Guys, why all the false outrage?
This is ‘ops normal’ in the R model community and everyone turns a blind eye because, uh, ‘it’s a race car’. Well, uh, so is this one. LEGIT
When I bought my car (a one owner 65) and also a Carryover, both for well south of $500 each I took serious look a buying an R model. They were so hacked out they qualified for junk status. Granted this was back before ‘country was cool’ but who is kidding who? All this nonsense about ‘original sheet metal’...
A case in point, the attached R model ended up basically as a 50/50 transgender 1967 Mustang w it’s entire drivetrain long gone (Sepp Reiter’s car). Heck it even has a 67 grille in this interim pic. Was it Conley who initially brought it back?? Not sure. It has since been ‘totally restored’ as a 1965 R model and changed hands at the highest levels of value. Nary a question..... cause it’s a ‘race car’ and they, um, ‘changed engines all the time back then’.
Same w many many others. No different than this car for sale now.
Steve
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