Awesome Sidchrome 1969 Ford Mustang Mach 1 Pro Touring

Awesome Sidchrome 1969 Ford Mustang Mach 1 Pro Touring

This time we have an awesome story, which comes from the Australia. The team behind this built is Sidchrome, and actually they are building a giveaway car. This barn find 1969 Ford Mustang Mach 1 is from California, which is not in a very bad condition, but the Sidchrome has a different plan for him. Their plan is to make a complete transformation into a Pro Touring muscle car monster, which also will look awesome and will have drivability like a modern Mustang. The entire car has been disassembled and blasted, while the engine will be completely rebuilt. The interior also will be customized to match the overall concept and will be equipped with a modern equipment. After the complete rebuilt, this Pro Touring 1969 Ford Mustang Mach 1 looks amazing. Under the hood has a Ford鈥檚 351 cubic-inch, 5.8-liter small-block Windsor V8 engine, which now delivers 407 horsepower and 427 lb.-ft. It has a complete new RRS suspension that is connected to Harrop 15-inch rotors with 6-piston up front and 14-inch rotors with 4-piston calipers at the back. In addition, it is equipped with a Forgeline wheels equipped with a set of Pirelli P Zero tires.

More importantly, they bettered top Camaro/Firebird performance and at least equaled that of the Chevy Corvette. Skidpad grip was worthy of the standard Recaro racing front buckets. At last, Mustang could claim a place at the very top of the performance hill. 54,995, plus luxury and gas-guzzler taxes -- and just 300 copies available, all red coupes and all quickly sold. The Cobra still had some face-saving to do, and the 2001 model went a long way toward making up lost ground. Reviewers were thrilled by the Cobra's power and precision. The Mustang Cobra had come a long way in 2000, but reviewers and drivers wanted even more -- as in street performance to rival the competition. Ford partly answered that challenge for 2001 by reinstating the regular Cobra with all 320 horses accounted for. Car and Driver put two cars on a dynamometer just to be sure, then reeled off 0-60 in 4.8 seconds and a stunning quarter-mile of 13.5 seconds at 105 mph.

The same could be said for other 2001 Mustangs notwithstanding their less impressive performance. Unlike the Cobra, the base and GT models added several styling features of the 35th Anniversary package, including a raised (but still nonfunctioning) hood scoop, special side scoops, and a reshaped trunklid spoiler, plus black headlamp surrounds. Changes were otherwise few -- a new console, standard 17-inch wheels for GTs, a few options shuffles -- until midseason, when Ford fired a Bullitt. Mustang's star attraction for 2001 was the midyear GT-based Bullitt coupe, named for the classic 1968 movie starring Steve McQueen and a hot '68 fastback. The cockpit was dressed with special seats and leather upholstery, an aluminum shift knob and pedal trim, Sixties-style gauge graphics, and chrome doorsill plates with "Bullitt" in Art Deco type. Ride height lowered by 0.75-inch also helped appearance, as did red-painted brake calipers peeking through five-spoke 17-inch American Racing "Torq Thrust" wheels mimicking those of McQueen's movie ride.

The 2001 Mustang Bullitt sported chrome doorsill plates with "Bullitt" in Art Deco type. Ford also retuned the GT's Tokico shock/strut units, installed specific antiroll bars, and added "frame-rail connectors" to calm body shake. Finally, the GT V-8 got a larger throttle body, cast-aluminum intake manifold, smaller accessory-drive pulleys, and a freer-flow exhaust system. 26,230 and up. Still, Ford had no trouble moving the planned 6500 units. Most were painted Dark Highland Park Green, another echo of Steve's car, though black and dark blue were available, too. The 2001 Mustang Bullitt cockpit was dressed with special seats and leather upholstery, an aluminum shift knob and pedal trim, and Sixties-style gauge graphics. Mustang sales totaled 138,356 for 2002, a worrisome 18.2-percent drop in a year when zero-percent financing had stoked the general market to red hot. Then again, mainstream Mustangs once more showed little significant change. Indeed, Ford's big move for '02 was to turn popular option groups into prosaically named models: Base Standard, Deluxe, and Premium, (all upgraded to standard 16-inch wheels), and to create Deluxe and Premium GT models. In the spring of 2003, the SVT Cobra reemerged.