Posts by MHutch_66Mustang

A few more things that came to mind. The add I found on topclassiccarsforsale.com has several inaccuracies.

The transmission wasn't original as far as I know. My uncle blew what we thought was the original in a bad downshift at Elkhart Lake in the early 80's. The HiPo was entirely made up of parts from other Ford/Shelby cars - except maybe the flywheel. the rear axle may have been original but the diff unit wasn't - it was 4:11 when I bought it and I changed it to 3.00 in 1986.

The car had been hit hard in the front drivers side and likely rolled at some point. I'd guess that either the car was significantly rebuilt or the VIN was moved from my car to another body that was in better shape. My plan had always been to find a rust free body and move the powertrain and VIN but life got in the way before I had the $$$ and time to do it.

It had traction bars welded on at one point and when I took the leaf springs apart the bolts were zig zagged from the leaves sliding. In other words, the car had been run pretty hard at some point.

Matt

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I used to own this car with my Dad. My uncle bought this car in the late 70's or early 80's and the HiPo was long gone by then. We always assumed that it was scattered in pieces on some mid-west dragstrip or was scavenged when the car was wrecked {welds on A/B/C pillar where the roof was replaced and crumple damage on the drivers side front inner fender/cowling}.

The engine in the car when my Dad sold it in early 2005 was pieced together from parts he accumulated to get enough date-code correct parts to build as close to original as possible. My Dad had just started at Ford in engine design in '63 and drew/released some of the drawing for the HiPo engine. He became obsessed with building an accurate HiPo for the car after retiring from Ford in 1996 and in ~1999 installed the best one of 3 HiPo's that he built.

I used to own this car with my Dad. My uncle bought this car in the late 70's or early 80's and the HiPo was long gone by then. We always assumed that it was scattered in pieces on some mid-west dragstrip or was scavenged when the car was wrecked {welds on A/B/C pillar where the roof was replaced and crumple damage on the drivers side front inner fender/cowling}.

The engine in the car when my Dad sold it in early 2005 was pieced together from parts he accumulated to get enough date-code correct parts to build as close to original as possible. My Dad had just started at Ford in engine design in '63 and drew/released some of the drawing for the HiPo engine. He became obsessed with building an accurate HiPo for the car after retiring from Ford in 1996 and in ~1999 installed the best one of 3 HiPo's that he built.

Hello,

I'm a former owner of 6T09K134680. It was in my family from late 70's until I let my Dad {regrettably} sell it in late 2004/early 2005 when he had terminal cancer. I've just recently thought of trying to track down the car and saw it mentioned on this site. I have a lot of history on the car from those years and some background on the HiPo engine that my dad put together from original parts for it if anyone is interested.

I'd love to have the car back but I see it's been restored into a GT350 clone so it's really not the same car I remember. Regardless, if it was for sale, I'd be very tempted.

Matt