07-26-2012, 02:55 AM
My story starts around 5th grade, or there abouts, but I will go back to that in a minute.
I'm guessing I was around 15 as I was not quite in High School yet. The HS aged girl across the street was being dropped off at home by a guy in a Mach 1. The first I had ever seen. Maybe to impress her, or the 5 boys checking out his car from the curb, the guy left some impresses amounts of rubber on the newly redone street. I was hooked. More by the Sport Roof and overall look of the car. The power was quite nice too!
There is now a mall in Milpitas, CA. That is where the "San Jose" Ford plant actually was. I know because somewhere around the 5th grade is when I went there on a field trip with school.
My first car was a 64-1/2 Mustang. For only one month, before I even had my license. 1988, my step dad bought for me for $1,000. Then a month later after I drove it ONCE, he sold it for $1,000. To this day he is the only person I have ever punched in the face. Years later, but that's a different story. :-)
Fast forward-
I just won a project 1970 Mach 1 on EBAY. I should have it here is San Jose from Alabama in a few weeks.
I will take lots of pictures and make a book on the build.
It is being named Debbie after my mother who passed away March of this year.
Thanks for staying to the end of my story,
Zac
I'm guessing I was around 15 as I was not quite in High School yet. The HS aged girl across the street was being dropped off at home by a guy in a Mach 1. The first I had ever seen. Maybe to impress her, or the 5 boys checking out his car from the curb, the guy left some impresses amounts of rubber on the newly redone street. I was hooked. More by the Sport Roof and overall look of the car. The power was quite nice too!
There is now a mall in Milpitas, CA. That is where the "San Jose" Ford plant actually was. I know because somewhere around the 5th grade is when I went there on a field trip with school.
My first car was a 64-1/2 Mustang. For only one month, before I even had my license. 1988, my step dad bought for me for $1,000. Then a month later after I drove it ONCE, he sold it for $1,000. To this day he is the only person I have ever punched in the face. Years later, but that's a different story. :-)
Fast forward-
I just won a project 1970 Mach 1 on EBAY. I should have it here is San Jose from Alabama in a few weeks.
I will take lots of pictures and make a book on the build.
It is being named Debbie after my mother who passed away March of this year.
Thanks for staying to the end of my story,
Zac
25 years ain't that long a time I recently figured out it's been 29 years since I had my last real monster/hotrod. It was a 71 Mach1 with a 500 + hp 351 Cleveland. I can remember the car like it was yesterday. I also realized my daughter was 6mos old when I got rid of it. Now she's 29 and man am i getting old! This sucks. Anyway Welcome, enjoy your Mach1, I'm in process of building 1 out of 3, and heres to the next 25! 
JTS 71 Mach1
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