The 1969 Mustang Mach 1 had taught her not only how to fix a car, but why they worked the way they did. She’d torn the engine block of the Ramair Super Cobra Jet V8 down to bare metal and rebuilt it all the way up. The 4-barrel R-Code Holley carb had taken her a week to refurbish, and another three days before she figured out she’d put a float valve in upside down. Piece by painstaking piece, she’d put that car together with Pop’s and his chief mechanic’s training, but none of their help. It was all hers.
After a lot of soul searching, she’d decided to make everything as cherry original as she could until you lifted the hood. The engine, transmission, and suspension were all rebuilt with only one purpose in mind—speed. From the factory it would have run 0-to-60 in eight seconds. By the ti
