I'm typically a car guy
Cars, bikes, boats, anything with a motor, right?!!! We recently bought this Mach 1 from my brother, he hadnt driven it in 5 years, finally convinced him to sell!
In Fall 1971, both my brothers custom-ordered their 1972 Mach I Mustangs the same week. It took 10 weeks to get them. One brother had his completely restored in 1996 in his Van Nuys, CA neighborhood (it had the dual Ram-Air hood with dual exhausts and could run 170+ MPH, which he did twice in the 1980s), and it lasted 2 days before it was stolen and disappeared. The other brother still has his: 11 years ago it quit running (squarebore quad problems, couldn't find another one) so he started into resto: 2 years ago he finally got it done and found both a NOS power steering pump and a NOS squarebore quad for it. That one has the Cleveland 351W and he added the Ram-Air package (that is a lot of parts!) and dual exhaust. He lives in Missouri now, drives it to our favorite boyhood haunts where we used to live there as boys. At that same time (1971) I ordered my factory-custom-built 1972 El Camino with 402 CID/365 HP & Cowl Induction Hood, Muncie 4-speed, positrac, air suspension with custom light alloy wheels: biggest POS in my whole life! In 13 months I drove it 37k miles, had it in Chevy's shop with engine out 2 times for dumping oil all over my driveway constantly, it ate 4 power-steering belts and 2 sets of tires, and got 4 MPG (honest! 4 MPG!) in city driving in wintertime. I drove it to Florida (from IL where I lived then) in 12/72 and got a high of 12 MPG in florida, 9-10 MPG the whole rest of the trip, with a 17-gallon tank. I parked it in 1/1973 and sold it to the first guy to come to the door with cash-in-hand, got 30% of what I'd paid Chevy for it. Never again...
