[tom406]

Visited my friend Gary McKay yesterday and it was nice to see him turning his attention to #028, one of the first 50 428CJ Mustangs made. This is a car I've posted pictures of before. He bought it from the original owner, who raced it into the early 70s without modifying it too much (original wheel wells, springs, etc) and kept it in climate controlled storage for its entire life. It wears its original Wimbledon White paint and black interior, and its a real time capsule. Its still fitted with its original race motor, a 427 service block sleeved down to 428 bore size. The original engine was removed and put under the bench. It was recently torn down, checked, and reassembled. It will be dyno tuned to make sure everything is good, then displayed on a stand next to the car for the foreseeable future. That last picture is the passenger front wheel well-with no real undercoating applied on these quasi-"lightweight" homologation models, that's what a perfectly preserved wheel well looks like. I just stared in there awestruck for a little bit. I'm placing a wanted ad for some 15x4" or 4.5" Cragar S/S in the classifieds for this car. The plan is to display it with Cragar S/S skinnies and chrome reverse wheels in the back with large add-on Cragar centers ala the Gas Ronda '68 Winternationals car. I just got the Cragar centers off of Ebay last week.