One great classic car..........

[Rebeldad1]

I can remember in high school (early to mid 60's) coming home and looking in our driveway. My dad owned a car lot that specialized in hot rods. A 1961 white Pontiac Catalina with metalic turquoise buckets. 389 tri-power 4 speed. next to it a 1962 Pontiac Catalina
Black on black. 428 Super Duty 4 speed. This was a special order car. The factory cast iron headers were massive. The dual quads made a very impressive sound.
Love to have them in my barn now.

 

[sd455dan]

I can remember in high school (early to mid 60's) coming home and looking in our driveway. My dad owned a car lot that specialized in hot rods. A 1961 white Pontiac Catalina with metalic turquoise buckets. 389 tri-power 4 speed. next to it a 1962 Pontiac Catalina
Black on black. 428 Super Duty 4 speed. This was a special order car. The factory cast iron headers were massive. The dual quads made a very impressive sound.
Love to have them in my barn now.

Sure it was a 428???

AFAIK the early SD's were all 389's and 421's unless that was a factory experimental before the production 428's were introduced in 1967

 

[Fuddy1952]

I can remember in high school (early to mid 60's) coming home and looking in our driveway. My dad owned a car lot that specialized in hot rods. A 1961 white Pontiac Catalina with metalic turquoise buckets. 389 tri-power 4 speed. next to it a 1962 Pontiac Catalina
Black on black. 428 Super Duty 4 speed. This was a special order car. The factory cast iron headers were massive. The dual quads made a very impressive sound.
Love to have them in my barn now.

I believe you're thinking 421 instead of 428.

 

[coobie]

Had 3 mustangs over the years 1971,1973,1976 all mach 1,s.Bought this in 2018 SRT challenger for the wife and I.

 

[coobie]

When I was 17 a friend of my Brother's bought this car new. He was 19. He paid just over $10K. A farm boy that had saved every dime he made. He went to town to buy a Corvette. Wearing overalls and a T shirt. Said the Vette dealer salesmen wouldn't even talk to him. Walked out of the Chevy dealership, across the street to the Ford dealership and bought this car.

He absolutely trashed it. I saw it wreck once on main street of our little town. It was way more car than Eddie could handle.

Anyway, a good friend of mine collects cars and several years ago tried to buy it from Eddie. It was in pieces at the time. Eddie wouldn't sell it to him and instead sold it to a collector in Kansas City. That man owned it for a few years and did nothing to restore it.

My friend contacted that collector and inquired about buying it? Was able to do so. Brought it home in pieces. As a part of his business's he owns a Speed Shop. They restored this car. It's a "match" car. Even has matching tires and battery from the era, just as it had when sold new. The stitching in the seats is even the right "count".

It's a marvel to look at. Brings back great memories for a lot of people in this community that knew the car when it was new. My friend hauls it to large car shows and on this occasion brought it out for a local Parade.

After he got it finished he talked to Eddie about coming and looking at it, even offered to let him drive it. Said Eddie would barely talk to him and acted mad that he had it. How sad. I told my friend if he ever found my '69 Mustang and restored it I'd be eternally grateful!!!

I have no idea of the value of this car. I'm sure it's not in my budget!!!!



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NICE,always wanted a 1969 mustang..

 

[ovrszd]

Trivia fact. '69 is the only year Mustangs have been built with four headlights.

 

[Molalla1]

Trivia fact. '69 is the only year Mustangs have been built with four headlights.

I believe so??? :confused3: . . . I was gone then . . . Tell me I'm right.

 

[om21braz]

The best was a bone stock 32,000 miles factory 1968 Z28... red with white stripes... even had the original E78 tires.

IMHO, that is the cream of the crop. I like the Mustang too, but a 1969 Z/28 is the muscle car even if it didn't have the most muscle.

 

[ovrszd]

I believe so??? :confused3: . . . I was gone then . . . Tell me I'm right.

Yep. I was gone in '72.

 

[Molalla1]

Yep. I was gone in '72.

Thank you sir . . .