Right here is one thing you don’t see each day: a Nineteen Sixties muscle automobile being listed on the market by its authentic proprietor. After 55 years of possession, this Mach 1 is being supplied as much as the collector market for the primary time since being offered new from Invoice Watkins Ford in Scottsdale, Arizona.

The Choose of the Day is a low-mileage 1969 Ford Mustang Mach 1 listed on the market on ClassicCars.com by a non-public vendor in Hixson, Tennessee. (Click on the hyperlink to view the itemizing)

“Rotisserie restoration carried out,” the vendor says. “Automobile was ordered in 1968 in Scottsdale, Arizona and spent most of its life in Phoenix. Completely no rust. Restoration began in 1998 by 2010 in Chattanooga, Tennessee by JJ’s Mustangs.” About 4,000 miles have reportedly been added since restoration was accomplished.

Having lived in Arizona for the final 18 years, I used to be notably fascinated with discovering out extra about Invoice Watkins Ford. Apparently, the dealership was positioned on the southwest nook of Scottsdale Street and Camelback Street. It initially opened in 1964 as Paradise Ford and on the finish of 1967, it was offered to Invoice Watkins. There’s a web site with some fascinating outdated newspaper ads from the dealership within the late Nineteen Sixties together with photographs of a particular occasion which concerned Ford’s drag racing staff.

The extent of element that went into this Mach 1’s restoration turns into evident within the photograph gallery. The outside is completed in Indian Hearth, and the paint theme is offset by black accents for the chin spoiler, air consumption, window louvers, and decklid spoiler. Sadly, the Marti Report photograph is somewhat too blurry to learn, however the vendor says that the automobile retains most of its authentic tools with exception of the radio and the steering wheel. The upgraded audio system is a Kenwood CD head unit with Bluetooth connectivity. Choices embody energy steering and manufacturing unit air con.

Energy comes from a Cobra Jet 428cid V8 paired with a console-shifted C6 Cruise-O-Matic three-speed computerized transmission. In its day, this automobile was one of many key gamers within the horsepower wars that made the muscle automobile period such a memorable time in automotive historical past.

“Automobile pushed to native automobile exhibits solely, by no means pushed on ice or snow, garage-kept,” the vendor says.

Mustang fanatics, take a better take a look at this one as a result of it’s an unmistakably uncommon alternative. Imaging with the ability to be the second proprietor of such an iconic pony automobile from the Nineteen Sixties.

The asking value is $118,000 or finest provide.

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