There seems to be some varying views on the history of the R code car. I will attach the link in the description to an article with a lot of history for this rare car.

I still have my dad's 67 Shelby GT 500 and my 65 fastback with a 351w AFR heads. In the early 90's we had a 69 Mach 1 428 CJ with the shacker hood. With 3.91 or 4.11's it was fast. Used used to smoke Buick Grand Nationals and 5.0's Those were the days.

That's a Bute 👍. had a 69 Torino Cobra 428cj , worked hard in a gas station and took me almost a year to finally pick it up 😉 I was 17 and two thousand dollars in 1983 was a lot of money considering I was making it at the rate of $3"52per😎 . Anyway that's a great one and I'm glad he's driving it, pretty to look at but, it's made to drive.

I'm a GM guy, but dang it, a big-block 'Stang sure checks the boxes off. Love that exhaust roar through the long passes--that mother's healthy.

I was in the Navy with a guy whose dad had a red one.......................saw pictures, was a very nice car.

Nothing like a mustang! 🙌🔥

One of my favourite cars ever

Wonderful, wonderful video of a beautiful, beautiful Mustang!! Thank you for sharing it. This really brings back wonderful memories of my own ‘68 ½ 428 CJ Mustang GT - I’d love to have it back! Mine was red with black stripes, ram air, 4-speed with the Ford shifter, which I preferred over a Hurst shifter because of the Reverse gate location and you had to activate a pull-slide lever to access reverse. The interior was black with the deluxe Rally interior option - wood grain dash (with warning lights for low fuel, door ajar, park brake, and seat belt) and console and the wood grain overhead console with map lights. It also had the most accurate analog clock I’ve ever seen on any car. Climbing into it make you feel like you were climbing into the cockpit of an aircraft. It had 4:11 gears and the throttle roll-on acceleration was phenomenal - it would almost literally “leap” from 60 mph to 85+ mph with just a slight touch on the gas pedal. I learned early to not punch on the gas pedal to quickly pass cars at around 60 to 70 mph because it accelerated so quickly that you could greatly exceed the posted speed limit. My technique was to just rotate my foot quickly poking pressure on the gas pedal with the outside of my shoe and very quickly rotating my foot back again - that would give me a “leap” in speed to quickly pass. I’ve only read the comments of one other owner that mentioned this technique. The downside of my Mustang was that it didn’t have power steering, and it had the heaviest clutch pressure I’ve ever had on a car, even more than my later 1970 429 CJ Torino Brougham. I loved to watch the expressions of people as it idled because the sides of the car would rock up and down rhythmically about 2 inches with the exhaust note. It was soooo much fun to drive. Mustangs are hard to get out of your system - I still drive a 1970 Mach 1 351C 4-bbl. Again, thanks for your video and especially for the ride-along.

Beautiful car. I miss my 1970 428 CJ 4-speed Mach 1. Thank you for posting. Good luck to the lucky owner.

mmm 428 68 mustang wish i had one this ones a beauty

Most cool for sure… I had an 67 GTA with an 390 and miss very much so…..

“I mean, I’m having all kinds of fun at like 40 miles an hour” - truth be told! lol

Being born in 1965 I love mustangs, fastbacks and mach ones my faves! This one is almost a KR! One of my dream cars! I love me some box fenders also, but that's another passion of mine from the 70's and 80's. Who wouldn't give up a mustang 2 for an Audi B2 with a turbo and all wheel drive?

Front corner window vents. Best

The second car I owned had this motor in a 1969 Mach 1.

I drove one identical to this one many times in the early 70s. That Cobra Jet is no joke.

Love Mustangs

I love the car the colors are beautiful and the horn is hilarious👍

AWESOME "FORD PERFORMANCE"

Nice location and beautiful car. The collaboration was with Bob Tasca not Carroll Shelby. This is the real deal King of the Road.

Aftermarket exhaust. No transverse muffler and dual resonators. 8k tach. So many don’t have a tach!!

Those big block FE Mustangs are so fun to drive you got that right thank you for your video it made want to take a drive in mine

God bless...the owner bought it to drive it. My kind of dude.

Let’s see one in orange and black…❤️

I owned a black convertible with a c 6 and 391,s. And it came from Tasca also. Still have the window sticker. That was so much fun.

I WANT THAT!!!

Excellent commentary and fine content that made for a superior video. Thanks Theo. U of MN Alumni in SoCal.

sweet ride!

I'm born in 65 and have a 68 small block fastback in my garage. It's a lovely beast to play with . I love it but if you want to go fast it gets dangerous by road handling and brakes. It is an iconic machine and I'm glad I have one . Thanks for the nice video , Cobra Jet 68 's are rare.

