The Mach 1
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A Retrospective Look At Nine Years Of One Of The Mustang's Most Popular Nameplates.

The late 1960s was one of the most turbulent periods in modern American history. A world away, the Vietnam War was sending shockwaves to the US shores, causing abundant social unrest and change. Who can forget 1968? Two civil rights pioneers, Dr. Martin Luther King and Senator Robert F. Kennedy, were gunned down in cold blood within a few months of one another on the road to human equality. Vietnam and the civil rights movement are the two events people remember most about the late 1960s.

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I saw a show on Speed (I have it on VHS) where Ford sent over two 70 orange Mach1's to Vietnam for the soldiers to test drive. They also sent over the Lawman Boss 429 drag car. I wonder whatever happened to the Mach's?
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Those are probably pretty valuable!!
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(01-16-2010, 08:56 AM)vamach1 Wrote: I saw a show on Speed (I have it on VHS) where Ford sent over two 70 orange Mach1's to Vietnam for the soldiers to test drive. They also sent over the Lawman Boss 429 drag car. I wonder whatever happened to the Mach's?

I remember seeing the show too. I believe the promotion turned out to be a very successful marketing move for Ford because a lot of the soldiers went out and bought Mustangs.
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(01-16-2010, 08:56 AM)vamach1 Wrote: I saw a show on Speed (I have it on VHS) where Ford sent over two 70 orange Mach1's to Vietnam for the soldiers to test drive. They also sent over the Lawman Boss 429 drag car. I wonder whatever happened to the Mach's?

Are the ones you talk of talked about and pictured here

http://freenet-homepage.de/pony/lawman.htm
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Leave it to Wolfgang to have the answer. Bummer most of the cars were crushed.

It did not make sense to ship them back from Asia due to the costs involved and a lot of checks they would have needed to pass. The total program was under close attention by the asian and other authorities.
The 6 cars used in Vietnam were destroyed and wrecked. We were really controlled by the asian guys. They filmed us and followed us on our heels. They thought we were going to smuggle anything.
So the 6 asian CJ and the one SUPER BOSS were destroyed. As for the 6 european cars, I took them apparently back to the U.S., 3 of them were sold, as it turnded out quite recently (Jan. 2002). The white one was sold to David McGorman, who is still today the owner. The only other survivor is one of the SUPER BOSS, that I had sold in 2001.
Note: As to Kevin Marti's (www.martiauto.com) research, the so far CJ Mach 1 called cars got indeed the SCJ package and 5 were built together. Elton insists on 6 cars. There might be still another car being built in advance. David McGorman (current owner of the Lawman SCJ Mach1) further recalls: Another SCJ was wrecked later, as I heard (the brown one).
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