You might see something like this: A Ford dealer in Quebec called Sud Ford. They use to drag race a 69 GT500. Hard to imagine they use to be sitting on a used car lot.
The '69s were less than desirable. Lots of them hung out at the dealers. I bought my first 1966 GT350 off a used car lot in Queens, NY. They had two blue ones sitting there (late '67)...I bought the one without stripes...paid $2400. Drove it as my daily driver....snow tires in the winter, mounted on the ten-spokes. Drag raced it in 1968 and 1969. ...put about 100k miles on it and "dumped it" in 1970 for $1900.
River Oaks Ford (Calumet City IL) often had a similar line up like that. Used to stroll through there on the way home from High School. Yeah, after looking over the Boss 429 in the show room too.
Check out this picture of what is today the largest Ford dealer in the U.S. Picture taken in late 69. Check out the price of a new Torino on the dealerships window. Boss 429, Torino Cobra, Torino GT, Boss 302, etc. Found this picture of the back side of the dealership. Looks like 64 fairlane and 69 Mustang drags cars. Anyone else have some old dealership photos? Picture of a train car in 66
I was told this is from Goodwood, not sure if it is or the year. I would like a time machine just to watch this race.
Those photos were taken at Valley Ford Sales in Yakima Washington. In 1969 the general manger of the dealership was a certified Ford performance NUT. They had, at one time, six Boss 429's. They had every Ford performance car available, including a 1969 Falcon 429 Super CJ Drag Pack. Drag Pack Cobra Jet mustangs were common. They sold a number of 71 429 SCJ Mustangs and Torinos. I bought my 1967 427 Fairlane from them. I don't remember how many GT-350's they had, but I do know they sold 6 Hertz cars. They also had a 1965 GT-350, SFM 5S155. The second photo is of a 1969 Mustang, 428 Super CJ Drag Pack that was ordered as a race car. Ak Miller handled the deal and the car came from Ford with NO insulation. When they destroyed the engine, Ak sent them one from Ford Special engineering. Last time I looked at the car, it had about 200 miles on it. All put there 1/4 mile at a time. The Galaxie was an NHRA Super Stock eliminator car. Powered by a 164 H.P. 260. It ran in SS/X and gave the Chevrolet boys FITS. With Stock heads, stock compression, the tiny Autolite carb and weighing 3550 lbs, the car ran 14.20's. That was about .3 under the class standard at the time. in 1973 NHRA eliminated the bottom classes. When they did that, we built a 1964 Galaxie for Super Stock /N. The car was powered by a 250 H.P. 352. Again, keeping within the rules, stock compression (8.2:1) using the Autolie 4100 4V carb, (Around 500 CFM) and the car weighing 4150 lbs with driver, the car would go 11.60's with a class standard of 12.15. We held the NHRA SS/N record for the better part of a year at 12.05. We used to spin that 352 9000 RPM on the starting line, shift it at 7500. It went through the traps at 8200. That's using the stock 352 connecting rods. You big block guys who are familiar with these engines will know just how much of an accomplishment that was (We spun a few bearings until we started pinning them, but never broke a rod)
