True Holy Grail Barn Find, 1969 Drag Pack Mustang Convertible, One of 8

This has to be one of the great cars for a classic Mustang, I mean a big block 69

drag

pack

convertible

, just eight bills. My interest has been in 71 Mustangs and particularly the 351 boss cars and 429

drag

pack

cars, so I wanted to

find

a 71 429

convertible

and they are quite rare. Now I have one and you actually took pictures of it and it was in magazines, but you know they just built, you know, a couple handfuls of those cars, so I found. one in Canada that was a 71 drag pack dragged that convertible and you know they built like eight or nine or those cars I mean very extremely rare so when you start looking at the Ford Mustang or the Shelby it's a needle that you're searching.

Extremely rare, it's a big block and it's a convertible and they are very rare so you never see them at auctions, these are not cars at this show, you have to

find

them, I mean, when I went to Canada. I went all the way to Calgary, Alberta to look at car number 71 that this guy had and we just couldn't come to an agreement on the car and then we talked and he says, Well, I have another Mustang convertible. I might be interested and give you a little better deal on that. I really am, so he had a 69 428 drag package convertible.

Can we take it down and see it and then show us all about it? Take a second to put it down I have a I have this left I have a I have to take out the lipid core Okay, do it anyway, we have the car, I had some information, the guy had had it for over 20 years. I've been in this hangar for so long. It was working at the time we were working. Now on the paperwork there was a claim that he had bought it from Peter Pista, the legendary car guy, but at that time his car business was called the Shelby Store. and it was in Canada and that on the title was still in his name when I bought the car so Shelby bought and anyway it was a pretty cool little event and we haven't even talked to Peter Pista - Bhaskar Remembered this car has original paint .

It's not pretty, as far as you know, it has beautiful restored paint, but ultimately one of these in original condition is almost non-existent. Many of the people who have seen it have done so. They told me they would never paint this car, so who are the big heavy hitters trying to buy this? Oh, I can't say it's okay, so it's a 428 drag pack car and of course it has a traction lock that was factory. It's a C6 with black power top glass backlight and its radio, power steering, power disc brakes, competition suspension, okay let's look under the hood, is everything original on the hood?

Yes, we like it. I said this car wasn't running when we bought it, the truck. They were complete parts and we put it, we put everything back to get it back to its correct parts under the hood. There were a few car parts that you know weren't correct. We will change everything, but that's how it is. this is what it would have come with it would have been with the cooler the backpack pillar i would have moved the speakers to the other side it has the price period it has the correct valve caps correct respirators what is the odometer reading you know no Everything is fine, We'll see it when we take it out and you'll take it apart and take it out here, we can see it very well, it doesn't have a battery, so I have to put a battery in it.

I don't know they wanted to start a car oh everyone loves to hear this something really big and you're not making it easy for me and they built eight of those cars so this guy was in Calgary and he had These cars were stored in a hangar of airplanes and in fact, as they were, they were all on a big, tall wall because his and his airplane hangar had pallet racks that these cars were stacked on, so he took me there. and this 69 was on a pallet rack three cars high and you had to use it as a chain conveyor to lift it off the rack and then take out the slats to lower the car and then you had to put the slats back on. on top of it so that the pallet rack stayed intact and it was a little scary when you're up here walk look at this car it was all it was like moving a little it was a little creepy we won Although I don't use that term Holy Grail, Roley, uh, maybe Maybe Carter could use it in the Mustang world.

I think this would be the best. I mean, if you look at the Mustang world, those people consider the '69 the favorite. and the most attractive one you divide it into a big block and then it's convertible, it's something like that and which one would be your most desirable. I mean, it's like the top of the heap, you know, I was in the one that showed Chicago. the Muscle Car Corvette Nationals a couple of years ago and they had all those Hemi Cuda convertibles and I think they had what they have in 2020, almost 20 cars in a couple of years of building and almost all of them it's pretty impressive to see Hemi Cuda convertible, there are almost an equal number of these Mustangs and they just haven't gotten any attention because no one, there hasn't been any trading, we were just you, we took it out, hey lady, turn it on and take it out, then, well, it shot good.

It was pretty easy, yes, he did it. It took a little bit of effort once I got it so you know there are typical things you have to do to the brake lines and the fuel lines, and since it hadn't been used in 20 years, you know, clean it. the gas tank, you clean the engine, new oil, well, new, but then there were some just a few pieces that we had to address, some things on it just weren't exactly right and, but these are basically the components that have come in this car and they haven't restored anything, but this is the engine with the corresponding number and all the work that the engine packs into the transmission is not because it was a drag race, so obviously they took over the factory and built one for racing . and the rear of the car is not correct there, it is correct when we get ready to put those things back together, so these were 31 spline axles, this is a 391 drag pack power c6 automatic and, like I said, the battery, but He moved to the trunk, so this had some life as a drag racer and Peter found out, who doesn't with the Shelby store that was his business at the time.

I think it's out of Toronto, Canada and I'm told this car was driven from Toronto to Calvary and then placed in that warehouse 27 years ago, the guys are looking at Mustangs and what makes them collectible and you look at the big block cars , the less those cars are worth the more money and then if you break it down a little bit. Also, they are the convertible cars that had very little production, some people have a Cobra Jet convertible, those are rare, yes, well, in India we talked about it before about the Cobra Jet convertibles, yes, you know, once a year you will see one. an auction of Cobra Jet convertibles, hey, you built 50 of those or something in a particular year between 69 70 71.

I think the 71 Cobra Jet convertibles they built are like 30, here's one and that car is a Cobra Jet convertible , but it has 4 speeds. and they built nine of those, so they cut it down to four speed, the '69 is black, one is a Super Cobra Jet convertible and some people, just when they say, oh yeah, a friend of mine has one of those, yeah, I said it's . it has a it has a convertible drag pack well, it's a Cobra Jet verbally I said well it's just the difference between day and night I said it's like trying to compare a Hemi Cuda convertible with a Hemi Cuda with the 440, I mean the Los production numbers are substantially higher for the full 40 cars and you just know the top of the performance headlight and the options and you know that the Super Cobra jet car has all the internal stuff forged to handle.

Firenze drag package and it tended to be rice, it has an external balancer on the crankshaft and forged components and its higher compression and it is a substantially improved Cobra Jet engine and they did not bill the curve it is a bill paid for the six you see a dynamo here and another there and for the gold coconut covered target rotor, well I'm not sure how many there are, look it up easily, it's fifty or something so the production numbers are different, you can find those Cobra Jet convertibles. If you want a super cobra jet convertible, you will probably never see another one, we are just for you.