Re: 100 Rarest Muscle Cars Ever Made What They Cost Then vs Now

"1968 Ford Fairlane Torino GT"

My very first car was a 1969 fast back Ford Fairlane Cobra...........not just the 428 Cobra Jet, I had one of the RARE 1969 Fairlane 428 Super Cobra Jets. Even the pistons were forged with Cobras and 427 Leman's rods from the factory.

A kid's car in 1973, 4 speed.

At age 15.5, you could be cruising in 4th gear 60 mph and drop it down in 2cd gear and floor it and lay 2 long black rubber lines on the highway and at 80 mph drop it into third gear.


My last 2 years of school I took Auto Mechanics and made the mistake of "milling" the factory heads, which were already high compression from the factory with steel shim gaskets----as a result, every once in a while, it would blow the centers out of the spark plugs and put dents in the hood. It was a super cool school car because in the parking lot-- you could tap the gas pedal back and forth and easy get the front end up and make the car hop in the parking lot...back in the late 60's and early 70's many kids had cook cars at high school...Z 28's, Boss Mustangs, corvettes and the high school girls wearing halter tops and barefoot in school and wildest of all, when you drove your pick up truck, you always had your hunting guns in the rear window and no one ever have it a second thought.

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