Records from DST show 1- ea. 500 Sports Coupe produced in the run of T-Bolts.

Would be worth checking in the Ford Flashback group to see if maybe one of the old sliverbacks can recall the 'who shot john'

I can easily see an inexperienced driver unloading all eight barrels of a T-Bolt and putting the greasy side skyward. Lucky they were not killed outright.

Even then the legal department was busy with a number of special vehicles incidents, especially competition deaths (Fireball, others) and sought to indemnify themselves as much as possible. Thus the admonition that T-Bolts could not be street registered, as well as their zealous. monitoring of the uses of other non-production vehicles.