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Just got time to get back up on the Forum, been a little busy with life.  I apologize to Skakebit and any other members that I may have offended with my comment about mods to these cars.  I wasn't condoning the butchering of any of these cars.  I like, a lot of the "older" people that have had owned them and been around, have seen some tragedies committed on them.  I'd rather see the person that has one just leave it as alone as possible and keep it because they love it.  Sooner or later it will end up in the hands of someone, hopefully, that has the knowledge and financial wherewithal to bring the car back to a state of grace again.   I know I would have puked when I first saw 00925 on that used car lot, if I hadn't have been able to get my hands on the car.  Why they axed the roll bar I have no idea as I bought the car from a used car lot.  We all know how honest and knowledgeable most used car salesmen are!  If they had known what it was, even in 1973, I wouldn't have been able to buy it for $500 + TTL even with a blown engine.  BTW, the only thing that was not factory when I sold the car was the basic engine, short block.  That was blown into about 10 pieces when I got the car.Everything from the back of the block on was original.  As were all of the underhood items, including alternator, power steering pump and brackets, etc.  When I built the 1st engine for it this was just a 390 4V from a salvage yard to get the car driveable.  The original 428 engine had 3 valves dropped on the left bank, busted the block all up, trashed the left head and cracked the crankshaft.  A couple of the pushrods looked like spaghetti.  Everything that was salvable was saved and reused. When I pulled the cam for salvage it turned out to be about the baddest Crower mechanical cam you could by for an FE, definitely not a street cam by any means, I guess the builder found that out the hard way.

Thanks and Kind  Regards,  Allen

Looking for an aluminum 1 x4V intake for medium riser/CJ heads.  No concourse stuff just a good, clean, straight intake, Ford or Shelby performance parts unit is best. No Edelbrock etc, already have plenty of that.  This is for my project car with a 427MR already.  Just a lot of wrong stuff on the engine.  Allen.

I understand what your saying.  When I started the only thing that resembles a 67 GT500 was all the body unique items and the badging, steering wheel etc in the interior.  That was the reason that when I decided to take her apart and and make her as right as I could afford and did what I did.  The only thing that I got into pretty heavy was the internals of the the engine.  Went back to the Wembledon White, got the correct intake, located a factory roll bar at a SAAC meet and re-installed it, correct spare tire and jack,  put 10 spokes on it as I could get those from a fellow SAAC member.  I'm no purist but do admit that sometimes people get a little wild.  But at the end of the day it is their car so they can still make personal choices about what they want to do to them.   Sometimes you got to remember what the man's intent was when he built these cars and sold them to the public.  Allen.

Got to agree it's a different color for a 67 GT500.  I'm very pleased to see all the pictures of the car though.  The car is still a very good looking machine.  Hard to believe what it is now compared to back in late 73 or early 74 when I found and bought the car.  Found it on a sunday drive when passing through Daly City, California.  Daly City Motors, long gone.  The car was sitting on a used car lot, was painted Mustang maroon with the Mustrang crescent stripes on the sides.  All the GT500 components were there except the roll bar had been gas axed out, why I have no idea.  Will post more early history I have when I have time.  Allen.

Since I see my old GT500 #00925 is apparently somewhere, I will dig back through old pictures and records and see what I can.  Allen

Can anyone tell me what was the 1st year that SAAC held their first annual meet in Monterey Ca (Laguna Seca) and the first year it was held in Dearborn Michigan Ford Headquarters? Allen

Many years ago I owned the car and may have some old info for the current owner.  I used to have a lot of stuff on it but thru the many moves and years some or
most of it may be gone forever.  But I can give the current owner some history for 10 or 11 years of the cars life.  The attached photo would have been taken in Spring of 1984.   Regards, Allen