Vintage Engine Pic

[propayne]

You are welcome Pete - It is my aim to be a mindful contributor to this sight and to add useful information.

- Phillip

[Coralsnake]

I just looked up Capitol Raceway. It was in Maryland. That probably is Koons Ford. Getting closer....

[Coralsnake]

1968 GT500 Fastback
Built before 2/15/68 (most likely January or first two weeks of February)

Automatic Transmission

Large letter Goodyears / Marchals / Front Mount Antenna

No AC / Black Interior / Tilt / Koons Ford delivery / Tested at Capitol Raceway, MD

Most likely Red, Blue or possibly Dark green Car

[Lincoln tech]

Last page - with ads 

- Phillip

Under 'Help Wanted' ---- Langhorne speed shop ad , spend a few bucks there back in the day  Very cool.

[Coralsnake]

I put all this information in the Coralsnake mainframe and came up with 6 possible cars.

One car stands out and I will post some pictures of it. It is car number #1653. Thank you Phillip for playing along

Looks like I am good at this 😉

[Royce Peterson]

Thank you

Yes on tilt. That almost looks like a Koons decal on the decklid.

Where was this magazine published?

It's Super Stock and Drag Illustrated. It was part of Petersen Publishing but the cars and articles came from all over. So the 428CJ Cougar was tested in Michigan, but the Shelby could be from anywhere. Judging by the smog system it likely was from LA or Arizona. My guess would be LA.

[Coralsnake]

[Coralsnake]

Antenna and remains of zip ties

[Coralsnake]

Automatic Transmission

[Coralsnake]

As found

[Coralsnake]

Still has the original smog

[propayne]

LOL - Awesome!!!

- Phillip

[propayne]

Super Stock & Drag Illustrated was headquartered in Alexandria Virginia next door to the graphics business where I worked.

Went out for lunch one day and there was a big dumpster filled with back issues as they were moving.

Spent lunch digging through and grabbing any Cougar related issues I came across.

- Phillip

[Coralsnake]

Winning! Sent a note to the car's owners, with a link to this thread. Enjoyable

[Side-Oilers]

Thank you

Yes on tilt. That almost looks like a Koons decal on the decklid.

Where was this magazine published?

It's Super Stock and Drag Illustrated. It was part of Petersen Publishing but the cars and articles came from all over. So the 428CJ Cougar was tested in Michigan, but the Shelby could be from anywhere. Judging by the smog system it likely was from LA or Arizona. My guess would be LA.

Not a Petersen publication. SSDI was headquartered back east somewhere.  I knew Jim McCraw (the article's author.) He later worked for Motor Trend before being hired by Ford's west coast PR office in the early '80s.  He passed away quite a while ago.

Any idea at what drag strip the runs were made?