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Welcome to 69Mach1.com

This is a site that I have wanted to construct for several years. This is a site for all owners of a 1969 Mach1 to show off  their cars.

            My love for the Mustang began in around 1968 when I saw my first Mustang that my cousin had purchased. When I was 16 I brought my first Mustang a 1965 for $100.00. Now the car was not in running condition and was actually sitting in a fence row. I got it home and with much help pulled the motor out and replaced all the freeze plugs. After putting it back in the car it started right up and I was ready to drive it until my dad said he had better drive it first to make sure it was safe. Now remember this is a $100.00 car, I had a rim behind the drivers seat to prop it up because it was broke. I had put on a pair of Thrush mufflers for the exhaust system and it was a little loud. The car was an automatic with a 289 motor. Dad took the car out and drove it hard all the time telling me not to be driving like he was and when we got home the shot pump on the front of the carburetor was broken. Dad said he was going to put a block under the gas pedal but never did he however he did pay for the shot pump. My 65 might have looked like an escapee from the junkyard but out ran all the big blocks around town. If I find a picture I will post it for everyone to see.

            My next Mustang was a 1969 Grande that had a Mach1 hood this started my love and want of a Mach1. I drove this car while in college and for a few years after. Along came a girl and then children and the car got parked and later traded for a truck. There was another 1969 coupe later but it need too much work and I sold it for more than I had paid.

            Fast forward to October 2001,my father had died but had provided a small inheritance for myself and siblings. I decided that it was time for me to have my dream car, the kids were almost out of the house and it was time for dad to have what he wanted. That's when I found my dream car a 1969 Mach1 see it on the "my car" page.

Now for what this website is going to be about.

This is for owners of 1969 Mach1s to show off their cars to the world. To have you car placed on the site all you have to do is send me a picture of your door plate and 2 or 3 pictures of your car. Tell me some information about your car and include the state and town were you live. If you are at a car show or even see one around were you live submit it to me. There was only 72,458 1969 Mach1 equipment Mustangs produced lets see how many we can find. Send me any information about the 69 Mach1 that you may have so I can put it on this site. Send me links to your club or personal website

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The Mach1 started with the fastback "Sports Roof" body and added several visual and performance enhancing items such as matte black hood and optional spoiler, hood pins, chrome gas cap and wheels, chrome exhaust tips (optional), chin spoiler and a 351 Windsor motor as base with either a two barrel or four barrel carburetor. A 390 CID four barrel as well as the huge 428 Cobra Jet were also available engines. Standard on Mach1s was a fierce but cosmetic hood scoop that had integrated turn-signal lights mounted in the back. A more functional option was the signature "Shaker hood", an air scoop mounted directly to the top of the motor, used to collect fresh air and so named for its tendency to "shake" above the rumbling V-8 below. The interior came complete with teak wood grain details, full sound deadening material and high-back sport bucket seats. The name Mach1 could not have been more appropriate as in 1969, Performance Buyer's Digest put a new Mach1 through its paces at Bonneville, breaking some 295 USAC speed and endurance records. Ford kept the Mach1 alive into 1970 and little changed outside the visual. Outselling the base GT model, Ford canceled the GT altogether to make the Mach1 the primary street performance Mustang.

Or Did it

Did the Mach1 start in 1959??????

Ford had a Levicar concept that started the Mach1 series. Notice the Mach1 emblem behind the drivers head?

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I have to admit I am not the best website builder so please bear with me the way the site might look as I am trying my best.

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01/11/2011