![]() My dad would obviously have been happy with my new purchase had it happened, but all might be for the best anyway.Īround the same time that this Mustang business was going on, I had decided that I’m finally going to buy a ’63 or ’64 Riviera, price be damned (within reason). Here’s an example of what I was looking for in a new one (but this one’s an automatic that’s now sold). I hope you now can see why I was so tempted by a modern version of my dad’s old car. He left his snow tires on the back, and someone down south complimented his “nice mudgrips.” He still gets a chuckle out of that one. My dad sometimes tells the story of driving the car to Florida in December 1972 for his and Mom’s honeymoon. Here’s the whole Mach 1 for good measure. Mom, by the way, has her own Mustang history in fact, I’ve been driving her old car for years. My mom’s wearing a “Photographer Official 1968 Speedway” shirt from the Indy 500 – my grandpa was a loyal Indy Car fan, an amateur photographer, and an employee at the local newspaper he attended the 500 most years and must have wrangled the shirt somehow. Here are my mom and my older cousin posing with the Mach 1 (with my uncle’s ’66 GTO in the background). By that time, it had developed some significant natural body ventilation. ![]() He said it was a 351 four-barrel, and he grenaded the engine. Unfortunately, Dad traded it in on a ’74 Gran Torino Elite a couple years before I was born.ĭigression about a strange coincidence: Dad’s Mustang almost certainly met its fate in the early 1980s at the hands of my wife’s stepfather of all people, who owned a rusty lime green Mach 1 while he was in high school near where we live. The Mustang was a 351 Cleveland four-barrel car, and anyone who appreciates big Mustangs can see why I fell in love with pictures of it at a young age. This is Dad with his Mach 1, cutting a period-stylish figure. Dad hasn’t been without a Mustang in his name since he was 20 or so. I know I would have liked the car itself – my mom and dad currently drive a 2018 Ecoboost Premium in black that they’ve let me drive several times. Only Ann Arbor responded, but they informed me that the order bank had closed for 2020, and it would be basically impossible to trade for a car such as the one I wanted. Next, I visited Ford’s website to spec out that particular model, and followed it up with a message to a large Ford dealership in Ann Arbor, and a dealer more local to me. A modern car comes with more than I need anyway. I decided that I wanted a Grabber Lime Mustang with one option – the “Black Accent Package,” which includes blacked out trim and wheels. Therefore, the date I mentioned above is of paramount importance to my not-that-interesting tale. Grabber Lime is a one-year color – it has been cancelled for 2021. All of these things caught up with me on October 10th, when I saw this Grabber Lime Ecoboost Mustang on a dealer lot in Northern Michigan. Perhaps most important of all, my dad once owned a Grabber Lime 1971 Mustang Mach 1 that initiated a fascination with that combination of color and model that continues today. Lime green Skittles were my favorite until they foolheartedly changed that flavor to a sickly apple green (I sent them a strongly worded email voicing my displeasure). My parents allowed me to choose the paint color in my bedroom when I was four – I chose lime green. (emails are monitored for fraudulent activity.One of my favorite colors is lime green. If this car was to hit auction in my opinion it could bring $80,000 to $120,00,00 as is! The story is priceless on this car. thing and you have a legal numbers matching car. Buy a rust free or close body for 6 to 8 thousand and do the vin. C-6 Trans, 430 rear end gears, 429 Cobra Jet Ram Air. Has original front tires and license plates. This is a numbers matching 100% complete car that has been parked since 1973 outside.
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