Presidential Goose

Different AC vents

Interior door handles have no bezels

Engine Portal butchered

That's what I saw on my phone anyway...  What else am I missing aside from AC condenser, carb & intake

MH

Wasn’t that car painted orange about 3-5 years ago?

I thought that a guy refurbishing it was here on this board.

Looked like he was doing a very thorough job, IIRC (which I may not be)!

Rocky

Discussed here?

https://pantera.infopop.cc/top...88#24697472623261688

Looks like he bought TWO of them...  !!!  The orange one is 8MA*882 purchased 17, April 1969 and the blue one is 8MA*886 purchased 9, May 1969.

The differences I've spotted are:

886 has odd double turn signals on front that 882 does not have

886 has VERY old window sticker behind driver that 882 does not have (882's pictures are older)

886 has a light next to the ignition key that 882 does not have

886 has different (odd) AC vents, 882 has typical vents

AC condensers are different

886 has no armrests, 882 they are typical

886 has the combined window switches, 882 has the separate switches

886 has a different double labeled MPH&KPH speedo that 882 does not have

and of course the paperwork differs...

Wow...

MH

Gotta love the Mickey Thompson valve covers.  I guess the Pres loved that look!

I was hoping the estimate was in Pesos. I would have been all over it.

so darn interesting...my guess, a lot of things were 'lost' during the hot rodding and restoration (for example, the Speedo is probably from a Longchamp...the clock and ammeter from wherever...and those wheels, the uncanny valley...).  But most interesting to me is that these were genuinely attributed as 289 Hi-Po (305 HP...). The '305 hp' quote is oft repeated...

(wow, and adjacent motor numbers, at that...)

OMG, check that out...something I wouldn't have believed if Denis hadn't told me that it really existed, can you spot it? Hint: related to the rotated carb...

Alternator bracket?  Extra pulley?

Far right hand lower corner...around the heat wrapping--there it is, the heat riser for the choke !  Years ago when I swore that the carb was 'rotated' (180' from the way Ford installed it...) and the convincing proof was that the heat riser for the choke was on the left header---but Denis insisted that in fact, he'd seen the riser on the right header....

...and of course, I still didn't believe him...but a few weeks ago he sent me a pic. And now in this car, maybe a clue that these were in fact used for the fabled 289 Hi-po...

   And lesson learned--never doubt Denis

Summbitch...  I totally missed that.  When I switched to the big bore headers I had one made so I could keep the original headers intact

MH