(from page 18 of the 1968 Collection)
Rear right view of a Candyapple Red 1968 Mustang convertible.
(from page 18 of the 1968 Collection)
The top is up on this Candyapple Red 1968 Mustang convertible.
(from page 18 of the 1968 Collection)
Interior view of a 1968 Mustang convertible. The carpet and floor mats are also red. You can just make out the Mustang Pony on the passenger side floor mat.
(from page 18 of the 1968 Collection)
Check out this blue 1968 Mustang hardtop. Lyndon Hartz had it on display at the 8th Annual Main Street Fight Against Multiple Sclerosis Car Show in Princeville, Illinois. He drag races it! It has a roll cage, a turbo charged 302ci V8, and an automatic transmission. Last year he ran the quarter mile at 11.25 seconds and 121 miles per hour.
(from page 18 of the 1968 Collection)
This is the left side of Lyndon's Mustang. Fresh from the strip. Check out the tire rubber on the lower rear quarters behind the wheels.
(from page 18 of the 1968 Collection)
Blue 1968 Mustang hardtop, right rear view. About 17 cars were on display at the show.
(from page 18 of the 1968 Collection)
Lyndon built the turbo system. Fresh air comes in to an air cleaner in the driver's side fender (lower left corner). It is compressed through the turbo charger, routed back to the front fender and around to the front aluminum inter-cooler, then back into the passenger fender and out across to the carburetor.
(from page 18 of the 1968 Collection)
The interior is black with custom gray seats.
(from page 18 of the 1968 Collection)
The car has roll bars and the seat has a racing harness.
(from page 18 of the 1968 Collection)
Gray 1968 Eleanor Shelby Mustang fastback with Maier racing eleanor body kit. Sometimes called a Shelby GT 500E, the Eleanor is inspired from the Nicolas Cage, 2000 movie Gone in 60 seconds, where a 1967 Shelby GT-500 was modified with a body kit, a billet grille, side exhaust, and custom wheels from PS Engineering, in gray with black Shelby stripes.
(from page 18 of the 1968 Collection)
Gray 1968 Eleanor Shelby Mustang fastback with Maier racing eleanor body kit, front end view.
(from page 18 of the 1968 Collection)
Rear view of a Gray 1968 Eleanor Shelby Mustang fastback with Maier racing eleanor body kit.
(from page 18 of the 1968 Collection)
1968 Gray Eleanor Shelby Mustang fastback with Maier racing eleanor body kit and PS Engineering wheels, right front view.
(from page 18 of the 1968 Collection)
Interior view of a 1968 Eleanor Shelby Mustang fastback. Interior modifications include: Corbeau Racing Seats with 3 inch lap belts, 5 inch tachometer, and pillar gauges.
(from page 18 of the 1968 Collection)
Engine changes include a 347ci Ford Racing stroker motor with Z303 heads, 750 Holley vacuum sec carburetor, msd distributor, 6A box & wires, custom nickel headers, billet aluminum pulleys, electric fan, torqstop motor mounts, Canton 7 quart oil pan, dyno tested @ 450 bhp & 400 torque, 4 speed top loader, Mcleod scatter shield, cable actuated clutch, Centerforce disk and pressure plate, aluminum driveshaft, Currie 9' rearend with Eaton TruTrac posi and 3.25 gears. Suspension modifications include: Global West Negative Roll System with lower & upper arms, adjustable strut rods, Flaming River, manual rack and pinion steering with tilt wheel, StamBar swaybars (fully adjustable front & rear), Wilwood brakes, Wilwood proportioning valve, and all rotors cross drilled and slotted.
(from page 18 of the 1968 Collection)
This is a special Cardinal Edition 1968 Mustang. A limited number of these were built for Virginia and North Carolina areas. The Cardinal is the state bird of Virginia. They are all hardtops and came with Cardinal emblems, flip-open chromed gas cap, black interior, black side "C" stripe, wheel lip moldings, wheel covers, 200ci inline six cylinder engine, and special paint. The Cardinal Red paint is actually Candyapple Red, a standard 1968 Mustang paint.
(from page 19 of the 1968 Collection)
The special Cardinal Edition emblem is placed on the rear roof panel. It just simply has a red cardinal head on a gold diamond shape.
(from page 19 of the 1968 Collection)
There is another Cardinal Special Edition emblem on the other side of the roof pillar.
(from page 19 of the 1968 Collection)
Cardinal Red 1968 Mustang Cardinal Edition hardtop, front end view.
(from page 19 of the 1968 Collection)
Cardinal Red 1968 Mustang Cardinal Edition hardtop, right rear view.
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