The swap wasn’t as big as a Columbus or Carlisle, but it was of respectable size. We spent quite a bit of time going through it and I got some pix of items I wanted for the 429 Megasite parts pages. It’s always a blast to look through everything!

There were so many thousands of cars, I really couldn’t figure out which ones to take pictures of. I have hundreds of pix, but here’s just a few samples.

Friday night was our first ever 429 Group meeting. Art made arrangements for us to get the meeting room at the Marriot we were staying at and we ordered a bunch of pizzas to munch on.  Rich brought a copy of the original “Gone in 60 seconds” with the 73 Eleanor Mustang. We watched the chase scene with our pizza, then put in the tape of my car, Dan Davis’s 429 Cougar and Dan Schotts 73 429 CJ Convertible at Milan Dragway. Our special guest, editor Jeff Ford of “Mustang & Fords” magazine shared our pizza with us and kept us all laughing. After dinner, we went around the room and each person talked a little about their Mustang. It was really a pleasure for me to meet everyone in person and I hope we can do something like this again at a future show.

The car Bruce is standing next to is a 71 429 Mustang from Australia that was brought over to take part in a cross country Mustang drive. We were never ever able to locate the owner. The rest of the pix are of cars from my wanderings around the show.

Saturday night we had dinner at a local establishment called “Bar-B-Cuties”. They had great sandwiches and the bannana pudding for dessert was great!
 

I had to be back at work Monday so we had to leave Sunday morning. Bruce joined us for breakfast and helped us load up. As we went through Bowling Green, Kentucky, we couldn’t help pulling off to swing by the Corvette Museum for a photo op! I know my panorama above doesn’t match up real well, but I wanted to show the strange yellow gizmo with the red pokey thing sticking out of it. Not sure what that was all about but I guess it looked dramatic? Anyway, took about 10 hours to get home. Dropped off Art at his house and Rich helped me unload at my house and left right away for New Hampshire. We had a whirlwind 4 days but it was an outstanding time!

The photos above are all of group member Jerry Bryant’s 429 CJ Mach 1 doing laps on the super speedway. It was really neat to see one of our 429 cars out there!

I took lots of pix of cars on the track – here’s a couple I liked.

The track and grounds were so huge, I took some panorama shots to give a sense of just how big it all was and how many cars were on hand.

Various shots of the showfield and track. 3rd photo from right shows the 71 – 73 section of the showfield.

The vintage Mustangs were located east of the grand stand and the late models were on the west side (note the Yellow Mustang Club and the dark ones are Bullits). These views from the stands show how big the show was – Mustangs stretched out nearly to the horizon in both directions. All concours cars were set up under the grandstand to provide shelter from the elements. One of the few negatives of the show – the vintage cars were set up on a dusty gravel parking lot.

This photo was taken Thursday before there were very many cars. The same lot was nearly full on Saturday.

There was no way I could fit the track all in in one photo so I did the best I could piecing these pix together!

Lots of group members attended the 40th. We were never in one place all at once so I tried to take pictures when I could, but I still might have missed a few!

Doug Wolf’s 429 SCJ

Jerry Bryant’s 429 CJ

Jerry Ostalecki’s Boss 351

Bob “Boss” Wilson’s concours Boss 351

Jimmy Bennick’s 429 CJ

Miles DeCoste’s concours 429 SCJ

John Blair’s 429 SCJ