Got an oil change and a VIEW (pics)

[Don M]

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


In this car


A '71 Mach 1 convertible


and a big block vette



Plenty of eye candy to keep me busy while I waited on my car!

[parshooter]

Nice. Are they for sale?

[Don M]

Nope, they're not letting these babies go

[GearHead_1]

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]

But how did their paint look?

Nice cars!!!

[Don M]

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]

Looks like an FE series engine to me, most likely a 428. I have one in my 67 Mustang. Nice cars.

[GearHead_1]

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.