I've been too busy to post this before, but ever heard of a Cobra Falcon?

1970 1/2 429 SCJ Falcons were the stripped down Fairlane which was a stripped down Torino... this was a departure of the Falcon being the compact car that was built up to December of 1969, it now was a 2 dr sedan.

Ford brochures showed that the 429 CJ and the 429 SCJ could be had in any of the intermediate sized cars, but not the station wagons.
One was in the Feb 1990 Musclecar Review, and I was going to get around to posting just how rare these are, and how you've probably never heard of them either, I never had... but the March '08 Musclecar Enthusiast has one. It's also here: http://www.ostalecki.com/ostalecki.asp?page=itemsforsale&type=273

And what do you know, one also shows up in the March '08 Muscle Car Review, and both the white on in Musclecar Enthusiast and the yellow one in Muscle Car Review are now owned by Jerry Ostaleki, and both are talked about in both articles (without mentioning that the other would be in the other magazine) probably because the magazines are owned by Primedia, and Amos publishing companies.

According to the Marti report, 90 Falcons were optioned with the 429 CJ Ram Air, according to the 1990 Musclecar Review story Ford built 126 SCJ Falcons. Anyway you look at it, they are rarer than Super Stock factory cars now, as they weren't treated very well in the musclecar drag wars of 70-71-72. The Super Stockers were, adn there are more still around. The guess of the owner of the Cobra Falcon in this months magazine is that only about a dozen exist.

For more on the Torino's, Talladegas, Cyclones, King Cobra, Twister Torino's, TorinoCobras, Falcons, and the '70 Torino sales brochure go here.. perhaps the best webiste for the Torino http://www.torinocobra.com/main1.htm

According to Ford Production Facts printed in 1988...
The 429 was available in all models of Torino, Fairlane and Falcon 1970-1971.
The Cobra was available in all models except the Falcon 1970-1971.
The SCJ was available in all except the station wagon 1970-1971.
In 1970-71 (2305) Fairlane and Torino sports-roofs (aka fastbacks) and formal-roofs (aka hardtops) were built with the non-GT option and the 429 CJ, of these 97 were 4 doors and 11 were station wagons.
In 1970-71 (811) Torino sports-roof, formal-roofs and 4 doors were equipped with the 429 SCJ according to the book all were 4 speed cars.
[So for both '70 and '71 model years combined, there were 811 other non-GT, non-Cobra Torinos built.
and for an interesting tidbit (4)429 SCJ 4-speed ram air Station wagons were commissioned for Berkley Ford in Calif.

Back Seat Betty on the cover of Rod and Custom!

From last June,
http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2007/06/when-hot-rod-customizer-builds-tribute.html#links
Rod and Custom online doesn't have anything on Back Seat Betty, but if you do like custom jobs, here are some wallpapers they do have for you http://www.rodandcustommagazine.com/wallpaper/rc_freestuff/index.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OUvFCw8QXA&feature=user

How car company logos have evolved

http://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/18/evolution-of-car-logos/

The 70's weren't so good for some cars, like this R/T S/E 71 Challenger station wagon

http://www.autoblog.com/photos/challenger-wagon/649254/ for the gallery
For the story http://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/20/ebay-find-of-the-day-challenger-wagon/

Aussie muscle cars are 4 doors, or utes (think Ranchero or El Camino)

Here's a PDF of the new 4 door Cobra GT Falcon with a Boss 302 kW, yeah, quite a play on the classic "Boss 302" visual cue callout on the hood
http://www.fpv.com.au/media/34501/Cobraflyer.pdf

Hard top convertible Mustangs

http://bradbarnett.net/mustangs/timeline/94-98/95/index.htm

States that the 1995 was "the only year for the convertible hardtop, and with only 499 models available, it has become a sought after collectible. The hardtop/ragtop was installed as a prototype on a few V6 and GT Mustangs, which have found their way into private hands, but were never "officially" produced. " With about 2 dozen photos, and http://www.themustangnews.com/gallery/showimage.php?i=92&c=12 has some more

In 1966 a Ford designer who was the man behind the retractable hardtop '57 - 59 Starliner was tasked by Ford to get the 67 Mustangs a hardtop convertible option package, which didn't happen in production due to the weight of the motors etc to retract the top.

http://www.mustangblog.com/index.php/2006/ebay-1966-retractable-hardtop-convertible/

What made me look into this was that Tere had a copy of Mustang Monthly that had a 1966 "Towne Top" detachable hardtop. http://www.mustangmonthly.com/featuredvehicles/mump_0801_1966_convertible_towne_ragtop/index.html

Dory Development Corporation of Salem, New York made these limited-production hardtops for Mustang and Corvair convertibles, about 200 of them, and 3 are known to still exist.

Wheelstanding competition, but the front just kept lifting, and the car went vertical and then fell over backwards

Greg Leidecker's Chevette

I just watched this in Speed TV, the Byron Dragway Power Wheelstanding Championships
http://www.byrondragway.com/Home.html

Chop Cut and Restore... a Speed tv show

http://www.speedtv.com/programs/chop-cut-rebuild/
In season 4, and fixing a '75 Bricklin and a 65 Impala, one of the shops working on the Bricklin is San Diego shop "Syndicate" 5620 Kearny Mesa Road
http://www.syndicateauto.com/

Trying to stay dry

Out of the garage in prep for the summer car shows?

Morris Minor

Hasn't been used in quite a while, damn shame

Conferring with coworkers... aka goofing off

early 2000's Cobra Mustang, just neglected and left to rust

Station wagon drag racer, with fender skirts.....

Just what is up with this truck? Undecover cops?

Twins, seperated at birth, and now only blocks apart, after different lives

Struck me as odd that these 2 Novas appear to me as the same year, and both have the fender gills, but are worlds apart in condition.

This will change your mind on what it means to "off road"

http://www.howeandhowe.com/videos.htm for many more vidoes of what this can do!

a scratch-built tracked vehicle created by Howe & Howe productions. It's very fast -- its 650-horsepower blown 427 CID V8 rockets it from 0-50 in 3.5 seconds and lets it run up to 80 mph. It's also very agile, sporting a suspension with fourteen inches of travel that lets it handle bumpy terrain with aplomb. In fact, the Howe & Howe guys say it's the fastest tracked vehicle anywhere.

From Autoblog, July 2007 http://www.autoblog.com/2007/06/15/ripsaw-ms1-touted-as-fastest-two-track-vehicle-on-terra-firma/

For just pics http://www.howeandhowe.com/ripsaw.htm

If you like being at the drag strip, click on the link to see some incredible photography

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Wow, great photography

Click to enlarge

http://www.ramp-magazin.de/ via http://www.chromjuwelen.com/de/wissen/ab-15.-november-am-kiosk-ramp.html

Just beautiful

1955 Mercedes Benz W196 ''Silberpfeil''

via:

http://www.chromjuwelen.com/de/szene/ausstellung-chromjuwelen.-autos-mit-geschichte.html