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To: dalereed
That's it.

I love the Internet.

Was that an AC 289 before you worked your magic, or was it a 427?

56 posted on 09/04/2015 6:29:06 PM PDT by TChad
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To: TChad
It was a 289 and we made a 429 for him.

We did it a year before ford came out with the 429 a friend of ours, Doan Spenser, was thick with Ford and he got a pair of blank 429 castings and machined them.

He also changed the spark plug angle 4 degrees which gave us 80 more HP.

He never got beat at the drags by a car in his class.

When he got on drugs he traded it in to Hollywood Sports Car for a motor cycle before he went and killed himself with an overdose.

I have no idea what happened to it from there except I do know that Shelby rented it for $1,000/day for 2 weeks to try and find out how we were blowing him off so bad.

57 posted on 09/04/2015 7:05:11 PM PDT by dalereed
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