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(man, these guys are on a ROLL!!!)
Tom Mangert has a perfectly logical explanation for how he has managed to keep his gorgeous 1969 Ford Mustang Mach 1 since he ordered it new in the summer of ’69.
“I kept this one strictly by Jupiter lining up with Mars, you know what I mean?” laughs Mangert, a resident of Waupaca, Wis. “It’s pretty amazing stuff.
“I never would have believed it. No way. But I’ve always been taught if you have earn things and pay for them yourself, you take care of them! You don’t pound ’em up when you pay for them. I footed the bill for the whole thing — insurance and everything else — and when you buy stuff and earn the money, you take care of it. I never pounded the car, and that was really the key to the whole thing.”
The muscular Mustang, with its rumbling 428 Cobra Jet engine hidden under a menacing hood scoop, didn’t have a particularly easy early life. It survived daily driver duties for a quite a while and even a few harsh Wisconsin winters as everyday transportation. Somehow, it is none the worse for wear and still looks like a nearly new car.
“After 50 years of driving, last summer in 2019 it did turn 100,000 miles, but they were good miles. This car did not jump into a bridge abutment or wrap around an oak tree,” Mangert says proudly. “I stopped driving it in winter in 1975. For the first few years, it was my regular car and I actually had a trailer hitch on it and towed the boat. I took the trailer hitch off when we re-did the car in 1986.
read more:https://www.oldcarsweekly.com/features/car-of-the-week-1969-ford-mach-1-mustang
Tom Mangert has a perfectly logical explanation for how he has managed to keep his gorgeous 1969 Ford Mustang Mach 1 since he ordered it new in the summer of ’69.
“I kept this one strictly by Jupiter lining up with Mars, you know what I mean?” laughs Mangert, a resident of Waupaca, Wis. “It’s pretty amazing stuff.
“I never would have believed it. No way. But I’ve always been taught if you have earn things and pay for them yourself, you take care of them! You don’t pound ’em up when you pay for them. I footed the bill for the whole thing — insurance and everything else — and when you buy stuff and earn the money, you take care of it. I never pounded the car, and that was really the key to the whole thing.”
The muscular Mustang, with its rumbling 428 Cobra Jet engine hidden under a menacing hood scoop, didn’t have a particularly easy early life. It survived daily driver duties for a quite a while and even a few harsh Wisconsin winters as everyday transportation. Somehow, it is none the worse for wear and still looks like a nearly new car.
“After 50 years of driving, last summer in 2019 it did turn 100,000 miles, but they were good miles. This car did not jump into a bridge abutment or wrap around an oak tree,” Mangert says proudly. “I stopped driving it in winter in 1975. For the first few years, it was my regular car and I actually had a trailer hitch on it and towed the boat. I took the trailer hitch off when we re-did the car in 1986.
read more:https://www.oldcarsweekly.com/features/car-of-the-week-1969-ford-mach-1-mustang
