68 Mustang 428CJ, original paint 135 car

[tom406]

Visited my friend Gary McKay yesterday and it was nice to see him turning his attention to #028, one of the first 50 428CJ Mustangs made. This is a car I've posted pictures of before. He bought it from the original owner, who raced it into the early 70s without modifying it too much (original wheel wells, springs, etc) and kept it in climate controlled storage for its entire life. It wears its original Wimbledon White paint and black interior, and its a real time capsule. Its still fitted with its original race motor, a 427 service block sleeved down to 428 bore size. The original engine was removed and put under the bench. It was recently torn down, checked, and reassembled. It will be dyno tuned to make sure everything is good, then displayed on a stand next to the car for the foreseeable future. That last picture is the passenger front wheel well-with no real undercoating applied on these quasi-"lightweight" homologation models, that's what a perfectly preserved wheel well looks like. I just stared in there awestruck for a little bit. I'm placing a wanted ad for some 15x4" or 4.5" Cragar S/S in the classifieds for this car. The plan is to display it with Cragar S/S skinnies and chrome reverse wheels in the back with large add-on Cragar centers ala the Gas Ronda '68 Winternationals car. I just got the Cragar centers off of Ebay last week.

[tom406]

The Gas Ronda car Some other great background on the 135 cars and their preparation and performance at the Winternationals at Scott H.'s awesome 428cobrajet site. https://www.428cobrajet.org/drag-racing

[Tracker1]

What a fantastic Mustang!

[Xplantdad]

Originally Posted by Tracker1

What a fantastic Mustang!

Agreed!

[Ryan1969Chevelle]

I have a real thing for 135 cars!!!

That is a special special special car!!!

Love it.

Ryan W31

[Tracker1]

Originally Posted by Ryan1969Chevelle

I have a real thing for 135 cars!!!

That is a special special special car!!!

Love it.

Ryan W31

Yeah, those first run of white Mustangs were bad-ass stormers! If anybody would care to read more about these very special cars, go here: https://www.428cobrajet.org/135

[mockingbird812]

What an impressive specimen..........original paint!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for sharing!

[ScottG]

It is a no sound deadener 135 . That is the rarest version of that rare 1968 Cobra Jet car.

[tom406]

It looks like a no sound deadener car to me, but the door tag special order-DSO is 844660, which according to Scott's site signifies a car with seam sealer and sound deadener. Not sure what to make of that-I'd have to look at an unrestored 844661 car and see if they're just running no goop anywhere at all, or if this car was built to the "lightweight" spec in error.

[ScottG]

Originally Posted by tom406

It looks like a no sound deadener car to me, but the door tag special order-DSO is 844660, which according to Scott's site signifies a car with seam sealer and sound deadener. Not sure what to make of that-I'd have to look at an unrestored 844661 car and see if they're just running no goop anywhere at all, or if this car was built to the "lightweight" spec in error.

Scott's site could be in error. That car surely has no seam sealer now..