My 1970 Mach 1
A funny thing happened before I even got the car. On the day I was scheduled to get the car delivered from it's cross country journey, I got a call from the truck driver who said he was about 20 miles away and wanted to confirm the directions. After I went over the directions with him, he started whining about driving his tractor trailer on a residential street. First he told me it was illegal, which I immediately told him was BS, it's legal for a large truck to be on my street as long as it was making a delivery to an address on that street and not just driving through. Then he gave me a story about if he took down phone or telephone lines I'd pay for them and he really rather just drop the car off at a shopping center parking lot. I told him I paid for 'door to door delivery' and asked him if he knew what that meant and asked him how much he planned to refund me if I went to pick the car up. Suddenly delivering to my house wasn't a problem. I then got to watch it come down my street, the antenna slapping every tree branch up the street.
After I hung up I though that he should be passing by my house any second now, since the highway he was on runs behind my house.
I turned around just in time to look out the window to see a tractor trailer whiz by with a '70 Mach 1 on the back. MY Mach 1!
What are the astronomical odds of that?
Here's the car the day after the car arrived from San Francisco.
It was gruesome looking, but it ran really well. The car was as rustfree as I had hoped, in fact it was in even
better shape than I had thought. It was a real wise decision to buy a car from California, a feeling I still have
to this day. Well worth the investment to have the car shipped across the country. Mustangs in Maine are
rarely this solid. Reading the door tag I was thrilled to discover the car was
originally code 6 medium metallic
blue, also known as Acapulco blue in previous years, my #1 favorite color! I was going to paint it that color
anyway, but since that's what it's supposed to be it's as if this car was made for me! The underside of the trunk
lid and inside of the trunk confirmed that this was that gorgeous shade of blue! I couldn't have asked for better!
First order of business was that those wimpy tires and '68 Mustang wheel covers had to go...
... so I borrowed the tires, 14x7 wheels, caps and trim rings off my Sprint.
It looks like a Mach 1 now. It was still registered and insured, so we took it for a ride.
The old girl did 105 before we ran out of highway. {and nerve, due to it's age.}
Notice how the left front marker light is missing, that's because that is a fender for a '69 Mustang.
Things are surely improving for this old car already.
It has the fairly rare factory tachometer, I was happy to see.
Virtually every interior screw has been replaced by sheetmetal screws. The interior was beyond tired.
Let the work begin!