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Have you ever looked at your Mustang's deck wing, and pondered the reason that Ford bent the tips down? Those bent down tips are technically called "Canted Winglets". Today, their useage is very commonplace today on Commercial, Military, and private aircraft. Originally designed by NASA way back...

Have you ever wondered why the deck wing design on our Mustangs have those bent down wing tips. They're certainly different from many other cars. There's a reason. The wing tip design is called a "Winglet", and was designed by NASA, to decrease drag caused by wingtip vortices, and increase lift...

A photographer caught a couple of Mustang owners crusing Van Nuys Blvd, back when their Mach 1s were brand new. Pristene hardware there boys...

A photographer caught a couple of Mustang owners, crusing Van Nuys Blvd, back when our Mach 1s were new. Pristene hardware there boys.....

More engine info....Scanned from a late '71 / early '72 Engine Annual magazine,

Hey! Happy Memorial Day to you all, and we give thanks, and Honor those who serve, and have served. As an 18 year old, I was in two very different car clubs, one, was a club called the "Gear Stretchers, and I had a chopped, Hemi urged '34 Ford coupe. The other club I was in was the San Fernando...

I am always drawn to the rare, or hard to find things in life. I enjoy the idea, and people who take the road less traveled, especially when it comes to some mechanical things, like different engines. Recently, I discovered a 351c blower manifold......I wasn't aware that any one was casting one...

I keep thinking this. It's really been years now......Where have all of the good Tech articles, like you used to read in Hot Rod, or Car Craft, or Popular Hot Rodding, dissapeared to? Is it that todays magazines really don't have staff Tech writers, that can go out to various shops, to show how...

SPIKE'S Story #1 I have several stories of run-ins with the law, thought I'd share a few here. Back when I was just out of High School, I was crusing down Ventura Blvd around Noon in my '30 Ford A Coupe, and for reasons I don't remember today, I pulled a "U" turn in the middle of this 2 lanes...

I did, last year towing the drag hydro to The Boise Roadster Show. Someone caught both the car and the dragboat going through an intersection as it started to snow, and mailed it to me.

I'm gearing up to assemble a modified engine for my '71 Mach 1. The build up will include a handfull of mods which I can do at the shop, and that may very well be of interest to some other 351c owners. This engine will be in a everyday driver, so an all-out assault on power and speed is not the...

Just wondering what any of you have experienced this. I've done my own brake jobs, many times, over the years on my cars. It seems to me, that the semi-metallic front pads are the way to go on my '71. The standard "factory style" organic pads don't give as good a pedal feel, even on easy stops...

Well, I had these two ads in my files....

One day, just for the hell of it, I looked at the Internet for any cool photos of our cars with girls, Models, if you will. Well, there's scads of late model cars with girls posing with them. There's scads of early model Mustangs with girls.  But, I was suprised that there are few at best, of...

I had to add this movie......basically because my car was in it! The lead actor, "Mary Death", drives it for the first 3/4 of the movie, then, with the help of CGI, the Mach gets blown up. The production company had already shot most of the scenes with the car before anyone noticed the licence...

I recently visited a guy who deals in Vintage parts of all sorts. I bought some stuff that I had been looking for. As I was walking out to my car, the guy asked me if the Mach 1 across the street was mine, and if so, he wanted to show me something before I left. He told me that he had been at...

Holy Cow! I've been driving my '71 Mach 1 for 30 years now, the car has seen me through raising 2 kids, two career changes , a horrible divorce, a fantastic second marriage, the passing of  friends, family members, a war, etc, etc.  if you've seen my posts on this site, you'd know that this...

O.K., I'm married, I've owned my '71 Mach since well before I married my wife, and, it is my only car. My wife is on her third vehicle since we married and now has a brand new 2019 Ford Edge which she loves, and drives everyday. I have driven her Edge occasionally, and, although she thinks my...

Mach 1 and GT40.pdfThis photo is from the Mustang Recognition Guide. I've always dug the comparison...those who aren't quite sold on the 71-73 lines should look at this.

I've been checking out the various header manufacturers offerings for my '71 Mach 1 with a 351c, and have decided on Doug Thorley headers, they have thicker flanges ( 3/8ths in ) and heavy tube walls ( 14 Guage). However, from what many guys have posted, most people are using Hookers, Hedmans...