Years ago I spent a bunch of time rebuilding the suspension, brakes, and steering (and tuning the engine) on an early Mustang. The owner used it over one summer, then sold the car. I asked why, after all the money and time, they had gotten rid of the vehicle. They said simply, It drove like an old car. That is the sad fact with unmodified Pony Cars.

“in the center of the ruff.”

Thanks for the post! I've been watching similar videos for a few years and learned more in 10 minutes than I have in watching hrs from other channels!! Could you share what the dyno result was? Thanks again

sure miss my 69 drag pac r code .. the only car to ever beat it was a 440 six pac challenger ..

Awesome car. Really desirable.

I thought a Ford "R" code indicated a 427 c.i. engine! It does for the Galaxies of that era.

Wow what a car!!! Awesome

What a car! Thanks for educating us!

Very sweet/rare ride that sounds/looks awesome.-

My best friend ordered a 1969 Mustang with a 427 390 hp engine, When the car came to the dealer the car had a R code 428. My buddy was pissed but later found although Ford listed 427 as an option, they never sold a single 427 Mustang. All cars that were ordered with 427 were sold with a 428 Cobra jet or Super cobra jet.

I have a 428 with names and numbers cast all over it, Has 2 set of numbers side by side like 39- 43 29 - 63 all the way down heads and block , sets of 8, Names all over the intake and it’s 427 with 6090 J heads, block has names on bottom next to oil pan, The chrome valve coves looks like they had large stickers at one time all around the top with names pressed into the lip where it bolts down. Drove in in the field where it’s been setting for years, Carburetor also has names cast into it as well, has numbers like 1.5 3.3/4 all over it, put diesel on it to keep the rats and mice away and the old engine numbers and names showed up, 8E13 number by oil filter. Don’t smoke and runs great, the old rust bucket is parts. Anyone ever seen this on a old engine before, Large A or 8 on passenger side block,

I owned one and loved it.

Hey I'm from Bemidji, cool video! Subscribed 👍 keep it up

Fabulous car. FyI, no Mustang had rear sway bar until 1970.

When he said he'd dyno'd it, I thought he would mention the power.

Very entertaining lol, pardon me the inaccuracies and description terminology caused much of that feeling. Beautiful car and thanks for sharing it. Glad you got some much needed time in it to work on your heel toe shifting. The toploader can take it...the 9 inch rear can take even more! BTW rust is very common and still prevailant in rustbelt salted or salt air states regardless of the brand of car.

if if I didn’t have one I would take back everything

Dang, that girl sounds so good in a driveby.

if they make some of those again with all the flaws...i would prefer that to a new one even if the new handles and are faster...i just like old timey fun. i wish i was there when those cars were new

What's the rattle at idle?

When he gets tired of it , message me !!

Did those have the quadrojet on them??

Looks quite emaculate is it for sale

The 427 was a much better and more exciting engine. I saw a great many 428 powered cars get beaten at the at the drafg races. The 428 was best suited for big dull passenter cars. You couldn't give me a 428.

No rear lovers from 68

That’s not the original head. Liner?

Carlite glass?

2500 rpm at 65? Those are highway gears! If it was geared low it would be screaming at 65 like 3500 rpm

Where’s the overhead consol

Sweet car! Dorky driver lol.

Not or fender bolts

Price

Is the owner looking to sell?

Why no seatbelt??

Pig in paint

Be real don’t loose you mind ! Really

Correction: @12:15 "...they used the 428 Police Engine and put 427 heads on it...." No, no they didn't. This info is easily available. Please stop spouting misinformation.

only thing wrong with it is that it isnt in my driveway

A lot wro I

Wembleton white is rare. Wembledon white Is more common. 😂

painted trans

This is NOT a concourse restoration! They NEVER painted the complete underside of the car. Never.

Bunch of grumpy know it alls , wow It clearly says its not a perfect resto. Done the way the owner wants so to him its perfect and I agree . Curmudgeons..

Lots of mistakes in this video . .where to start? First GT has nothing to do with a tachometer. If you are truly doing 65 at 2500 RPMs, that's nothing. Are you a car guy? As a retired Auto Instructor and Mustang restorer for over 40 years . . .nice car. Lot's of things wrong here, and yes it bothers me :)

Why would you stick with that shit exhaust in the first coming down the road sounds crap

A friend of mine had a blue 68 mustang GT that he said w as a 427. I bought the heads off of it when he had changed them to 390 heads for some weird reason. I was thinking maybe it was a 428 but the more race proven 427 was quite rare. The heads were not the dual bolt pattern CJ heads so I guess it was a real 427. I didn’t know the numbers back then as I was 16 years old and really didn’t care at the time. Those heads really woke my 390 up and I always wondered why ford didn’t put a decent head in the 390gt torinos and mustangs. Thats all it takes to make a 390 run with the 396 Chevy.

What would you know? That pony is before your time... 🙄