Re: The New Project: Part Deux!
Awesome job Steve you are doing on the 72,I am so glad that we met and both pulled the trigger with selling /buying the Formula.
You will remember that I told you I had had a 64 1/2 Mustang convert,and then a 65 convert,before I bought the Formula.When I was a kid,I worked part time at A Safeway food store,during 1965.My Assistant Manager at the time,bought a triple black 65 Mustang GT convertible,with the A code 289 and top loader 4 speed and Pony interior.From 65 to 67 ,every Saturday,he let me take the car to my house on my lunch break,and wash it for him.You actually could here me smile on the way home and back going through the gears.Unfortunately in 67 a RCMP officer broadsided the car in pursuit of someone and the car was written off.I have always had a soft spot for triple black 65/66 Mustang converts,but they are really quite rare,even back then.
Well I found one,and so many similarities to the Formula story.The original owner died in 1999 of cancer,and his widow had his best friend buy the car.Ther 2nd owner,finally got tired of the car and I saw the ad.The one repaint is 30 years old,it has been garaged since new,bought in LA,taken to the Seattle area till this month when I got it.It has the most options of any Mustang convert I have ever found,it is an A code also,with a very rare $24.10 optional bench seat with fold down arm rest.Even the factory ordered air blows cold.The car went 3500 miles the last 24 years,and has 4000 miles more than the Formula has on it.The spare is original,and a log back to 1988 is sitting in the glove box.I do not know how to send pictures on the site,so I will send a couple to your email.
thanks, Grant
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