fjpikul
GT Owner
Who cares. Parking in downtown Indy is $450 for the game and weather is great. How do you pull this stuff off Special Ed? I don't think I've seen a P-40 without the tiger mouth/teeth.
GT40 vs P-40
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steved57
GT Owner
Yes, Chris said everyone wants the shark mouth but the plain olive drab solid paint job was the most common. He is a fanatic about detail & did almost all the restoration himself. It's rare to have a pilot & restorer the same. A few guys at the hanger kept mentioning Jack Rousch as he is a car guy but not a hands on mechanic/body guy when it comes to his P-51s.
Ed
cobrajeff
GT Owner
Yeah, Jack Roush has a P-51 named "Old Crow"
"Big Jim" is the guy who has his own work area in the back of one of Roush's Detroit locations, where he rebuilds every Merlin engine that Jack can scrounge up.
Got a call from a Ford Marketing guy a few years back, they wanted a nice '65 Mustang convertible for a photo shoot with Jack's P-51 and a "40th Anniversary"
model Mustang they were going to hype in 2004, since demand for the decade-old SN95 Mustang was fading as word got around about the dynamic re-styling
of the S197 model due out in 2005.
"Jack will probably take you for a ride in his P-51" was one of the lines the marketing guy used to lure me out to Willow Run airport at 8:00 in the AM on a very
cold March morning. He neglected to mention that the photographer Ford hired thought early evening light was best, and we'd kill the whole day sitting on the
runway waiting for the "money shot" just about sunset. :eek
No P-51 ride, no copies of the Ford Press Kit that would feature the photos, nada..... Jack WAS kind of intrigued by my Redline Radials, though. "Where'd ya
get them tires?" I gave him my card, and he said "I'll have my people contact your people about where to get the Dual-band Redline Radial tires". :bored
Next time I saw Jack's early Mustang HiPos in his private collection, they were all wearing Redline Radial tires....
"Big Jim" is the guy who has his own work area in the back of one of Roush's Detroit locations, where he rebuilds every Merlin engine that Jack can scrounge up.
Got a call from a Ford Marketing guy a few years back, they wanted a nice '65 Mustang convertible for a photo shoot with Jack's P-51 and a "40th Anniversary"
model Mustang they were going to hype in 2004, since demand for the decade-old SN95 Mustang was fading as word got around about the dynamic re-styling
of the S197 model due out in 2005.
"Jack will probably take you for a ride in his P-51" was one of the lines the marketing guy used to lure me out to Willow Run airport at 8:00 in the AM on a very
cold March morning. He neglected to mention that the photographer Ford hired thought early evening light was best, and we'd kill the whole day sitting on the
runway waiting for the "money shot" just about sunset. :eek
No P-51 ride, no copies of the Ford Press Kit that would feature the photos, nada..... Jack WAS kind of intrigued by my Redline Radials, though. "Where'd ya
get them tires?" I gave him my card, and he said "I'll have my people contact your people about where to get the Dual-band Redline Radial tires". :bored
Next time I saw Jack's early Mustang HiPos in his private collection, they were all wearing Redline Radial tires....