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| RE: plugs |
| By Mike McQuesten - 06/28/2001 1:15:25 AM; IP 63.50.125.55 |
I believe that there were actual FoMoCo provided plugs for plugging the holes in the heads for the thermactor air pump. I have some stashed around somewhere that I pulled from a set of CJ heads years ago. A machinist friend said that he'd seen those plugs before. They were an odd looking thing. I'll have to dig around for them in my small parts bucket. What I used to plug the holes on my personal CJ heads were just the correct thread allen plugs. Painted the heads and they hardly showed.
Thanks for appreciating the recollections. They're the truth. It was Muggli Ford in Grandview Washington. We ran the '69 Cobra Coupe at Deer Park Drag Strip north of Spokane, WA, almost every Saturday night. We ordered the car late in '69, like early June. It was just within the deadline for ordering a '69. As I said it was a cheap as we could order it. We specified nothing for the interior and expected the cheapo cloth/vinyl bench seat with column control automatic. What came was the nice comfort weave buckets/interior. No console. Column control shift as we thought it would be. The car was black on black. Dog dish hub caps and the nice chrome exhaust extensions were in the trunk. We added Cragar SS's all around. That was it. A little carb adjusting. Removed the T-air pump (Which was such an ugly thing on that engine) and went dealer drag racing. The owner of the dealership, George Muggli, was a wonderful guy who was not into performance in anyway. He liked to sell LTDs/Pick-ups to the community farm folks. His high school age son Danny was the performance nut along with me, a 21 year old fanatic at the time. Nothing much has changed...I'm still a fantaic! It was that little 120 pound Danny that could cut the best times! The rest of us were 200+ lbs.
There was a Mopar dealership right next door. Only an alley seperated us. Anderson Motors and they were very performance oriented, hell, what Mopar dealership wasn't in the sixties? I was so proud that we had one true performance Ford in that little farm town dealership. I don't want to go on here but honest to goodness I beat one of there Six-Pack Super Bees w/4 speed in a country road drag race on hot summer afternoon. Well, I beat him once by just a fender and then the Mopar salesman beat me on the return race...by only a fender. I was looking right at his rear wheel/tire all the way until we ran out of road and high tailed it before the state troopers showed. I felt very good about beating him one out of two. The S-bee was B-stock. I got in a little bit of trouble from George for doing this during my lunch half hour so we didn't get a rematch.
As for pics.....sad to say that I don't have any. The sales manager was really enthused and I know he took some pictures before the car got sold in October. He has passed away and I know longer live in that valley. But I still have my "racing jacket"!! We got four or five of those muscle parts blue w/white racing stripes wind breakers. I remember us wearing those to the drags one night and getting a group picture. I never got a copy. I wasn't living in one place very regular then. My 19 year old son will pull that wind breaker out of the closet sometimes and wear it out with his friends for that current industrial look that's so popular. He's cool.
Thanks again. '69 Cobra Coupes are one of my favorites for sure. Was there that much weight difference with a '68/'69 big block Mustang?
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