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I have an original never painted 1972 Mach 1 and it has the tape stripe and not the aluminum trim. I think the aluminum trim only came on 1971 cars without the strip just said Mach 1 on fender. Decor Group and Mach 1 in 72 got the tape down there. Here are a couple pics of the car I can measure...

While you have the door off will be a great time to take the guts out clean and add new grease. It is just bolts and screws. Now when you put the rebuilt hinges back on the door is not magically going to work like new. At the factory they had a huge hydraulic machine that bent the door so fit...

I am fortunate that I live pretty close to Carolina Chem Strip. They do cars all the time and they did one I was hoping to be finished with and crushed a disc. I also have a friend that has been restoring cars for 36 years now. He has never advertised and does not have a web site does not need...

The front spoilers we hare are spoilers to redirect air and produce some down force. Some say they do nothing but put your hand out the window at 120 and see how much force there is on one and then multiply that 50 times. For the splitter to work it has to be very close to the ground. It is to...

I believe the spoiler is ABS plastic so regular lacquer paint works. Wash really good with Dawn then lacquer thinner and just lightly hit with a scotch brite. I get the correct Argent paint from NPD myself. I do not have a picture of the can or # handy. It is the SEM paint not dye. The pic is of...

The 71 and 72 were bolted on but riveted on 73. BTW you can get the glass out without removing them I just took a set of Power Windows out of the doors on a 72 Mach 1 the other day. There is wide place in the door for them to come out through. Good time to clean all the window hardware and apply...

I did some rub offs for a member then he contacted GE about changing their MACH1 lettering and they said no they would not and did not care if right or wrong they sold. Same with their hood stencil not right but will not change. That sucks in my opinion. Costs no more to do it right but they...

I have couple down in N.C. but shipping would be horrible and packing also. I think there is only one set of tooling for the NASA hood owned by Dynacorn. Drake makes pretty much nothing just puts stickers on. It is common for the arch to be high crowned and probably done that way on purpose...

Daniel Carpenter obtained the original Ford tooling for some of the 71 - 73 mustang grills but not sure which ones. They were shipped to Taiwan to run the parts. I think they polished the cavity side of the mold which is what shows in the front. The surface finish it smoother on the repo grills...

Now with all the filler and primer on the body should set for several months to let everything shrink up. Then high light and block again to have a perfect job at the end. BTW there use to be a fantastic restoration shop in South Dakota that charged way less than shops in big cities. Seems like...

The Mexican Shelby was a failure like all of the Shelby ventures. Henry Ford II got fed up with him after the 1966 year and pulled everything into Ford. Since Shelby had signed over the use of his name and it sold cars Ford kept and keeps on using it. How someone that failed at multiple car...

Welcome from North Carolina. Now bring the car back too many are leaving here, lol. I was at a show last Friday and had a guy from Virginia want to buy my 73 vert. I told him I had turned down $21,000 and just said well how much will it take, lol. I do not really want to sell the only one I...

Welcome from the opposite end of North Carolina. I am in Hendersonville, NC. I have some of all of them, two Mach 1's, Grande, and several convertibles. I am one a few original owners on here.  

Here is picture of my safety wire on an original. They were not wound that neatly or tight. Just a wire and twisted a couple times.

You probably do not want to put too much faith in the factory gauge. If you could actually hook up a gauge to the oil system so you can see a real pressure would be better. Your idle speed should be fine. My factory gauges go up and down and seem to be different every time I drive. What oil are...

I do have the 72, Q, Mach 1, T-5 with side stripes that are original. I do not have any great pictures of it. For sure you should center the hood black they were just throwing them on at the factory. This car got crashed in the early 70's with 32,000 miles on it. Has never been worth the...

I see you were asking questions on what was different from Marti. The paint code is for Medium Brown Metallic or was called that in 1973. 72 might have been different name. The Mach 1 in this picture is mine and is that color. If the radio is AM/FM and 8 track would have came from a Lincoln or...

Welcome to the Forum from North Carolina. Guys you know they did make a GT-351 in Mexico but only in coupe form. They had 351 W instead of C. Interiors were different also rear and transmission were different. Painted body color under the hood. Here is only pics I had handy of one, Ford ad and...

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