I think folks out there have latched onto the mythical number of "64.5". From talking to the various people throughout my travels, so many have owned one, had a family member who owned one, friends, acquaintances, etc. Makes me believe that more people have owned the famous 64.5 Mustang than there were actually produced.
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Back in the 80"s my wife and i were driving on our way to the Oshkosh air show in my "Home built Moon Crawler".
Going through Milwaukee in the pouring rain, blue lights appeared in the rear view.
I thought "what the hell, in this rain storm" are you kidding me!
A state trooper hauls me over and walks up to the vehicle and I ask him whats going on and he replies "nothing sir what is this"? I just ain't never seen anything like this and wanted to get a good look at. after about 5 minutes of conversation he asks where are we going, I tell him, to a hotel just up the road a few miles. He says stay close and follow me and gives us a flashing light escort to the hotel.
One of my better and most interesting law enforcement encounters.
Nope
This was 2017. If she hasn’t tried to go after me for looking so damn good (haha), safe to say that she probably wont.
I did have some good conversation about my car with the firefighters and lone police officer after the ambulance left. The primary reason for these guys lingering was the police officer’s cruiser broke down, so they were just hanging out with him.
As I got ready to leave, the firefighters egged me on to do a butnout… i looked over at the cop, looks me dead in the eye and says “what am I gonna do, chase you????”
My favourite burnout ever done.
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Back in Oct 2019 I was driving Josep's newly purchased '73 F100 from Seattle to my home in Texas. At about 2:00AM I stopped at a convenience store/gas station in Price, UT for gas and coffee. The F100 was the only vehicle in the parking lot and I was the only customer in the place. As I was sitting there drinking coffee a young couple (mid-30's) came in, looked around, walked over to me and asked "Are you driving the F100"? I looked around to see if maybe somebody else might be in the store who could be driving it and said "Yes, I guess I am". The guy asked "What year is it?" and I replied "73". The girl started jumping up and down, pumping her arms and screamed "I WIN!". The guy proceeded to tell me that they made a bet in the parking lot concerning the year model and the girl obviously won the bet. They said " Beautiful truck" and left. I guess they were driving by and saw it sitting at the pumps and had to stop and ask.
This is the F100 at a different gas station.
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This is the F100 at a different gas station.
My car is unfinished sitting in the garage. Pretty much mocked up though. Here's the view.
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People across the street walking their dogs see it and always say what year etc. It's going to get bad once it's out on the road I guess if I get this with it sitting in the garage in raw form.
But anyways one guy came over and said he knew of someone who had a Fastback SS. I said you're thinking of another car. Then he says he used to be a cop. And this one time they were parked and eating. Got a call that a Mustang and Camaro were speeding doing 160ish and coming their way. So they fired up the police truck with headers and saw the cars coming.
They chased them down blowing past them doing 202 MPH and the cars went off the side of the road. And they were only in 3rd gear. Had two more to use if they needed it.
This guy went on and on and I'm thinking can't you see I'm working on my car. Say a few words and carry on. But nope. This guy just kept going on babbling.
People across the street walking their dogs see it and always say what year etc. It's going to get bad once it's out on the road I guess if I get this with it sitting in the garage in raw form.
But anyways one guy came over and said he knew of someone who had a Fastback SS. I said you're thinking of another car. Then he says he used to be a cop. And this one time they were parked and eating. Got a call that a Mustang and Camaro were speeding doing 160ish and coming their way. So they fired up the police truck with headers and saw the cars coming.
They chased them down blowing past them doing 202 MPH and the cars went off the side of the road. And they were only in 3rd gear. Had two more to use if they needed it.
This guy went on and on and I'm thinking can't you see I'm working on my car. Say a few words and carry on. But nope. This guy just kept going on babbling.
I can't wander into Austin without a good weirdo experience. Outside of Travis County I tend to get a lot of people who "had one just like it" and they're religiously armed with an arsenal of bad specifications. Get folks who had a 67 "Mark 1" equipped with a 3 on the tree, 63 fastback with the original 383 under the hood, 78 Boss 302, I could go on. The 70's fried a lot of brain cells
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