Ford has caught the legend with the ’12 Boss 302

Mustang Monthly ^ | N ovember, 2011 issue | Donald Farr

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And to think I sold my 70 Boss 302 for 2000.00 grand to go to school. I was such a dummy!

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Sorry, blackie, but my blood still runs hot for this '63 babe... even it she did get cancelled!

Gadzooks, that... is one sweet momma!

And the Bunny... is nice dressing even if she would be about 68 right now--

[william clark]

My dream car.

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In Fall of 1965 my Dad said for me to look for a used car for my freshman year in college. I found a former executive with Studebaker who had three for sale:

A '63 Maroon Avanti with a automoatic...

another maroon '63 Avanti with 4-speed and real wire wheels...

and a red/white top convertible prototype Lark that was to go head to head with GTO in '64... tricked out with the full Avanti drive train, 4-speed and huge tires.

Either Avanti was 3 grand and the Lark/GTO stype was $1,400 but when my I got my Dad over to look at them, he said the Avantis were too high priced and if he got me the Lark, I'd kill myself speeding and drag racing.

I didn't think so at the time, but now looking back with 46 years of hindsight, I have to admit... my old Pappy was correct!

I don't have photos of those three, but using Google I found the above representations of what I remember.

BTW my Dad finally got me a car... a brand new 1966 Lemans with a Overhead cam 6 that I beat many 287s in drag races with, of course, unknown to my Old Pappy, I think--

If red Xs above go to http://www.raymondloewy.org/images/gallery/full/auto_62avanti.jpg, http://www.sdckeystoneregion.com/images/member_cars/63%20Avanti%20R2%20L_F%20JPG.png or http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VnpZkc3GzxI/SYl7j58LgrI/AAAAAAAAC6I/SduozIcKAF4/s400/1963%2BStudebaker%2BLark%2Bconvertible.jpg

[Revolting cat!]

Just this morning I saw an abandoned red Matador.

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Was it the flying one... from Man with the Golden Gun that Scaramanga and Nick Nack used for their escape?

More pix of it:

Ni CGI here, campers... this was a real flying car!

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_James_Bond_vehicles

"The featured car in The Man with the Golden Gun. "Bond is foiled by perhaps the best trick a getaway car has ever performed; the Matador transforms into a plane." Francisco Scaramanga and Nick Nack use this 1974 car to kidnap Mary Goodnight and make their escape. In the film, the Matador coupe is converted into a 'car plane' to fly from Bangkok to an island in the China Sea. With the flight tail unit, the complete machine was 9.15 metres (30 ft) long, 12.80 metres (42 ft) wide, and 3.08 metres (10 ft) high and the "flying AMC Matador" was exhibited at auto shows; however, it could only make a 500-metre (1,640 ft) flight so for the film's aerial sequences it was replaced by a meter-long (39-inch) remote controlled model. Transformation of the AMC Matador into a light airplane occurred when wings and flight tail unit were attached to the actual car (that served as the fuselage and landing gear) and a stuntman drove the 'car plane' to a runway at which point the scene cut to the radio-controlled scale model built by John Stears."