1970 Mustang Mach I
Fast Machine

I now had the 1969 Mustang Grande (Coupe) and while it was coming along nicely it was almost the bottom of the barrel for mustangs, besides I was making pretty good dough by now and I started looking for a fastback so I could try to use most of the interior pieces I had accumulated.  I was only half assed looking when I spotted a 70 Mustang Mach I, this car looked like it had been driven hard and put away wet even with the new paint!

This car was found at a local dealer specializing in muscle cars and classics, it was in November in northern Canada so you can probably guess there wasn't a big rush to buy it before someone else did and I actually spotted it weeks before I even bothered to take a closer look!  The car had this big ass hood scoop sticking out of it and some sort of home made grill made out of old rusty mesh material, I peeked inside briefly and seen the interior was in shambles, not the car I was looking for.  After looking around a few more times I came back to it, this was about three weeks later and decided to look at it a little more closely, it was a Mach I, it was a new paint job, it did need interior work and the price had dropped to just $5,200.00 so I decided to go talk to the salesman. 

The car was on consignment and came with a big folder of receipts, the engine alone cost over $6,000.00 and was done professionally, not by a friend of some jokers cousin and looking at the parts list it was clear this car was built for some serious speed!  This car said to be pushing over 400 horse power and once I went on the test drive I believed it, I had never before been in a car so fast!  This thing was seriously built for the track, it even had fiberglass fenders and hood to save weight, which also explained the horrible shape of the interior, it was probably gutted for the track and slopped back together when it cam time to sell.  The console wasn't even bolted down!

After trying to barter with the salesman to no avail I put down a deposit and the car was mine!  I spent another $5,000.00 on parts and stuff, an entire new interior, upholstery, carpet, dash, gauges, console, headliner, visors, door panels, tilt column, I bought some nice Crager wheels and meats, nice CD Player, exhaust and replaced the hood with a stock one with 69 stock hood scoop, (if you look at the pics you'll notice the big scoop on the 69), this car was awesome!  It could seriously compete with almost anything on the street, this car was seriously built for the track and that was a problem!

It was so much of a brute that I couldn't really drive it on the street, it was pushing over 400 HP at the rear wheels and you had two options leaving a light, light em up and possibly jerk the car sideways or try to walk away and risk stalling it, the curse of the four speed!  It was great for cruise night and when I took it to the local meeting place for old iron in my area it was greeted with oohs and aahs but hey, they didn't have to drive this thing which was a hell of a lot more like work than fun!  This thing rode like an old buckboard wagon and you couldn't hear the CD Player over the exhaust!  Not very family friendly at all, so I entered it into this areas most elite car show (power-rama) and sold it less than a week later, first day the ad hit the paper a guy showed up at 8:00 with $10,000.00 in his pocket, paid me cash on the spot, very cool, but a little creepy too!  Who walks around with a wad like that?  I had mixed feelings about letting the old girl go, it wasn't the car for me but I knew then as I do now that I would never in my life have a car so fast, this really left me with mixed emotions!  The money went towards the purchase of my next car!

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