Cobra Jet Mustang

Some of the time you discover the darndest stuff where you never anticipated that would discover it. I was chatting with a long-term Ford mate, Art Cairo of rural Detroit, who claims Henry Ford II’s own irregular 289 Hi-Po Mustang hardtop, when I listened to a delicate thunder on the garage.

It was this auto—a 1969 Cobra Jet SportsRoof, a long way from its unique origination in San Jose, California. Strangely, it was likewise conveyed to DSO 72, Ford’s San Jose deals area not a long way from the Milpitas get together plant, at Frank Cate Ford in Elk Grove simply outside San Jose where it was conceived.

At the point when Ford kicked this Mustang body almost 50 years back it was clad in Black Jade, which is an exceptionally dull metallic green. Dark Jade is certainly not an extremely prevalent shading, and we’ve seen our offer of Black Jade autos that turned into an alternate shading—a well known shading in 1969 however not all that famous today.

What enlivened Tim to purchase this auto in an online closeout was its motor, Ford’s incredible 428 Cobra Jet FE enormous square plant. “As an enthusiast of great Mustangs with FE control, I purchased a 1967 fastback with a transplanted 428 Cobra Jet amped up with double quads and a Top Loader four-speed. I was prepared to shake,” Tim reveals to Mustang Monthly, including, “In spite of the fact that that ’67 Mustang was an impact to drive it required a considerable measure of work.” Tim at last sold the auto to look for what he extremely needed.

The crude interest of the FE arrangement huge square was its genuine torque—not the reproduced torque of the present current overhead-cam little bore/short-stroke screamers. The 428 Cobra Jet utilizes huge uprooting, which means a 4.130-inch bore distance across with 3.980 crawls of stroke. We’re talking 4 by 4 creeps of ground-beating turn at the movement light and in the water box.

The Cobra Jet, with its beast torque, stood NHRA Super Stock on its ear at the Winternationals in January of 1968. Nobody knew it was coming until the point when it arrived and started punishing GM, Chrysler, and AMC horse autos and intermediates. “What the heck is in that Mustang?” veteran hot rods inquired.

By the present innovative principles, the 428 Cobra Jet is a dinosaur. In any case, it will in any case split a 10-11– second quarter-mile slipped by time effortlessly. It rocks. It rolls. It gets the consideration of wistfulness fans who affectionately recall what it did to the opposition in 1968.