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Quoted from Who-Dey:Its a real pretty blue and it has a gold stripe down the side.
428 Super Cobra Jet has the stripe.
There is no mistaking a Boss 429 Mustang.
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A guy I worked for has a low mile '69 428 Super Cobra Jet. We lived in the same apartments so it sat next to my '62 Corvette in the garage. He also acquired a 1969 Boss 302 and restored it. A very rare model as compared to the 1970. He runs an auto shop now and has a bunch of cars.
I always wanted a 1967 Shelby GT 500 with a 427 myself.
Quoted from jhanley:Yeah, those Eliminators were pretty nice. There was a 68 427 Cougar called a GT- E also. Very rare car.
Yeah they only made a few hundred but they weren't so rare back in the day. My buddy had one of those 427 Cougars as a daily driver. But that was like 40 years ago.
Quoted from Who-Dey:It truly is everything im telling you it is. The car has the original paint on it and it doesn't have a scratch on it that im aware of.
I believe you because I know of one just like it. I should have bought the thing when he offered me a screaming deal on it. But I got greedy and wanted the Boss 302 instead.
It was around 1995 or 96 when he offered that one to me for $15k I believe, but I also remember when used original AC Cobras were under $10k.
Quoted from jhanley:That would have been a killer deal.
I haven't seen it in a few years but after a search , the city and color are correct and that license plate looks real familiar.
Edit- upon further review, this isn't the car.
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Quoted from Darcy:O-din that stripe is for the Mach 1. A regular 1969 Mustang factory equipped 428SCJ would have no stripes. Visually the 15 inch wheels, raised letter tires, oil cooler can be seen through the grill, and possibly a hood scoop and that would be it for any clue that the 428 was in there.
Yes, but the point I was making is the 429 boss had no stripe.
The green one above, if it is the same one I think it is, is a Mach 1 428 Super Cobra Jet.
I could probably still buy that Mach 1.... if I had the $60,000. I don't even want to know what the Boss 302 would run.
Suddenly that Mach 1 is looking more black than dark green. At least on this monitor. The one I know of is definitely dark green.
Quoted from jhanley:Ram-Air
My friend's 69 Mach 1 definitely had ram air. Is that the correct air cleaner in the pic above? I'm starting to wonder if that was his or not. Easiest way would be to pay him a visit, but it's been five years.
Quoted from jhanley:That's not Ram Air and it looks like a 351 Windsor in that picture.A Cobra jet has either chrome steel valve covers or aluminum ones.
Actually that's not even a Mach 1. It doesn't have body color dual racing mirrors.
Right. That's not the car then. Thanks!
Quoted from AlexF:My uncle's last Indy didn't end well either. He survived but never raced again. Somewhere I have one of these pics signed.
We come from families of crash and burn.
Quoted from AlexF:Yeah I guess so. The only pic of my old car I have handy is one where my 6 year old grandson tried to take it for a spin.
Funny thing is '68 Galaxie was also my first car and then I bought a convertible just like it.
I guess you and I should probably stay away from the race track.
Quoted from Multiballmaniac1:Phew that’s too close for comfort.
You probably don't want to check what happened to Louis then. At least he was first at something.
Quoted from Who-Dey:Man you guys were so lucky....holy crap! Can you imagine if he would have stomped on the gas with that big ass 390 in there? Good God that could have seriously be bad.
I did stomp on the gas in my Galaxie with the 390 in it, with my girlfriends brother and two of his friends in it, got sideways and drove the car off a cliff. Only thing that saved us was a tree 30 feet down or it was another 150 or more to the bottom. Lesson learned and that started my career as a mechanic tearing the remains of that car apart.
Great uncle Louis and his mechanic did not fare so well.
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Quoted from MustangPaul:Sad to see they didn't make it.
You flip one of those cars over, nobody's going to make it. I learned about Louis about the time Swede Savage had his wreck.
Quoted from Who-Dey:Dang.o-din, sounds like you really got lucky....unfortunately Uncle Louis didnt though.
We got lucky alright. Stupid 19 year old kid racing around the clifftop hit some gravel on a turn. Squeezed the car between a telephone pole and a tree and then went down.
Ironic as the song "Highway Star" was cranking on my tape deck. I remember after we hit the tree, the tape deck petered out and slowed down to an
"Iiiiiiimmmm aaaaaa Hiiiiiiiiiiwaaayyyyyy staaarrrrr.....
Quoted from Darcy:A stock Duesenberg Roamer could do 109 m.p.h. That photo clearly shows the bricks on the Indy track. Brave men raced there, with suspiciously safe automobiles.
Yeah, he goes down in history as the first driver to die during the Indy 500 race. I've got a signed picture of him standing next to his Roamer my dad left me.
Thank goodness they have added many safety features since then.
And sorry to veer this off topic so far, but I rarely bring that up or tell that story. Either story for that matter.
More muscle cars please!
Quoted from Multiballmaniac1:Too crazed.
After flipping a Boston Whaler shortly after that and watching the spinning prop miss me by a few inches as I sat there helplessly treading water, I learned to mellow out a bit.
Quoted from o-din:he goes down in history as the first driver to die during the Indy 500 race.
This is not correct. I was told when I was young it was at the first 500 mile race at Indy. A piece of literature seemed to support that. New literature is now out there.
The real hero was Wilfred Bourque. Not even sure if his race was called the 500.
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