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| Photo shot with a Nikon D3 & 85mm f/1.8 |
Here's a '94-'95 Thunderbird LX in Opal Frost.
This was the mid-cycle refresh of the MN12, and featured the replacement of the 5.0L pushrod motor with the 205bhp SOHC Modular 4.6L. Base motor was still the 140bhp 3.8L Essex V6, which was woefully underpowered for the lardy 3,600 pound MN12 'T-bird.
It's weird that this thing is older now than the '55 T-bird was that my dad had when I was in grade school.
Incidentally, there was some hope that the MN12, with its independent rear suspension would form the basis for the next generation mid-Nineties Mustang. But cost and weight concerns meant that the SN95 rode on a lightly refreshed Fox platform, with its live rear axle. Outside of occasional special versions, an IRS Mustang was still twenty years away.
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