Mach 1 Club

Thought it would be neat to see the first picture taken of everyone's Mach's.

Picture taken Aug 1998



My Mach was first sceen at the BrockVille Ontario Car Show with a ForSale Sign in the window. Less then a week later it was sitting on my Parents front Lawn :)



Picture taken Sept 2008



What a great first sight it was when I pulled up to the owners house in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.



Picture taken the next day in my driveway :)

This was the first photo taken of my Mach 1, I had just driven 13 hours from Sacramento with a Uhaul trailer and had a Copperstate Mustang (my Mustang Club) event 3 hours later. August 2009.

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13 hours :) Must have been quite the trip.

To get my 04 Mach I left Kingston at 3:00 A.M.....was in PA around 10:00 A.M. Loaded the car and was back on the road heading home. Got back to my driveway at 9:30 P.M. About 6:00 P.M I got to the point where I couldn't drive anymore, stopped at Buger King for some food and I was good to go LOL. Amazing how awake I was once I got home and unloaded the car. I think I was down town till midnight cruising around hahaha.

How did the 1st event go, were all your club members impressed? I purchased the 70 on a Thursday and on the Friday I headed to a All Weekend Car Show. Lots of people loved the car and people were very impressed with my purchase. Didn't end up winning anything though :) Oh well.....

Well there's still a stigma for the 71-73 Mach 1's. My club loves all Mustangs but they really don't give a lot of respect for the 71-73 Mustangs. When I had my 07 GT I liked it a lot and won about 4 Trophies. The first event I took my 07 to I was top 10 Best of Show out of about 200 cars.

My 72 Mach is still a little rough, with the paint faded and the interior needing some work. It really runs great though for a 94k original mile car. Ive sort of been waiting for the motor to cause a problem before starting the restoration, but it runs well, it has a little bit of rod knock when first starting but goes away in seconds, I understand this is a thing about the Cleveland. The car doesn't leak a drop of oil. It leaked really bad when I first got it but I replaced the front seal and the oil pan gasket and that solved those problems.

I think I'm just waiting until next summer to start doing restorations, in Arizona its 110 degrees almost all the time so that's when I usually send the cars into the shop to have anything extensive done.

Im also debating a color change on my 72 from Gold Glow to either Grabber Blue or Candy Apple red. Still not sure on this yet. Frankly its all just a money thing.

The first 2 pictures of her after I saved her from a kid who was beating her arse everyday.

I bought my 04 Oxford White used in September 2006. Here it is at the dealers lot before I bought it. Notice the Praying Mantis next to the left rear wheel! I considered it a good luck omen!

In the second picture that is my 98 GT Convertible.

Pretty cool Rare Pony, now if we can get more members to participate!

These pictures are pretty bad, but they are the earliest that I can find at this time. They go back to sometime in the first year of ownership(1972). I was not into taking pictures much then. The camera is probably a 110 instamatic. Also I am including a couple from my wedding day in 1974.

Keep em coming!!

(01-03-2010, 03:30 AM)Wiz_of_wuz Wrote: [ -> ]The first 2 pictures of her after I saved her from a kid who was beating her arse everyday.

Good to hear that you saved it. Looked pretty good though.

(01-04-2010, 12:15 PM)Rare Pony Wrote: [ -> ]I bought my 04 Oxford White used in September 2006. Here it is at the dealers lot before I bought it. Notice the Praying Mantis next to the left rear wheel! I considered it a good luck omen!

In the second picture that is my 98 GT Convertible.

Praying Mantis LOL

(01-05-2010, 06:02 AM)fhunteman Wrote: [ -> ]These pictures are pretty bad, but they are the earliest that I can find at this time. They go back to sometime in the first year of ownership(1972). I was not into taking pictures much then. The camera is probably a 110 instamatic. Also I am including a couple from my wedding day in 1974.

Those pictures are AWSOME!!!! Nothing compares to original pictures taken way back when :)