Posted on 08/18/2018 5:08:24 AM PDT by SkyPilot
Seek and ye shall find. Eventually.
A legendary Ford Mustang that many thought was destroyed 50 years ago has been discovered rotting away in a Texas field. And it could be worth millions.
Affectionately called Little Red, the 1967 model was an experimental car that Ford loaned to Carrol Shelby to use as a test bed for the development of performance parts. Little Red and a later car, unofficially known as the Green Hornet, were the only two Shelby GT 500 notchback coupes of their era, each sporting a snazzy vinyl roof.
Shelby’s crew tinkered with the cars, trying out different body parts, engines and transmissions. Little Red was primarily configured with a supercharged 428 V8 and 3-speed automatic transmission, while the Green Hornet was fitted with a prototype independent rear suspension that never made it into production, but remains on the car today.
Little Red made an appearance at a Ford preview event in Los Angeles, where it inspired the creation of the first California Special Mustang, which aped its styling, if not performance. Shelby eventually sent the cars back to Ford for a date with the crusher, as was standard practice for prototype cars, but they both stood it up.
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The Green Hornet showed up at a Ford employee auction in 1971 and was resold several times until it ended up in the garage of Barrett-Jackson Auction House CEO, Craig Jackson, about 15 years ago. Little Red just disappeared.
A half-century of failed attempts to find it seemed to back up the prevailing view that it had been crushed. But like any good mystery, all that was missing was the right key to unlock it. Then Jackson got his hands on it.
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Latter for me.
My dad and uncle have quite a few 60s and 70s Massey Ferguson tractors that have held up well.
I’ve seen a few classic cars with an aftermarket AC that was mounted under the dash.
10 - 15 HP was a figure I heard quoted often.
If you turn the A/C off it uses 0 HP.
https://www.topspeed.com/cars/shelby/1967-shelby-cobra-427-super-snake-ar25745.html
Toyota Supra, Honda CRX, Buick Grand National, Nissan 300ZX, GM Sportside shortbed trucks, MR2, 5.0 Mustangs. Just the other day I saw an early 20s kid with a perfect 1987 IROC that had an LS2 mill.
You want to pay 400K for a 356 you just go right ahead. Check back in ten years, see who’s laughing.
I keep an old school points distributor for my 1970 Opel GT. You know, in case there is a nuclear war I can still drive
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I should get a few ignition modules and store them.
I was referring to earlier buyers who bought and held, not those paying today’s prices. You made my point for me though, thanks!
Buick Roadmaster Estate wagons for one are really taking off, believe it or not. The last of the breed, vista roof, even the woodgrain is regarded as cool. Hell of a spacious, comfortable reliable vehicle, actually pretty economical highway but loads of power, tow just about anything a full size SUV could. I just hope the gas monkey types don’t bag and slam them all, even though they do look good dropped with Torq-Thrusts.
Not really, the belt is still turning on the compressor which places drag on the crank.
All the gaskets in the heater control box of my ‘69 were rotted so I was unable to completely turn off the heat. This made driving in warm weather (yes, it can get warm in Washington!) a drag.
So I fitted a shut-off valve to the heater inlet pipe at the water pump. That took care of the worst of it until I was ready to tear the dash apart to rebuild the heater control box.
I’m used to no AC so I left it out.
That’s true. I’d like to see a graph of the average sale price of a ‘57 Chevy. It probably peaked a decade ago and is now trending downward. 57Chevy used to be the holy grail classic car but now is so old that fewer people can relate to it.
The peak has shifted to late ‘60s early ‘70s cars, which was the absolute zenith of American car greatness and so will persist inordinately. You don’t have to be part of that generation to appreciate those cars. But even they’ll trail off at some point for the simple reason that there won’t be enough people around who can relate to them. Hard to imagine but it will happen.
Funny how there are these sweet spots in auto history. Nineteen thirties (almost no forties), then mid fifties (but nothing around sixty), then mid sixties to early seventies. That’s sort of the end of the classic era but I think there’s another sweet spot shaping up in the mid to late ‘80s. That period had distinctive angular styling plus the hugely simplifying wonderfulness of early electronic fuel injection.
I had just married literally “the-girl-next-door” so never had a chance to test the bug with other girls.
The quality of the Mustang (bought it new thanks to a very high paying job in High Screwel) was so horrible, the VW Bug was an upgrade in quality & dependability.
To this day, I regret not considering the Porsche 911 at “only” $5,000 sticker...after all, I was living in Hollywood (before it became Hollyweird).
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