Mach 1 Club

George Hatcher Was Fortunate To Locate The Original Owner Of His Low-Mileage '73 Mach 1
March, 2009
By Jim Smart
Photography by Jim Smart, George Hatcher
1973 Ford Mustang Mach 1 Left Front View



Bob Rozsnyai joined Ford Motor Company in 1955 and went to work in Experimental Engine Engineering in Dearborn. His job was to randomly pull engines from the assembly line and run them with experimental oil filters. As a result of his talents, he eventually became a licensed boilermaker, one of three at Ford's Rouge powerhouse that provided steam energy for the entire Rouge complex. There were times when Bob worked a 24-hour day just to ensure everything was running around the clock, especially when Ford was banging out new Mustangs to meet demand during the mid-'60s.
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I've met George at the Easton MD Ford dealer. The dealer gave away a sweet red 72 Mach1 as part of a contest a few years back. He's a nice guy and that's his pretty wife.

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I've seen that color on some 73 Converts, looks great!

My Dream Mach 1 is a 73 Baby Blue 4 spd QCode

I just discovered your website-- thank you for including our 1973 Mach 1, "Baby Blue." It is a wonderful car, and we've made a wonderful friend in its first owner.

I'll never forget the first time I saw this new Mach 1 in Popular Mechanics in the fall of 1970. I was hooked, and my first car was a Light Pewter Metallic 1972 Mach 1 with a 302, 3-speed. How I loved that car! My soon-to-be wife, Kim, and I went many places in that Mustang, and I even proposed to her in it. We were involved in a terrible accident in October of 1976, and, sadly, it was totalled. We now have two Mach 1's, Baby Blue, and a 1971 Grabber Blue Mach 1 that we have driven more than all of the other collector cars we've ever owned combined. We even took it to the Ford Centennial in Dearborn in 2003. These are photos of the '71 by itself and at the Centennial, and of my first car when it was new and on that terrible day in 1976.

Thanks for all of the nice subsequent posts also! All of it was a big, pleasant surprise!


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Wow welcome to the site! Hope you stick around! We love having every Mach 1 owner in the world finding this site! You have great taste in Mustangs!
Its easy to add good ones like yours to the site! Any knowledge you can leave on this site would be appreciated! My goal is to have this site be a online museum of everything Mach 1.

I like your 71. It looks just like my 72, no spoilers, no stripe , and all blue hood.

You have a beautiful car! I wish I still had my '72. But I really had no choice-- after the accident the car was a mess. Our Mach 1 was towed to a dealer in Virginia where the body man bought the car for salvage, fixed it up, and resold it. I know it had several owners in that area, but have been unable to find out if it still exists although I have tried.

How much have you done to your car over the years? It sure looks good.

I noticed you posted a couple of shots from your wedding. Well, by our wedding in June of 1977, our Mach 1 was gone, but these are from 1975-- one from before my wife's senior prom, and the other at Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.

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Welcome to the forum George. I bet you missed this picture someone took at one of the shows at your dealer.

I remember that! I've seen your articles here and there-- congratulations! I'm glad I found this forum. It looks like a lot of fun. I'll post some more photos soon. Do you have any ideas on how I could search to see if my first car is still out there somewhere?