I bought a 69 Mach 1 428 R code Cobra Jet !!! I've been on the down hill side of of finishing my 68 Convt and had been thinking about a Mach 1 one I ran into a guy selling a all original car that had been sitting for 18 years ! The story is the original owner bought the car in 69 and drove it until about 1978 when he hit a dog and decided to park it for awile, time passed and he went to start it and it was unable to about 7 yrs ago, he ran into medical problems and it forced him to sell it to the 2nd owner.This guy bought it and knew notheing about cars so it sat at his place, he collected some NOS parts for it and ran into some tight financial times as well. In addition the the complete car I also received the following: NOS tail panel, NOS hood moulding, NOS tach, NOS pop open fuel cap,Build sheet,Original 69 Title, Marti Report (Fords version of PHS docs) Shaker hood, Driver fender.

I changed the oil/filter,rebuilt the Holly carb installed a set of plugs, wires, cap and Pertronix on it ran the pump to good fuel and got it running...

Here are a couple of pics of after I drove all night and loaded it up.
Back to Georgia I drove.. The car was about 30 miles South of the Virgina line..