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Subject:Re: Wait a minute, I drive a Ford Falcon!
From:Mark Tuovinen
Date:Wed, 26 Oct 2005 10:06:11 -0800

Yes I have, and while they are not the best handling car there are far worse.  I have owned, driven or rode in most every year and model between the first 1964 1/2's through 1973.  Including Shelby GT 350 & 500, Boss 302, 351, 429, 428 Cobrajets, California Specials, Twisters, Mach I's, etc.  Before I was diagnosed with Vanogonitis I was heavily into Mustangs, and served in various positions including President of two local Mustang clubs.  I sold my last Mustang, a 1964 1/2 convertible with a 4V 289, and 4spd about four years ago.  I also ran a home based Mustang parts business for a number of years and still have some inventory laying around.  Maybe I will get bored some day and build a Syncro Westy powered by a Boss 302. :-).  If you pry the Mustang emblem off of the horn button on a 1964 1/2 Mustang there will be a Falcon logo underneath it.

Mark in AK

----- Original Message -----
From: Don Spence <dkspence@TELUS.NET>
Date: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 7:43 am
Subject: Re: Wait a minute, I drive a Ford Falcon!

> Best selling does not a good car make.  Ever driven a 60's Mustang.
> Cute but crap.
> On Wednesday, October 26, 2005, at 09:15  AM, Automatic digest
> processor wrote:
>
> > Date:    Tue, 25 Oct 2005 22:01:10 -0800
> > From:    Mark Tuovinen <mst@AK.NET>
> > Subject: Re: Wait a minute, I drive a Ford Falcon!
> >
> > And yet from that "junk" Falcon came the best(U.S. market)
> selling car
> > of the 60's, the Mustang.  The two were almost identical underneath
> > the outer skin.
> >
> > Mark in AK
> >
>