Ford has done very little to support our classic/vintage/legacy vehicles.
They are in the business to sell new ones. Support of any of them past the warranty period and .gov mandated time is not on their radar.
Their entire club and brand support is nothing more than a marketing tool to lure you into the purchase of a new Ford. Them bringing back the GT500 name and adding Shelby to the marketing team was 100% a sales scheme since SVO - SVT and even COBRA were not adding the punch needed to boost the sales of performance Mustangs. Now that "Total Performance" seems to be a bad word at Ford I predict SA will again be booted to the curb as it was in 1969.
While the Motorsport catalog can be a great source of parts there are very few "real" hot rod parts. Most are just the overrun of production line parts or slightly modified ones made during the run of stock parts. Once they are gone that's it - too expensive to set up and make more.
Mazda has done it right - They know their Miata is loved and remade most of the parts to keep them on the road. They even launched a Ferrari like factory restoration service that runs about $40 grand per car.
https://www.autoblog.com/2018/09/27/mazda-first-factory-restored-miata/In August 2017, Mazda announced that it will be offering factory quality restoration work for the original, NA body Mazda MX-5 Miata introduced in 1989. The program also included parts support, as Mazda wants to underline how much the original Miata still means to it. The program was launched with exemplary work carried out on a Miata owned by Mazda, but the first customer car has now been finished.
The first car was picked from 600 applications sent to Mazda. Out of all these cars needing factory certified work, the 1992 British Racing Green V-Special owned by retired tomato farmer Keiji Nishimoto was chosen to be the first. The Eunos-badged limited-edition car was bought new by Nishimoto, and he told Mazda the car had been instrumental in creating some wonderful road-trip memories. The V-Special edition came in a British roadster-style color combination: "Neo" green over tan leather, complete with a retro-style Nardi wood wheel. The car also has a front strut bar and a limited-slip differential.