Guess what Dennis? When I saw this video, it took me back to my college days also! One of my college friend's Dad owned a Ford dealership in Albany, NY. One semester he shows up with this very car, though it was a 429 Super Cobra Jet with 4:30 rear end and a 4 spd. That was one very fast and beautiful car - same color as this. Thanks for stirring the memories!
I bought a 1964.5 Mustang coup 'A' code in 1970 for $600. It had the wheels that are on this beautiful 'hi-po' GTA and was the green color of the '66 fastback here. It also had the rally pack with a 6,000 rpm tach. Within 2 years, that car would leave a GTA standing. We used the same solid lifter camshaft, bumped the compression a point and used a Ford racing dual-point mechanical advance distributer(stock on the GTA and GT350 was a single point mechanical advance distributer). Edlebrock medium riser called the Torantula with a Holley 600cfm vacuum secondary(that we rigged mechanical at the track)carb. Douglas headers, Schaffer aluminum flyweel and heavy clutch. 4.60 rear gear and traction bars. You could carry a wheelie for 1st and 2nd gear. Wasn't a night street racing in the early '70s that people didn't have us pull over and prove it was a little ole 289 in that car. Usually always after we beat them.😊 Edit: @ 29:30...wrong. The car above when I bought it had a 289 4-barrel carb but had a single exhaust. Had to put the dual exhaust on it which is a whole other story.
@Amplass 333 i like some Fords. Just that our family had bad luck in the 70s with Fords. I'm not brand loyal though. I dig Trans Am's, Chevelle's, Cudas, Challengers, Duster's, etc.
Decades ago a friends dad had a cobra. This cobra had a Boss 302 under the hood! As his parents were out of town, we did what any healthy 18 year old would do and took it out to "circulate" the oil. What a ride. Over 45 years later its still an event in my life!
28:25 - Bob Perkins is still around, they did a video with him a few years back with a prototype 71 Boss 302 that someone found, and he had a ton of NOS parts for one because it almost made production before Ford canceled it. He would go around to Ford dealers and buy up NOS parts, and has a huge inventory of them.
I can’t believe how lucky I am!! I found your channel a few days ago and I’ve been binge watching ever since!! lol I just finished watching your Mopar compilation and before that it was the Chevy compilation lol I just can’t stop myself! Lol. I’m blessed to have family members that swear by their particular passion brand/make of American cars. I’ve also been fortunate enough to have owned cars and trucks from each of the main companies. I currently have a RAM truck that I purchased to pull my travel trailer when I retired and it also takes my grandson and I fishing, camping, hunting and just general outdoors stuff lol. I also had the one Chevy Suburban that was built to last lol. It was a 1994 Chevy Suburban Silverado 6.5 ltr turbo diesel 2500 in Chevy Champagne thats gold paint to us mortals lol. I purchased it new and drove it for 21 years! lol In all those years the only thing I did was regular oil changes, new filters (fuel and air), and replaced the batteries once (dual battery setup). That was all it ever asked of me in just over 400,000 miles. I couldn’t stand to sell it as it had become part of the family so I gave it to my son. He’s now raising his sons in it just like I raised him in it lol. I took that Suburban everywhere you can imagine from Disneyland to deserts, mountains of the Pacific Northwest to the Everglades of south Florida, Chinatown San Francisco to Big Sky Montana. I drove it in 49 states plus Canada. It was 2 wheel drive but several times I used it to rescue someones 4x4 that had gotten stuck somewhere lol. Anyways, my dad (stepfather) was a Corvette guy and always had at least one in his garage ever since the very first one rolled off the assembly line lol. For awhile he had a pair of red corvettes, one had a T top and the other was a convertible. Both of the same year with the same colour and same interior. I drove his silver 1963 Corvette from the church I was married in to the reception hall lol. As a kid my father had a series of pickup’s that he used for work and my mum had several cars over the years always white in colour. She had a 64 dodge with the push button transmission and after that she had a 1969 Mercury Montego that would blow the doors off anything dumb enough to race it! lol I said all that to make the point that it doesn’t matter which brand/make of vehicle you swear by as long as it’s American 🇺🇸! I’ve owned a few foreign made cars over the years but even my family that still lives in the U.K. will tell you that the best cars all have their roots in Detroit! Whenever they came over to visit they always wanted to ride in my “estate” car lol. That’s what my Suburban is called in the U.K. because only people rich enough to have an estate can afford the fuel for one! lol Thank you for posting these episodes of your show which can only be described as the best car show ever made and hosted by the only guy to have ridden in more cars than Jay Leno himself! lol Cheers! See you at the finish line 🏁
Awesome, Don, the Porsche guy here in Wisconsin coming out to San Diego. Hopefully I can meet Magnus. my next new purchase will be a factory five hopefully in the spring time. I have my eye on one. thank you these are wonderful videos.
The 65' Shelby 427 Cobra is my very favorite car ever. Not a daily driver, but every now and then... I'd try if it were just given to me. It might be a bit slippery on icy roads. Lucky man there.
The 69'Mach 1 looks better than the 70'. 69 Mach1 and 69 396 Chevelle were my favorites for 69'. I was in 6th Grade, but ended up getting a 69 Ply Road Runner in 76'.
