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I also got mine.   Flipped through to check out some stuff.  Placed on the bottom of the reading stack.  But there is just a magazine and a half finished book ahead of it. 

Photo's are of a Blue car, description had "Red".  All terrain.  "Worried about the vehicles history, Don't Be!".  "Shelby Base"?

And....since I can't "Swing by" the dealership to test drive it, and then they offer shipping.....Yes Please!  Ship it to me and I'll test drive it.....If I like it I'll wire you $90,000 but then you will have to REFUND me...and if I don't like it, the "dealer' can ship it back. 

I hope no one gets bit......

Sounds like the IVR.  When mine failed, the electrical gauges all took turns pegging.  Then return to normal...NOPE, one is headed back to peg again.....wait it didn't make it but here comes the.....  It's a pain to get to on some of the cars. 

It seems there are always people with a lot of money, buying into what they perceive to be investments.  I remember the market crash of October 1987. I was building a shop.  I had the funds to build the shop with sweat equity, or buy a 1966 GT350.  I decided to build the shop.   Then the market lost 20 percent.   Lots of people cashed out of the stock/bond markets and bought into items they could "put their hands on".   Art, Wine, antiques, CARS.  By the next year, that GT350 had doubled in value.  Many were purchased by people who heard about "GT350" when they wrote a check for the car.   It also happened with art work, wines.   I was waiting for the news where someone saw a bottle of some fancy antique wine sold for $10,000, so they bought a bottle for $8000.  Great deal!   (for a 1976 bottle of Bartles & James......LOL). 

I will wait a month and see, but so far I never saw it.

Why wait?  Logoff.   Then log back on and look for the tiny check box for staying connected "Forever".  It isn't the default.  I've not had to logon since the new forum went live. 

Great advice above. 
My 428 did this also.  My timing was off.  The running on you describe is a hint towards that.  You might need to have the distributor reworked if you are confident and triple checked the timing.
I also had to learn on big blocks (428), how they like their coolant in the radiator.  on our 302 Mustang, I can fill the radiator to within about an inch of the top of the place where the radiator cap forms the seal.  Look inside the radiator and you will see the lip.   That worked fine for the 302.  So that would be the top tank filled to halfway when cold.  I tried to do that with the 428 and it would dump out coolant.  I'd refill it.  It would dump it.   Once I got the timing correct, it would still dump coolant.  I discussed with a long time Ford man who had built the motor and he said let it dump it.   Then let it cool.  The next day, check the fluid and call him with the results.  The coolant then was about half an inch over the top of the down tubes within the radiator.  I called him and he said "perfect....that's where about all the 390's on up will have the coolant".   I also learned to ignore the electrical in-dash temperature gauge here in Texas.  It will be just a needle width under halfway when fully warmed and driving down the freeway at 65 MPH.  When I stop at a light, it will start creeping up until it is at the 3/4 mark on the way to HOT.  It never reaches the full HOT side.  But you can really feel the heat under that hood, on that firewall, in the garage when I park it. 

On our daily drivers, about 3 or 4 times a year, I remove the air filters and drop them flat on the driveway.  Surprising how much dirt will drop out on the first drop.  Subsequent drops don't knock out as much.   I replace them on the mileage recommendations.  The interior cabin filters on the three newer cars get changed once a year. 
If you filter was really dirty, there might have been a slight increase in response. 

i used wax&grease remover on mine. soaked in a cookie sheet. worked great on the one i found under the carpet.  i'm not sure it would remove old tape.  great find

Not in our area of North Dallas/Ft Worth.  All the car washes are open.  Some good one's changed hands and became terrible.  Well according to social media.  I hand wash in the driveway.
Some fast food places have shut.  Some needed to.  Terribly run and run down in quality. 

Look, when the full-body hazmat suits came out I couldn't watch anymore!   

    Scott.

I thought of Marty McFly.....

Thanks for the great story.  Jim and I traded parts that are still on my 428 Mach CJ.  He got my set of 1969 Shelby mags. 

Easy fix.
Go to your Profile.
Find the Ignore Board,
Find 'Florida' in the regional section and check the box.
While you are at it, go ahead and check 'Lounge' AKA 'Toe Knees Lounge' box too.

What if, you block someone and miss out on a car for cheap?

Personally, when I get on any forum, not just this one, I always "Show posts since my last visit".  Once I'm done browsing, I click on the "mark them all Read".  Then on my next visit (later in the day or the next), I only see what is new. 

You still see the post of the people you have on Ignore.  If you notice one that might interest you, or they posted in the For Sale, a simple click on the hot link that is presented and you are reading the post.

Ban the spammers and trolls...

Spammers have to sign up, then start spamming to be then banned/removed/IP Blocked.
Moderating "Trolls" is slippery.  Everyone's definition of a troll is slightly different.   It has been documented here how to "not see" people you consider to be trolls.   

His dad kept a spare base engine already rebuilt.  His dad could swap engines in a morning.  The local Corvair guys would come over for advice and get his dad involved in their projects.   I don't remember if there was a spare transmission or two sitting around for immediate installation.  Their one car that wasn't a Corvair was the mom's station wagon.  The one with the 327.......

Wasn't it more about Ford covering it up and really not that much per the amount on the road? If you ever looked in a trunk of a 65 Mustang, that protection is not much to brag about?

Yep.   The axle had to be pretty hot, the impact enough to rupture the tank and shove it into the axle, which was hot and the metal sparking due to the impact.  I think the sparks were pretty much always going to happen.

On the OP, not many vehicles can be parked up next to a concrete wall, then run into with thousands of pounds, and not crumple.  But the last 20 or 40 years of crash testing has fostered massive safety improvements in vehicle designs. 

I remember Nader's "Unsafe at Any Speed".  Published in 1965 and going after the GM Corvair.   GM had just about copied the swing axles of......Volkswagon's VW "Bug", the darling of the 1960's counter culture.  GM used the swing axles from introduction in 1960 through the 1964 model year.  By 1965, the year of the Mustang AND the new designed Corvair, GM eliminated the swing axle design.   Everyone remembers the book published in 1965 and not that big bad American Company had already fixed the problem.

I went to college with a guy whose dad loved Corvair's.   My buddy drove a 1965 Corvair Corsa, the sport model.  Flat 6, 4 single barrel carbs, close ratio 4-speed.  Fun car!  His family owned EIGHT Corvairs.  My friend said the funniest things was watching his dad go to work everyday.  His dad would sit at the breakfast table, reach up and behind him to the key rack, with keys to 8 Corvair's.   He'd grab one, look at it, then lay out the keys for the cars he'd have to move to get that randomly selected car out of their garage and driveway.  His dad had a rare 1969 (last year of production) model.  GM wanted it back.  His dad showed me the letter.  It came close to saying "We want it...name your price".

His dad wouldn't drive or own a 1960 thru 1964 Corvair because he agreed, the Swing Axle cars were unsafe.