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Don M
12-22-2016, 08:50 AM
I went to an Auto Shop/Performance Garage yesterday to have my major fluids changed to AMSOIL and this is what I saw sitting in their waiting/showroom:

A '69 429 "warmed over" Police Interceptor
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In this car
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A '71 Mach 1 convertible
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and a big block vette
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Plenty of eye candy to keep me busy while I waited on my car!
parshooter
12-23-2016, 01:23 PM
Nice. Are they for sale?
Don M
12-23-2016, 01:45 PM
Nope, they're not letting these babies go
GearHead_1
12-23-2016, 05:51 PM
I mean no offense, I don't mean to be argumentative and I've been wrong before but judging from the location of the thermostat housing and location of the front manifold bolt that engine appears to be a 351 Windsor. Now it may be stroked and punched to 427 CID but I don't think it's a 385 series engine. The convert would also have to be a tribute Mach 1 as Ford didn't make a convertible Mach 1. Just thought I'd throw this out there. Nice cars all the same.
Mantilgh
12-23-2016, 06:11 PM
But how did their paint look?

Nice cars!!!
Don M
12-23-2016, 06:21 PM
I mean no offense, I don't mean to be argumentative and I've been wrong before but judging from the location of the thermostat housing and location of the front manifold bolt that engine appears to be a 351 Windsor. Now it may be stroked and punched to 427 CID but I don't think it's a 385 series engine. The convert would also have to be a tribute Mach 1 as Ford didn't make a convertible Mach 1. Just thought I'd throw this out there. Nice cars all the same.

You're probably right, but I do remember him saying it was a 429, but I was drooling brain fluid at the time, but I think he might have said it was punched out. I WAS wrong about it being a '69, it IS a '68 because I remembered he told me that it had been at SEMA, 2007 with a 2008 GT 500 sitting side by side as a "Then & Now" display.



But how did their paint look?

Nice cars!!!

I DID check the paint and it looked pretty darn good on all the cars close up and from different angles ... no swirls etc.
mustangmike88
12-23-2016, 08:41 PM
Looks like an FE series engine to me, most likely a 428. I have one in my 67 Mustang. Nice cars.
GearHead_1
12-23-2016, 08:43 PM
Looks like an FE series engine to me, most likely a 428. I have one in my 67 Mustang. Nice cars.
Probably a good call and it would be native. I looked but couldn't discern the intake going under the valve cover.