 11.25 CR 4 valve head, electronic ignition, & FI, & call it the Skyhawk GT?:cool::cool:

It does remind me a bit of a Ferrari 275, but that's not a bad thing.:cool:
 
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