Went to local car show on Saturday and spotted this. I almost bought this car 40+ years ago in North Vancouver and it ends up in a small town we moved to. Weird or what?

  1969 Ranchero GT 428 SCJ, 4-speeed, 3.91 Trac-Lock. Indian Fire Red really looks nice on it to.

Nice, they are brining big money too.
I still want a '66 Fairlane!

The Legendary Norm Grabowski Kookie Kar

That reminds me, i need to get some brylcreem 

A Ranchero full of brylcream?
T/F
 

Interesting, a 1969 GT grill with 1968 seats. Kinda close to what I am doing in reverse. I have a 1969 I am working on with a 1968 GT grill. Neet car, I hope mine turns out that good.

Ya don't need a Ranchero full, a little dab 'll do ya

Quote from: RICH MUISE on 2022-09-14 08:44Ya don't need a Ranchero full, a little dab 'll do ya

 

GT 40 MarkII



"Durability testing was thorough in the usual Ford way. Ford dynamometer facilities are extensive and comprehensive, able to accurately duplicate any driving pattern through computer-programmed changes of speed, load, and throttle opening. After preliminary test runs by drivers in an elaborately instrumented car (measuring and recording on an oscillograph such things as engine speed, manifold vacuum, rear wheel speed, throttle plate angle and axle shaft torque) it was comparatively simple for Ford dynamometer people to reproduce the track conditions on an engine test stand. The dynamometer cycle allowed 6800 rpm in 1st and 2nd gears, 6250 in 3rd and top, and was run for 48 hours—as compared to the 6200 limit for drivers and about 38 hours normally put on a given engine (4-hour break-in, 4-hr vehicle sort-out, 6-hr practice, 24-hr race). Thus at race time durability wasn't a question mark in any sense.

Somewhat surprisingly, the carburetion settled upon was a single 4-barrel Holley unit, rated at 780 cu-ft/m in flow. This looks odd among the multiple Webers of competing cars, but apparently does the job well. E&F wanted vacuum-operated secondary throttles opening, but Ken Miles won out and got mechanical opening. This is accomplished by a cam-and-rod arrangement designed for equal opening, primary and secondary." 

Thats interesting about the testing but I can't believe they used those restrictive 352/390 exhaust manifolds. Surely they didn't have that type in the car?

In the cars, they used "The Bundle of Snakes" headers:

Around $10,000.00

Could have bought one off the executive lease return lot for about $3600 at the time. Of course I had a problem coming up with a dime for coffee back then!