May 11th, 2008
The Unique Performance auction that took place in March raised just over one million dollars to pay off IRS debts but this was no where near enough to compensate the unfortunate customers who had lost hundreds of thousands of dollars. At the time I commented on how the money generated from the auction was no where near enough. But there may be hope yet for those who have lost out with a possible second auction in the works. Read the rest of this entry »
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May 11th, 2008
Just a short update as to what is happening now with my car. Things are starting to happen again and hopefully will have a major update soon.
We’ve had a chat to the conversion guys this past week and the good news is they think they can fit in my old girl in the next few weeks and we could have the dash done fairly soon. Read the rest of this entry »
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May 9th, 2008
The search for modern components for your Mustang has now become even easier with word spreading that Australian muscle car company, Muscle Car Factory, have now secured the exclusive distribution rights for the entire Total Control Products (TCP) catalogue right here in Australia. Read the rest of this entry »
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May 4th, 2008
It was just a matter of time before someone came out with a reproduction 1967 and 1968 A/C control unit and vents kit and i’ve just noticed Mustangs Unlimited now selling a brand new kit that boasts greater strength than the original.
Unfortunately for me you may remember last year Read the rest of this entry »
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May 3rd, 2008
Carroll Shelby’s life has been documented thoroughly over the years and there is not much people don’t know about the man. However there is one little interesting fact that I didn’t know (though I’m sure a lot of people did) and that is that Shelby built and owned the very first Ford Dealership in South Lake Tahoe. Read the rest of this entry »
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April 28th, 2008
Less than a week after the 44th anniversary of the Mustang the 9 millionth stallion has rolled off the production line. On April 17th the milestone Mustang, a GT Convertible, went to a dealership in Iowa for delivery to its lucky customer.
The Mustang is Ford’s longest running nameplate having been introduced on April 17, 1964 at the New York Motor show. Sales of the first mustang were phenomenal, selling over 22,000 units of the first day alone and 419,000 in the first 12 months. Read the rest of this entry »
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April 27th, 2008
It seems the guys over at Jalopnik may have a man on the inside, someone who can comment on the Unique Performance federal felony charges we reported on a few weeks back. The reason why we think these charges were dropped points to the 25 odd state felony charges that still remain and Jalopnik’s source gives a little truth to the claim.
From what we have heard from the Dallas County D.A. they would much prefer to have Doug in a Read the rest of this entry »
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April 25th, 2008
The hype of the 2008 Bullitt Mustang may have subsided a bit but the interest around the car is still strong and influential car blog, Autoblog.com has spent a week with the highland Green beauty to show us just what she can do. Read the rest of this entry »
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April 23rd, 2008
Many of my friendly readers have commented on the upcoming products and packages RRS has in the works, specifically the Dynacorn products so I thought I would follow it up and see what they had to offer. Unfortunately a lot is still in development but here is what we have to go on. Read the rest of this entry »
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