66 6F HCS

Just click under my sigline. Mix of old and new pics.

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Scott W.
'66 HCS Mustang 289
'68 Ranchero 500 302
'69 Mustang Sportsroof 351W
ThunderSnake #57
http://home.comcast.net/~vanguard92/

Scott... no lie.. that is the finest older Mustang I've ever seen.

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"66 6F HCS" <92bottledance_spammit_@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> Just click under my sigline. Mix of old and new pics.
>
> --
> Scott W.
> '66 HCS Mustang 289
> '68 Ranchero 500 302
> '69 Mustang Sportsroof 351W
> ThunderSnake #57
> http://home.comcast.net/~vanguard92/
>
>
>

66 6F HCS

<memset@recorddeal.com> wrote in message
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> Scott... no lie.. that is the finest older Mustang I've ever seen.

Thanks. It's taken a lot of sweat equity to get her in that condition, but
she's not done yet. Still putting white reflective '69 Boss stripes on her.
--
Scott W.
'66 HCS Mustang 289
'68 Ranchero 500 302
'69 Mustang Sportsroof 351W
ThunderSnake #57
http://home.comcast.net/~vanguard92/

one80out@hotmail.com

Great car, Scott.

I feel for the P.O. I had a cam lobe go flat in a Crapmaro once and it
trashed the whole engine like that. But bent valves? That guy must
have driven the thing until the cam seized up.

I like those Minilites. Not many Mustangers seem to know they're still
available. The Vintage Wheel Works "V48" seems to have captured the
market. Not only a knock-off, they carry the dreaded fish casting.

Unsolicited advice on the "C" stripes: "Boss 399" lettering. (That's
what I get for a 4.06 x 3.85 stroker.)

Here's some cool '69 TA stuff from a post I typed up for
vintage-mustang.com in February:

On the bus on the way home this evening I was reading this article
about the 1969 Trans Am series in this old issue of Vintage Motorsport
magazine that my boss had lent me, and I came across this "as told by
Sam Posey" sidebar that I liked enough to want to share.

In 1969, Ford was coming off a poor showing in the previous year's
Trans Am series, caused largely by problems with 1968's experimental
"tunnel port" heads. Because the Shelby American team's regular driver
Peter Revson was busy with the Indy 500 on the same weekend as the the
1969 Lime Rock 2.5 Hour, an up and coming local driver named Sam Posey
was tapped to substitute for Revson. Posey not only substituted; he
won. Here's what Posey had to say about his '69 Boss 302 race car:

"When I drove the Shelby car at Lime Rock in 1969, that one-off ride
when I won? Boy, was I stunned by how good that engine was! The Ford
302 was far better than the Chevy. I would never have realized that, if
I hadn't driven both cars. The Ford just moved out in the high rpm
ranges in a way that the Chevy did not. The Chevy was torquey in the
mid-range, but it didn't have the Ford's straightaway speed.

"The Mustang was so strong. It could take being over-revved, it could
take beating on the transmission, it could handle whatever Parnelli
[Jones, of the Moore team] could dish out. That hadn't been true in
1967, but by 1969 they had learned how to build strong cars. Bud Moore
built a car to suit Parnelli's aggressive, physical style. To his
credit, Mark [Donahue, driving Camaros for the Roger Penske factory
team] was willing to slug it out with him. Especially in 1969, it had
become Mark versus Parnelli in cars that could go the distance without
a breather."

Here's a reply:

In the "Trans-Am" DVD that's out for sale right (basically a tribute to
Mark Donohue and Penske). If you watch closely you can actually see the
Boss 302's driven by Parnelli and Follmer pull the Z-28's and Javelins
on the straightaways.
The difference in top end power was astounding.

I have a friend (Ed) who has talked to Donny Araki about the series. He
tells of Posey coming into the pits and the tattel-tail on the tach
registering 10,500 rpm.

Think about it next time you "wind it up" to 5500 before you
shift.....then think about going almost twice as high!

**************

180 Out

one80out@hotmail.com

Great car, Scott.

