ACME is back with an exclusive Ford Mustang, the Dan Gurney #2 1968 Ford Mustang that is. The replica is based on GreenLight Collectible tooling, which includes newly tooled race parts such as roll cage with headrest, racing seat with safety belts, engine air cleaner, strut tower brace, and racing exhaust. This all adds up to a solid effort from the team. Model is scheduled for March 2017 arrival. Retail is suggested at $74.97US.
About the Ford Mustang… “By the end of the 1967 race season, there was no question that the Trans-Am series had hit the excitement button of motorsports fans across the United States. Race fans had no trouble equating the cars they drove everyday with the ones being raced on the tracks across America.”
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As a fan of the glory days of TransAm racing I can’t work out which car this is supposed to represent. The lack of flares suggest a 1967 car, but Gurney only drove Bud Moore Mercury Cougars in ’67. With wider arches it might be a 1968 version, although I can’t find any reference to Gurney driving for Shelby in ’68. The colour scheme is correct for 1969, although the ‘sportsroof’ version was in use by then, and Gurney did drive the car at times that year. A real puzzle……
They recycled a mould, it should have the flared arches. Historic Trans Am suggests this car had a lot of big-name drivers in period: http://www.historictransam.com/Drivers/BillOckerlund68Mustang2.html
It was originally painted yellow, and Gurney raced it at Watkins Glen and Continental Divide, according to http://www.racingarchives.org/home/on-the-grid-2/ and http://www.shelbytransam.com/index68.htm
I can now see why I didn’t know about Gurney driving the Mustang in 1968 – he’s not among the results I have. It was not a a good year for the Mustang. I t did however prove that race teams need to be run by those who know what they are doing, rather than those who wear grey suits and only think they know……
I hope there will be more quality control on those door hinges which tend to slice in half.
This isn’t a replica, it’s a “tribute”, even says so on the Acme website. It’s just as bad as the Greenlight tributes… you can still see the mounting holes on the bumper from where the regular mold attaches, no side exhaust, no fender flares, trunk is wrong, the only thing this has in common with the actual 1:1 is the decals.