One of None: Building The World's Fastest Mustang Fastback In 1966 - Autolite-1 

That is a vote of confidence and thank you!

Absolutely

Yes!!

Hopefully a thumbs up given before the video counts as much with the RU-vid authorities as one given after.

I do it sitting through the adverts.

Thank you!!!

I met Granatelli as a kid back around 1965 or 66. It was at the filming of a TV commercial. Astronaut Gus Grissom was also involved in the shoot and I got an autograph from him. Gus Grissom was killed a year or two later in the Apollo 1 accident at Cape Canaveral (now called Cape Kennedy).

@@danmyers9372 those astronauts were my heros growing up. I watched every launch that was broadcast, to this day!! and Andy ? anybody who liked racing knew who he was... and he knew the best of the racing world!

There may have been a Cougar just ahead of the Mustang...just kidding, you are probably correct, and that would be significant in the history of pony cars!

The cars shown aren't the first 67's. That picture was taken during the labor strike in the fall of 67, so the cars on the line would be 68 model year.

@@bottomlandsInteresting! Do you know why a Mercury and a Ford would have been on the same assembly line ?

@@davidlundstrom3838They were both Ford products, and basically the same car with only styling and trim differences, so it makes economic since to build them on the line.

​@@bottomlandsCould also cause issues. Have seen it checking in new cars at Lincoln Mercury dealership. Have seen quite a few Mercury Topaz that had trim saying Tempo.

I got my first set back in 1982. 14x5 on the front and 15x8 on the rear. :) with the knock-off style center caps.

Lincoln-Mercury's Racing Division chose those beautiful Cragar SS wheels for its A/FX and B/FX 1965 Comet Cyclones built by California's Bill Stroppe Engineering for Mercury's factory team racers and certain local dealership sponsered cars. Those SS wheels bore special "CYCLONE" center caps. I ran one of the former B/FX cars equipped with the 1969 BOSS 302 engine in NHRA's E/MP class. When I bought the vehicle without its original 289 High Performance 271 horsepower engine, both its original wheels and its fiberglass front bumper were missing. "Dyno Don" Nicholson had a spare bumper from his A/FX days, and he contributed it to my racing effort. Getting the 15x4" front and 15x8" rear Cragars was easy, but I was unsuccessful at rounding up a set of the CYCLONE center caps. I set National Records with the combo in both AHRA "Hot Rod" and IHRA "Modified Production" classes and ran under NHRA's MP Class Record at local events, but never ran at record setting events, so "No Joy" with NHRA records. Sure miss that vehicle.

They are called the QuadCam, and there is a web site devoted to them. Solid Aluminum block, except for valves, valve rings, and bolts. The fuel pumps were the same ones used at Indy, by A.J. Foyt. He was able to buy all of fords stock of these engines. Rumors was that they took the rev limited off, and that is what blew the first cars engine at 175, and the second cars engine, ( another 1967, but not Autolite-1 ) at 167. Someone put the two of these engines in a dragster. Bugsby. It says 2HP/ci, but they almost got to 3. Almost. It was an Indy engine, but with the direction changes on the intake, and the direction changes on the exhaust, it would never rev properly.

Lol I was disappointed spent how much money building a specialized car and a hemi sold to the public hit 200mph lmfao shows no matter how much Ford throws at there engines they'll be shit to a factory dodge block sold to the public lol

Try looking up Steve Strope at Pure Vision. He did it beautifully.

The algorithm knows all.

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Thanks for waisting 5 seconds of my life with this information on something that no one gives a poop

​@@jacobhill3695You wasted more time replying than you did reading. So apparently your time wasn't worth anything anyway.

This car was featured in car craft and hot rod magazines.

He ran a nice Funny Car later.

All Doug's Headers were beautifully designed and totally functional.

Well, I am glad you enjoy them and I certainly like making them.

Not only is he one of the best if not the best he’s one heck of a nice guy. I met him a few times and he always took a couple of minutes to talk and never acted rude or mean. Very humble and grateful to his fans

Thanks for checking this stuff out!

Wow! This rules. Thanks to you and Uncle Tony!!!

@@brianlohnes3079 I was sent here by a friend (to watch the twin Porsche engine Indy car), and now I'm hooked.

Uncle Tony is da bomb!

So was it a Ford Cosworth? Sure seems very similar to me. The Ford Cosworth DOHC race engine was used in Indy and F1 back in those days.

@@oneninerniner3427 No. It was the Ford 4-cam engine that was adapted from the pushrod Fairlane V8 engine. The Ford-Cosworth DFV was not introduced until 1967 into F1 and 1977 at Indy. The Ford 4-cam was introduced at Indy in 1964.

The problem with Ford's performance engines during the Total Performance era was that their best stuff was not available to the general public. GM was better at making their high performance engines available to everyone.

Mine too!

My dad restored a 67 GT390 4spd fastback in acupolco blue when I was 12 (1990). Awesome car, nothing but big block from shock tower to shock tower.

Oh yah? well I am not a chubby guy and really don't care what you are. Yup it's very cool.

Right on!

Wow! I bet it was the engine going in after his masterful paint job!! Incredible he had a photo of it in his office. Makes it even cooler!!

Lol best of everyone and still got beat by a hemi that was sold to the public lmfao were as this Ford pile of shit never got sold to the public and never touched 200mph dodge did

@@ErikKoenig-fv3nrBased on the way you seem to think, the Hemi must be a POS because a jet engine outran it. Simply ask yourself one thing: How many cubic inches was this engine compared to the Hemi? You could also ask it=f the Hemi was eligible to be raced in Indy cars the way this one was. And you really need to ask yourself why you are sofa king stupid because you couldn't pour piss out of a rubber boot with the directions written on the bottom of the sole...

So they couldn’t match the speed of a Stude…. A factory car……. I think NOT. 🤷‍♂️

@@Classickoolcars To you and the other moron- Did you watch the video where it mentioned the salt wasn't good? Do you understand how important that is? And how many runs were made versus the Stude? Did they beat this speed in just as few runs as this one made on a poor surface? Thought so. And the Stude wasn't 'factory' even though it's legendary for it's speed and tightly so. No factory final drive ratio option was offered that would have given it's speed unless you turned the engine about 10K RPM. This car was nowhere close to being dialed in and they never ran anymore or on a better day for the surface so we will never know exactly how fast it might have gone but it clearly had more to offer. And no Hemi was ever run at this small of a displacement so no comparison. Noe was a Hemi a successful Indy car engine, which this one was. Might as well say that the Hemi is a POS because a rocket can go faster. Duh... Seriously I'm done with dealing with mental midgets on this thread. Go bash someone else who just wants to argue.

Thank you Ben!

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Thank you for watching and it was an amazing time in history!!