Thats amazing, just hate to see a guy like him buy it to flip it.
I'll give my story; you may not believe it but it's true. There's a guy down the road from me that collected a bunch of cars in the 50's and 60's. When a was a teenager, he was the go-to guy for hard to find car parts. One time I went there he took me out to his large garage and showed me some of his cars. There was a 69 Z-28 there with about 1000 miles on it, probably the only car he ever bought new. Before my dad passed, I would take to McDonalds on weekends for coffee to see his friends. I ran into him there. He liked to talk, if I didn't know what he had you would think he was full of BS. His wife was very quiet, hardly talked at all. I asked him if he still had that 69 Z-28. His wife looked me and said, "THAT'S MY CAR'. Said it was to powerful for her to drive. He passed from cancer recently, not sure if it's still there or not.
 

Never been a fan of Gas Monkey but that is a cool mustang to find.

IMO that guy is a tool.  In fairness I've never met him, and that could just be the way he is portrayed on TV to inject mock drama into the show, but the only reason to watch that show was Aaron.  When he left that was it for me. 

As for the car, when I was in college in Allentown, PA there was a shop called D&D Performance, now long gone, which was run by a guy who was a racer.  It was all Ford stuff, and my buddy and I found him because my biddy had a '95 Cobra (still does).  The shop sold stroker kits and chassis stuff, etc.  This was back when there were still a few speed shops around that actually had inventory.  We would sometime just go to hang out and hear stories.  His current race car was a Fox Mustang with a stroked 351C in it that ran 9s after he detuned it (it had run 8s but didn't have all the safety gear and he didn't want to install it).  However, he also had a '70 Boss 9 he bought during the gas crunch for next to nothing.  He had raced it back in the day, but even by the mid '90s it was far too valuable to risk wrecking.  He said they were pretty much dogs off the showroom floor.  Remember the car wasn't built to be a dominant street contender; it was built to homologate the engine for use in the Torino in NASCAR.  They were pretty heavily detuned in stock form.  He said he got a lot of advice from Holman and Moody and others and turned it into a 10 second car at the strip.  Old race cars definitely peg the cool meter.  Those were good times.  I probably should have spent more time withe the books in college, but them I'd probably not have the great stories. 
 

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO....survey SEZ......
Richard Rawlings will NOT be invited to a MustangSteve Bash in the future !!!  (Sounds like he is uanimously disliked)
Richard Rawlings------Dick for SHORT..........
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BobE wrote:

TKOPerformance wrote:

IMO that guy is a tool.  In fairness I've never met him, and that could just be the way he is portrayed on TV to inject mock drama into the show, but the only reason to watch that show was Aaron.  When he left that was it for me. 
 

Totally agree.

Yup. It's all about the drama. Boyd Coddington was the same way. Gotta have the contrived drama. And the Orange  County Choppers show with the dad and son who were always at each other's throats. Why is it that every time they take on a job, they are always under the gun to get it done in a ridiculous amount of time. They're always running late, yet the build always gets done on time. Drama, drama, drammmmma.
 

Ron68 wrote:

BobE wrote:

TKOPerformance wrote:

IMO that guy is a tool.  In fairness I've never met him, and that could just be the way he is portrayed on TV to inject mock drama into the show, but the only reason to watch that show was Aaron.  When he left that was it for me. 
 

Totally agree.

Yup. It's all about the drama. Boyd Coddington was the same way. Gotta have the contrived drama. And the Orange  County Choppers show with the dad and son who were always at each other's throats. Why is it that every time they take on a job, they are always under the gun to get it done in a ridiculous amount of time. They're always running late, yet the build always gets done on time. Drama, drama, drammmmma.
 

Here's the real question: would you want a car/bike/house, etc. that they rushed to finish, or one where they took their time?  Yeah, me too.  I've heard that the deadlines are mostly BS anyway.  Either they only get the car so done before letting the person know (like on Overhaulin'), or the deadlines are just scripted and not real. 
 

Not a fan of that guy. The only good part of that BS show was when the upholstery gal would call him "a$$ monkey" and tell him to beat it. Flippers just seem like a scummy part of this hobby. 

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Well, I used to like" Counts Customs", Even saw a complete 69 camero he did at a local car show over here. Nothing done Mickey mouse on the car.

TKOPerformance wrote:

Hah, I forgot about her!  She was great.  The problem with flippers is that they aren't part of the hobby.  They've monetized our hobby.   

That's a better way to say it. They are present, they think they are part of it. But it's really entities that drive the hobby - suppliers, innovators, tech boards - all aspects of the hobby that are additive. These are vital and while money is a part of it, it's not all of it. The flipper thing is that they are interlopers gouging away at the hobby getting in the way of true restorers, hot rodders, restomodders. 

I'm watching Gas Monkey now.  He just bought a 65 Shelby for $300k and sold it for $400k.