New Member, long time 71-73 owner.

[cjstaci]

Welcome. Very nice cars. Your big block plans sound great.
I have a 557 with Kasse heads that is going to go in my 69. My 71 has a 466 cj.

 

[Horsin' Around]

Damm, I miss the 70s cars like these and Leaded gas!

I would like to smell Ethyl one last time!

 

[t.kohlmeyer]

Do you still own this? They are getting far and few between.

Oh yes, she's a real keeper! Bought her from a guy in about 1984. Hed bought it to swap the 390 into his pick-up truck. I literally got it for a song. $600 and everything else was there. I had it painted, then built a 428CJ for her.

 

[t.kohlmeyer]

Welcome. Very nice cars. Your big block plans sound great.
I have a 557 with Kasse heads that is going to go in my 69. My 71 has a 466 cj.View attachment 84493Looking great! Do you have any block plates or perhaps the height of the block plates from the motor mount to the block surface. I have 429SCJ block plates for a '71 Torino Cobra. I'll trade or buy, mod these if I have to.

 

[cjstaci]

I don’t have any extra motor mount frame brackets. I think there’s a thread providing information you are looking for. You might want to list a wanted ad as someone here may have some.

 

[James Bond]

Welcome from NW Oregon, some great looking cars you got there!

 

[fuzzyflash]

Here is my 72 mach1 429 ram air. It came with headers but I found a set of manifolds for the 429cj for better ground clearance and better sound.

 

[Spike Morelli]

Here's the '67 BB GTA fastback. I did cheat a bit, I put in a 428CJ with a factory med riser aluminum intake and headers.
View attachment 84473

Bullett look alike......license plate as well

 

[dtmasoGT5]

Welcome from Southern Oregon!

 

[dtmasoGT5]

Here is my 72 mach1 429 ram air. It came with headers but I found a set of manifolds for the 429cj for better ground clearance and better sound.

DAmmmmmmnnn

 

[cwalker509]

Welcome from eastern MO!

 

[mach71351c]

Welcome from San Diego

 

[tpj71mach]

Welcome from Chicago!

 

[Flywheel]

Welcome from Southern Michigan.
Nice cars you have there!

 

[Bill Perkins]

Welcome from Opelika, Alabama

 

[RC92234]

Welcome!

 

[kevken1959]

Welcome from Birmingham, AL! Your 72 Vert is incredibly rare. I'd love to know the back story on that car. Kevin.

 

[t.kohlmeyer]

Welcome from Birmingham, AL! Your 72 Vert is incredibly rare. I'd love to know the back story on that car. Kevin.

In a nutshell, I was fresh out of engineering school at my first job in International Harvester's Melrose Park Engine R&D facility. About June of 1980 I picked up a "tradin' times" at a Jewell grocery after work. That evening I was thumbing through it and saw an ad for a '72 Mustang convertible. I called about it the next day and said I'd like to see it. The guy told me he'd had it since new but was starting a family so he needed a family car. The convertible was fun, but used lots of gas.

I stopped at his house and he showed it to me. There was the hood with the twist locks and "351 RAM AIR" on each side. I opened the hood and there was the correct air cleaner assembly. I pulled the cover and there was the 4300D carb. Long story short, it had about 65,000 miles on the clock. I looked at the build date, it said 12/71, so I knew it was legit, Q code in the VIN and all. Power windows, air, intermittent wipers, magnums, C6 with traction lock. Even the power seat back releases when you open the doors. The top boot was still sealed in the box from the factory in the trunk.

I left there with the title and keys, all for $1200. No kidding. Back then it was just an 8 1/2 year old used car. I looked it up on Haggerty last month. My best deal ever. Almost... but that's another story.

 

[kevken1959]

In a nutshell, I was fresh out of engineering school at my first job in International Harvester's Melrose Park Engine R&D facility. About June of 1980 I picked up a "tradin' times" at a Jewell grocery after work. That evening I was thumbing through it and saw an ad for a '72 Mustang convertible. I called about it the next day and said I'd like to see it. The guy told me he'd had it since new but was starting a family so he needed a family car. The convertible was fun, but used lots of gas.

I stopped at his house and he showed it to me. There was the hood with the twist locks and "351 RAM AIR" on each side. I opened the hood and there was the correct air cleaner assembly. I pulled the cover and there was the 4300D carb. Long story short, it had about 65,000 miles on the clock. I looked at the build date, it said 12/71, so I knew it was legit, Q code in the VIN and all. Power windows, air, intermittent wipers, magnums, C6 with traction lock. Even the power seat back releases when you open the doors. The top boot was still sealed in the box from the factory in the trunk.

I left there with the title and keys, all for $1200. No kidding. Back then it was just an 8 1/2 year old used car. I looked it up on Haggerty last month. My best deal ever. Almost... but that's another story.

Wow. What an incredible story. That was a good deal even back then. You were lucky to just happen on such a highly optioned car. It seems where I lived that our 71-73 cars weren't that plentiful, and you just had to take what you could get. That very year, in 1980, my Dad and I went to look at a Grabber Blue Boss 351 with 60K miles in my home town of Slidell, LA for $1,300. We passed because the gas mileage was too bad for me to use commuting to college. I bought a lot of my cars out of those "Wheeler Dealer" magazines in the convenience stores over the years. Back then all you had was that, the local newspapers, and Hemmings. Ebay changed all that!

 

[t.kohlmeyer]

Wow. What an incredible story. That was a good deal even back then. You were lucky to just happen on such a highly optioned car. It seems where I lived that our 71-73 cars weren't that plentiful, and you just had to take what you could get. That very year, in 1980, my Dad and I went to look at a Grabber Blue Boss 351 with 60K miles in my home town of Slidell, LA for $1,300. We passed because the gas mileage was too bad for me to use commuting to college. I bought a lot of my cars out of those "Wheeler Dealer" magazines in the convenience stores over the years. Back then all you had was that, the local newspapers, and Hemmings. Ebay changed all that!

Yeah, I hear you. About 1990 I had an opportunity to buy a blue Boss 351. I even drove it. He wanted cash, $6000. I said I'd have to go to the bank (I lived about 50 miles away). So I drove home, sadly the bank had closed for the day. I called him to say I'd be there the next day after work. He said "I'm sorry, someone had stopped that evening and had cash". It was gone...