Vintage 1964 289 High Performance Mustang Road Test

I love finding vintage stories or cool articles from back when the early era Mustangs were on sale and this is one of those stories. While checking out the Mustang Monthly blog this article stood out.

It seems the writers of the blog are situated in the Petersen Tower on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles which houses The Petersen Publishing archives, “a national treasure from the late Robert Petersen’s company” (Read more…)

[VIDEO] Clive Sutton Take Classic Recreations Eleanor For A Drive

Two weeks ago I posted quite a long video of the Clive Sutton tour of the Classic Recreations factory in Yukon, Oklahoma. Well there’s yet another video from Clive Sutton floating around but this time it’s taken back in the UK and gives a quick review of the Classic Recreations Eleanor which they have on sale there.

So if you have some minutes to kill and love videos of Eleanor being driven around then look no further. Check it out after the jump. (Read more…)

[Road Trip] Visiting Eleanor, Bullit Mustang Replica and The Paint Booth

As some of you may know my car and Toby’s car are both being restored in a neighbouring state, over 10 hours by car away in the country. So as you would expect it’s not too often that I get to go down and visit John and see what kind of things he has on the boil. But last week I took advantage of a public holiday long weekend in Australia to go down and pay a visit and see what cars John had in his stable. (Read more…)

Classic Recreations Extended Factory Tour Video With Clive Sutton

You may all remember the great video The Oklahoman created in which they toured the Classic Recreation factory and took one of the cars for drive. Or maybe the short review video of the Classic Recreation car on sale now in the United Kingdom at Clive Sutton. (Read more…)

Toby’s Paint Update: Paint And Stripes Laid Down

Great progress this week for Toby’s car with the some nice confirmation pictures that show the paint laid down along with the main stripes and side stripes.

Last we heard was the car was prepped and ready for paint. But a few weeks (Read more…)

Putting A 1966 Mustang On The Roof Of The Empire State Building

Here’s a really cool story that’s been dug up from the Mustang vaults. Back in 1966 Ford wanted to celebrate the fact that its Mustang was the hottest-selling car in America and so it was decided they would display one of their cars on the 86th floor of the Empire State Building. (Read more…)

Will It Be Like This When I Bring My Eleanor Home?

Well it’s been really quiet this past week with not a lot of news or updates to post. Last I heard from Toby was last weekend his car was having the black applied and the striped marked out, but no updates or photos just yet. They should be coming very soon.

So anyway I got restless and started looking around for (Read more…)

Yet Another Rosen Systems Auction Offloads Unique Performance Shells

We all remember the first and second Unique Performance auctions with the aim of recouping the some $1.37m dollars owed to the IRS. Well it seems they still had some of Unique’s shells to part with and managed to auction them off this past week. (Read more…)

RRS 3 Link Rear Suspension Purchased

Well it’s been quite some time since I bought parts for my project. I can’t even remember what the last thing I bought was. Though this week I felt the urge to spend a bit of cash, mainly because RRS had a great deal going on for their rear suspension kits but also because I was just itching to have something happen with my project. (Read more…)

Classic Recreations Eleanor On Speedvision Supercars Exposed

Two weeks ago I posted about SpeedTV’s Supercars Exposed program running a segment with Eleanor. This week I can now bring you the video! Check it out after the jump. (Read more…)