I feel for the P.O. I had a cam lobe go flat in a Crapmaro once and it
trashed the whole engine like that. But bent valves? That guy must
have driven the thing until the cam seized up.

I like those Minilites. Not many Mustangers seem to know they're still
available. The Vintage Wheel Works "V48" seems to have captured the
market. Not only a knock-off, they carry the dreaded fish casting.

Unsolicited advice on the "C" stripes: "Boss 399" lettering. (That's
what I get for a 4.06 x 3.85 stroker.)

Here's some cool '69 TA stuff from a post I typed up for
vintage-mustang.com in February:

On the bus on the way home this evening I was reading this article
about the 1969 Trans Am series in this old issue of Vintage Motorsport
magazine that my boss had lent me, and I came across this "as told by
Sam Posey" sidebar that I liked enough to want to share.

In 1969, Ford was coming off a poor showing in the previous year's
Trans Am series, caused largely by problems with 1968's experimental
"tunnel port" heads. Because the Shelby American team's regular driver
Peter Revson was busy with the Indy 500 on the same weekend as the the
1969 Lime Rock 2.5 Hour, an up and coming local driver named Sam Posey
was tapped to substitute for Revson. Posey not only substituted; he
won. Here's what Posey had to say about his '69 Boss 302 race car:

"When I drove the Shelby car at Lime Rock in 1969, that one-off ride
when I won? Boy, was I stunned by how good that engine was! The Ford
302 was far better than the Chevy. I would never have realized that, if
I hadn't driven both cars. The Ford just moved out in the high rpm
ranges in a way that the Chevy did not. The Chevy was torquey in the
mid-range, but it didn't have the Ford's straightaway speed.

"The Mustang was so strong. It could take being over-revved, it could
take beating on the transmission, it could handle whatever Parnelli
[Jones, of the Moore team] could dish out. That hadn't been true in
1967, but by 1969 they had learned how to build strong cars. Bud Moore
built a car to suit Parnelli's aggressive, physical style. To his
credit, Mark [Donahue, driving Camaros for the Roger Penske factory
team] was willing to slug it out with him. Especially in 1969, it had
become Mark versus Parnelli in cars that could go the distance without
a breather."

Here's a reply:

In the "Trans-Am" DVD that's out for sale right (basically a tribute to
Mark Donohue and Penske). If you watch closely you can actually see the
Boss 302's driven by Parnelli and Follmer pull the Z-28's and Javelins
on the straightaways.
The difference in top end power was astounding.

I have a friend (Ed) who has talked to Donny Araki about the series. He
tells of Posey coming into the pits and the tattel-tail on the tach
registering 10,500 rpm.

Think about it next time you "wind it up" to 5500 before you
shift.....then think about going almost twice as high!

**************

180 Out

66 6F HCS

<one80out@hotmail.com> wrote
> I like those Minilites. Not many Mustangers seem to know they're still
> available. The Vintage Wheel Works "V48" seems to have captured the
> market. Not only a knock-off, they carry the dreaded fish casting.

Minilites "the originals" are available again here in the states. Not the
VWW knockoffs, the real thing. The US Distribuotr can be contacted at Main
Street Motorsport, sales@minilitewheels.com
They are Mustang specialists.

> Unsolicited advice on the "C" stripes: "Boss 399" lettering. (That's
> what I get for a 4.06 x 3.85 stroker.)

I'd thought of that, but I'm using the '70 Grabber stripes. I thought of
putting it on the backside of the trunklid also. I decided to leave it stock
when it comes to engine designation. Nobody needs to know until AFTER the
end of the 1/4. The only thing I did was use a modified Cleveland air
cleaner decal instead of the ugly orange Windsor decal. The blue and white
matches the rest of the car. I thought of using the 351CJ decal, but I
thought that a bit pretentious.
--
Scott W.
'66 HCS Mustang 289
'68 Ranchero 500 302
'69 Mustang Sportsroof 351W
ThunderSnake #57
http://home.comcast.net/~vanguard92/