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Shelby American History / Re: 289 Engine Overview on YouTube
« on: March 26, 2024, 11:44:19 PM »
Where were the '68 and later 302s built and where were the '82 and later 5.0l built?
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Yes. While there were "Cheapness" qualities about the car, it was the right car for the time. Massive shift in the auto industry for polution control coupled with a few oil embargo's and greatly increased fuel/oil costs. When the II was new, Boss cars, Shelby's, 426 Hemi's were going for pennies because people couldn't afford to operate them. The II was a great car seller at the time also. It kept the Mustang name going and we are thankful that the Mustang name continues. Most of it's rivals can't claim that.
Will SAAC follow suit and ban the Shelby Mach-E from open trace events?
As woke as Ford has become I'm surprised they just didn't buy out the Formula E series.
Not quite a list of FORD antendees, but...
I found a list of the FORD Board of directors in July 1965 with a photo
Pertersens' Archives has nothing for LAX such as the open house.
The Henry Ford Collection has some photos, but nothing was noted about who was there.
Revs Digital Library does not seem to cover the event either.
There is NO LIST of the Ford excutives who attended the open house on June 7th, 1965.
A few different books and magazines have some captions that note a few Ford Execs who were there.
I suspect there are still some unturned stones to be discovered.
I recently had lunch with the man who was the Petersen Museum archivist. Super nice guy, and loves automotive history. He previously worked for me at MT.
He told me that he and one assistant scanned something like 1.6 million images into the Museum's system. But, about a year or two ago, the Museum decided that such a project is too expensive (his pay, and that of the assistant) and let them both go.
For now, the museum is calling that project done. There are still millions more images sitting in metal file drawers hoping to be scanned someday, maybe.
Never give up the search!