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There are Trans Am Mustangs... and then, there's this.
Specifications
ALLAN MOFFAT'S 1969 TRANS AM MUSTANG
Engine Type:Boss 302
Number of Cylinders:8
Cubic Capacity:5000
Horse Power:485
Aspiration:Quad 48 IDA Webers
http://www.motorsportretro.com/2011/11/1969-trans-am-mustang/ Enjoy!
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THE GREATEST
To generations of fans, Allan Moffat’s Trans-Am Mustang is simply the greatest touring car Australia has ever seen.
Even those too young to have personally witnessed its on-track performances have grown to understand its unique status, from listening wide-eyed to countless stories told by their fathers of the excitement created every time it hit the track.
Australian enthusiasts had never seen anything like it when it erupted onto the local scene in 1969. Sure, they’d already seen earlier model notchback Mustangs driven with great skill by the likes of Pete Geoghegan, Bob Jane, Norm Beechey and others, but Moffat’s ’69 Trans-Am was like something from another planet. Here was a brand new, state-of-the-art Ford factory racer fresh from the US where it had been built to topple Chevrolet in the Trans-Am wars that year. Its shark-like nose, aggressive forward rake, ground-scraping ride height and screaming Boss 302 V8 engine left no one in any doubt about its open-cheque performance pedigree.
Looking very pretty early in its career, painted in the bright red corporate colours of big time sponsor Coca-Cola, somehow this exotic factory racer had found its way to the other side of the world to be driven by a young, little known Canadian with a single-minded determination to become Australia’s first full-time professional racing car driver. To do that, he would have to earn a lot of prize money by winning a lot of races. He certainly chose the right tool for the job.
In an incredible competition career from 1969 to 1974, Moffat and his amazing Mustang amassed 101 race wins from 151 starts (or roughly two wins for every three starts!) and volumes of qualifying and lap records around the country. That stunning strike rate alone could explain this car’s fanatical following, but what made its success all the more astonishing was that Moffat was often competing against muscle monsters with far greater engine capacity. Cars like Bob Jane’s big block 7.0 litre ZL-1 Camaro, Norm Beechey’s 6.0 litre HT GTS Monaro and Pete Geoghegan’s ferocious 5.8 litre Super Falcon all towered over Moffat’s humble 5.0 litres of small block V8, during the “Improved Production” days of the Australian Touring Car Championship (ATCC) from 1969 to 1972 .
Specifications
ALLAN MOFFAT'S 1969 TRANS AM MUSTANG
Engine Type:Boss 302
Number of Cylinders:8
Cubic Capacity:5000
Horse Power:485
Aspiration:Quad 48 IDA Webers
http://www.motorsportretro.com/2011/11/1969-trans-am-mustang/ Enjoy!
Just a snippet. Read the rest in the link above
THE GREATEST
To generations of fans, Allan Moffat’s Trans-Am Mustang is simply the greatest touring car Australia has ever seen.
Even those too young to have personally witnessed its on-track performances have grown to understand its unique status, from listening wide-eyed to countless stories told by their fathers of the excitement created every time it hit the track.
Australian enthusiasts had never seen anything like it when it erupted onto the local scene in 1969. Sure, they’d already seen earlier model notchback Mustangs driven with great skill by the likes of Pete Geoghegan, Bob Jane, Norm Beechey and others, but Moffat’s ’69 Trans-Am was like something from another planet. Here was a brand new, state-of-the-art Ford factory racer fresh from the US where it had been built to topple Chevrolet in the Trans-Am wars that year. Its shark-like nose, aggressive forward rake, ground-scraping ride height and screaming Boss 302 V8 engine left no one in any doubt about its open-cheque performance pedigree.
Looking very pretty early in its career, painted in the bright red corporate colours of big time sponsor Coca-Cola, somehow this exotic factory racer had found its way to the other side of the world to be driven by a young, little known Canadian with a single-minded determination to become Australia’s first full-time professional racing car driver. To do that, he would have to earn a lot of prize money by winning a lot of races. He certainly chose the right tool for the job.
In an incredible competition career from 1969 to 1974, Moffat and his amazing Mustang amassed 101 race wins from 151 starts (or roughly two wins for every three starts!) and volumes of qualifying and lap records around the country. That stunning strike rate alone could explain this car’s fanatical following, but what made its success all the more astonishing was that Moffat was often competing against muscle monsters with far greater engine capacity. Cars like Bob Jane’s big block 7.0 litre ZL-1 Camaro, Norm Beechey’s 6.0 litre HT GTS Monaro and Pete Geoghegan’s ferocious 5.8 litre Super Falcon all towered over Moffat’s humble 5.0 litres of small block V8, during the “Improved Production” days of the Australian Touring Car Championship (ATCC) from 1969 to 1972 .
