Ok got the link to work. That is the car that Jerry Mason tried to sell me in probably 1986 for $3,500 yes thirty five hundred at the Charlotte swap meet. His flea market spots were across from mine. Boy do they take creative license with it. I do not remember a stripe or the headlight covers. I don't remember an interior. Jerry's dad worked for Bud Moore in Spartanburg, S.C. and Bud gave him the car it was worthless. It did not come from Ford with the boss engine for sure. They never put engines in any of the prototypes if they were going for NASCAR testing. Bud would have to pull it and put in the racing engine. Most did not come with suspension or rear because it all got changed for the track. This car I believe was the only one that had the convex rear window like he said to help make stable. This is a good example of how owners just keep adding things to the cars and say it was original. They were usually sealer delete and at the best a glider, no drive train or interior not needed for racing.
The one he mentions in the museum in Tenn. is owned by a local Ford nut here his name still escapes me.
Someone should do some looking for the Lincoln Mark 8 that Bud Moore tested for Ford to see if the trunk shape made it more stable than T-bird on the track. His shop was shut down several years back. Jerry Mason builds movie cars and has lots of rare Fords. Thunderbolt in his front room at shop. Has one building with nothing but 427 cars. He had one of the 427 Mustangs that do not exist but had one. I think he calls his place Mason's Rods on New Cut Road in Spartanburg. I passed by going to work just down the road at Spartanburg Steel Products for 18 years. He was tough to buy anything from very expensive.
The high wing on the chrysler cars had more effect on sideways stability than down force. I remember some of the drivers saying it felt like the hand of God had hold of the rear that you just could not spin one out.
So next time one comes up for $3,500 I will have to buy it, lol.
Had a guy stop by yesterday to look at a ranchero I have that says he was in a shop also in S.C. and the guy has several mustangs with under 100 miles. Got to check that out. He had bought one of the old Falcon flat nose vans from him and got to see the cars. Lots of treasure still out there but getting expensive.[/align]
