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Old 10-16-2021, 11:03 AM
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Would like to go to a "left coast" Canadian Hill Climb event, Eric, like the event one of our Pontiac members competed in. (drove a Trans Am).

Ford competed in a actual Hill Climb (see video) when we were first testing the Ecoboost systems on cars. We took second place against some very experienced cars. I was not able to be there for that testing. We had the worse case vehicle for the event.
Heavy, not great Aero, (unlike the Gale Banks Trans Am was when Banks set records with the Trans Am, at Bonneville, in 2001.
No ecoboost engines in those days. But the driver did a good job.

https://www.autoblog.com/2009/10/05/...NquumI9KbBH-ZZ

Bucket list is getting a lot smaller, Eric.

Tom V.

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