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Toby’s Eleanor Project – Getting Closer To Paint

Tobys Eleanor Project with body kit and Right Hand Drive

It’s been a long time since I posted about the project of my friend, Toby. His Eleanor has been the ‘other woman’ in the equation and whilst my car rests up in the shed Toby’s car is undergoing a faster restoration, mainly due to Toby’s tighter deadlines. (Read more…)

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Tony’s 1967 Reader’s Digest Sweepstake Pink Convertible

Tony's 1967 Ford Mustang Convertible Pink Reader's Digest Sweepstake Giveaway

I had an interesting email this week from one of my readers who was browsing the stories of the 1965 Playboy Pink cconvertible that my builder has. Tony read the post and thought he would email in the pictures of his car. A 1967 Pink Convertible that has quite a unique story to it. (Read more…)

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Richard’s 815hp 1967 Shelby Super Snake Eleanor Mustang

Richard's 1967 Ford Mustang Super Snake Eleanor GT500

Richard’s build has been one that myself and a lot of other ‘Eleanor’ enthusiasts and builders have looked up to. If one was to build an Eleanor Super Snake clone with no regard for cost than this would be it!

Richard has gone about building the ultimate tribute to the one and only Super Snake that Carroll Shelby built, which I featured a few weeks back.

The car is fortunate enough to have the last Shelby Aluminum 427FE engine (Read more…)

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Dave’s Black 1968 Shelby GT500 ‘Eleanor’

1968 Ford Mustang GT500E Petrol Station

I often come across new images from Eleanor owners, especially members of the Eleanor forums I frequent. This week member, DaveSanborn, posted up some beauties of his son’s black 1968 Eleanor creation. (Read more…)

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1968 Bullitt Mustang Clone

1968 Ford Mustang Bullitt

Speaking of the Bullitt Mustang, I just received these images from my builder of a 1968 Fastback he’s restoring into a 1968 Bullitt Clone. I don’t have much info on it but thought I would post the pictures up anyway.

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Readers Rides – Adam’s 1968 Ford Mustang Fastback S Code

Adams 1968 Ford Mustang Fastback S Code

So a couple of weeks ago I asked for you guys to email me your pictures and stories of your cars and in return I would post them up. Well due to my own project slowing down a bit (don’t get me started!) I thought no better time to take a look at some others.

First I’ll kick it off with Adam’s 1968 Ford Mustang Fastback S Code. He comments on here as ‘waldo’

Click through for the full story and all the pictures.

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