Man, I'd love to have a 71 GTO. That was pretty much THE car I wanted in HS. 70-72. That was about as good as it ever got. One time I came very close to scoring my goat. These two kids in school, brothers, we called them the GTO boys, well the younger bro decided to shed one of the lesser models, but still, it was a 70 GTO. Blue with a weird wide white stripe down the side and a white vinyl top. Took it for a test drive, seemed like a sweet ride. Got back and just like my old man had taught me I tried to restart it several times in a row. Hit the key.......nothing. I looked over at Mike with a raised eyebrow. He yells out Damnit anyway, this car ALWAYS does this! He immediately regretted it and spent the next two hours messing with it until he finally got it to crank. Maybe I shoulda bought it anyway, I really wanted a goat.
As luck would have it a few weeks later I found my SS sitting on a little hole in the wall car lot. It had the then brand new 402 Mark IV BBC and it was anything but stock. It loped so bad it barely would idle. Ended up being the fastest car in town and I blew the doors off anybody brave enough to line up with me. Not long after I bought it I noticed this guy in a Vega station wagon behind me flashing his lights. I pulled over and the guy says Hey man that's my old car! He rattled off a long list of modifications he made to the engine. Said he seriously regretted trading it off on a new Monte Carlo and now besides that his only other car was the Vega.
Ironically that car also had the same problem as the GTO. The entire time I owned it was plagued with the mysterious no crank issue, just like the Poncho I passed on. Even more ironically it burned up after taking it to a "real" dealership requesting they find and fix the starting problem. She burned up the very next day and the dealer told me to F off. I should have kept it, everything under the hood was toast, but it could have been fixed. Then again that car may well have killed me. I had a lot of close calls in it. Guess I should quit now. Thanks for bringing back some memories. If you like muscle cars, I've owned dozens, including most of the coveted ones from the 60s and 70s. Still have a 71 Camaro SS and a 4th gen Z28.
Nice!!! What year is your MUSTANG. Is that a 428 Cobra jet motor.