Ahhhh DeSoto, i started Racing at the drag strip in 1971 when i was 16, it was then Don Garlets new home track and thr first time i won my class, Don Garlets was standi g next to the guy handing out checks, he passed me my check, it meant a lit to me, he was my hero. Back then if you had a pit pass you could stand elbow to elbow with Garlets while he refreshed his fngine between passes, it was somjych different then. Anyway i later raced on that circle track but the magic of earlier times was gone
Thanks Dennis for the great video and your efforts. I have an Exoto collectable of the Daytona coupe # 5 signed by Brock, Bonderant, and Dan Gurney, and it was once owned by Tom Atzbach. It's about as close as I'll ever get to one sadly. Super cool segment Dennis you lucky man!
With those signatures that model would have a big sales price, particularly since 2 of the signers have passed. I have a nice, rare book called The Cobra Daytona Coupes. I had Shelby sign it in 2006 and Brock in in 2016 at the Lime Rock Park Historic Festival in Connecticut. I have no plans to sell it but have seen prices into the couple thousand + range on ebay.
6:05 - this vehicle has passed through many hands since this video was originally recorded, and sold at Mecum in 2009. There is a video of CSX3020 from a year ago on YT, it now has period sponsor decals and a different set of wheels and tires on it.
This is my new favorite video from you Dennis. Absolutely awesome! Hopefully some day I can have Mr. Perkins restore my yellow old 72 Mach1 you saw me with at the emerald cost cruise in a couple of years ago. Keep up the great work!😎👍🏼
@6:22 its cool to see what the old Desoto Speedway looked like before it got ran into the ground and before it was sold to @CleetusMcFarland now the FREEDOM FACTORY....
44:41 13.99sec 1/4 mi.😂 They always fail to mention that those #s include wheel spin all through 1st gear. Add Modern tires and a modern 6 speed manual trans and thats an easy 12 sec. car.
Great selection of cars! I've seen a few of those in person, ridden in none of them unfortunately. That red Comp Cobra must be the one Art Foley in Seattle owned in the 80's? I saw it several times back then.
I bought a 69 Mach I back in 75. Someone had blown up the engine and sold it to me. Being a Chevy lover and having a 427 big block needing a place to go, I dropped it in that Mustang. I had never heard of it being done back then so say I did a Chevy swap before it was cool.
Ford has always been such a lively company. I could never understand why Ford was not completely dominate in the auto world. History like this video shows how Ford over come the anti media hatred of Ford. We now realize (2022), the media is 95% controlled by what Henry Ford called the International Shew. Ford was forced into underdog status and I believe this forced them into doing better than the rest. We still witness Ford as king of the pick up. But the 1960's were extremely exciting times, as the government was out of the way and Ford's marketing and engineering departments went wild... Glorious times... A testament to American ingenuity
At 14:00, I think something happened to my soul. It was kind of a fart/orgasm/shiver/twitch/elation/tense but relaxed feeling. That’s some very, very special video.
I liked at the end when he says: FORD = First On Race Day lol That’s a lot better than the adage: FORD = Fixed Or Repaired Daily lol I watched the videos for Mopar and Chevy and he didn’t have a saying for either of those two types of car So I have to ask if anyone has a saying for those acronyms and if you could attach your comment to this comment so I will see them. Cheers
To ride in one these turns My God dreams on to stratosphere of emotions....would they lock Us up To envision actually owning a Competition Cobra and a one of six Daytona Coupe ?
Great video, loved the story love the mustangs in speciel! but i cant help me pist abut the fact that all theese pretty machines are a made to be driven, and instead ends on Museums and as collectors fancy prices...
At 25:00-26:30 the video is showing several Mustangs in a collection and they are “unrestored”. I don’t understand what that means as compared to “restored” cars. Can someone please explain to me what the difference is?
Unrestored means the car is just like it came from the factory. It hasn't been repainted, the interior hasn't been replaced, the chrome hasn't been replated, etc. Restored cars have had some or all of these things done to restore it to the same condition as it came from the factory. Unrestored original-condition cars (also referred to as "survivors") are much more rare than restored ones.
He didn't have much choice as the 289 Cobra would have been beaten by the new 427 Stingray. He must have gotten over his "detesting" of it since he had his own 427 right up until his passing, though he did have it converted to an automatic for health reasons. I'll tell you who did love it and that was the late Bob Bondurant, a former Corvette racer that Shelby coaxed away to see what he could do with a Cobra. Turns out he did a lot with them! RIP, Bob.
In the 60's Ford did well. in the professional ranks. But with the exception of the rare 427 cars on the street and pure stock drag classes Ford got beat constantly by the MOPAR and GM Muscle cars. Any Ford with a 390 was an automatic loss if it faced a Pontiac GTO or Big block SS Chevellle.
@Lance Lawson - I'll have to take issue with your Ford 390 being an automatic loss to a GTO. Two friends of mine in high school had these cars - both 1965, both 4 spds. The GTO was definitely quicker off the line up to around 70 mph, then the 390 Fairlane GT walked away from the Goat. That GTO topped out at around 115 while the Fairlane would run on up to 135! I'm pretty certain they both had stock diff. gears, but since they were about the same weight and horsepower, the Fairlane must have had a taller gear for that big a difference. Around town for short bursts, the GTO was king, but out on the highway it was the Ford's turn to kick ass! Great times they were for sure. A college friend had a 70 Torino Super Cobra Jet 429, 4 spd. with a 4:30 rear end and he laid waste to more than a couple MOPARS and Chevys! Like many Hi Po cars of the time, that 429 SCJ put out more than its 375 advertised HP! Sure miss those days.
