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Kelly Graefe had plenty of good reasons to hang onto his 1970 Mach 1 Mustang. It was a really nice car, he had owned it less than two years, and he wasn’t dying to get rid of it.
But when he got a chance to trade up from his 351 Windsor-equipped ‘Stang to a growling 428 Cobra Jet beast, he only needed the slightest of nudges. “My wife said we deserve it, and that was all the encouragement I needed!” laughed the resident of Wausau, Wis. “It wasn’t that much!
“I liked my other one, but this one became available and, hey, a big-block is a big-block!”
So Graefe made the swap of Mustangs at Kuyoth’s Klassics, a collector car dealer and restorer in tiny Stratford, Wis., and he hasn’t looked back. The bright orange — officially called Calypso Corral on the Ford paint code charts — 428 Cobra Jet Mach 1 travels loud and proud wherever it goes with the Graefes in the front seat. As far as Kelly is concerned, a ’70 Mach 1 with a 428 is pretty close to the top of the pyramid when it comes to Mustangs, and with raised-white letter tires, rear spoiler, read-window louvers, CJ hoop scoop, fat black racing stripe, bright orange paint job and plenty of decibels howling out of the dual exhaust tips, the Mach 1 never lacks for attention. “At a car show, everybody comes past and then they go, ‘Oh, it’s got a big-block!” Graefe says. “Hey, that’s what attracted me to it.”
read more: http://www.oldcarsweekly.com/car-of-the-week/car-of-the-week-1970-ford-mustang-mach-1-428-cj
