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Hemmings Motor News has been around since 1954. We're proud of our heritage, but we're also more than the Hemmings full of classifieds that your father subscribed to. Aside from new editorial content every month in Hemmings, we have three monthly magazines: Hemmings Muscle Machines, Hemmings Classic Car and Hemmings Sports and Exotic Car.

While our editors traverse the country to find the best content for those magazines, we find other oddities related to the old-car hobby that we really had no place for - until now. With this blog, we're giving you a behind-the-scenes look at what we see and what we do during the course of putting out some of the finest automotive magazines you'll ever read.

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302 Cobra Jet Mustang?

Posted January 14, 2010 12:01 AM by dstrohl

A couple years back, I posted some pics of a 1968 Cobra Jet Mustang, and it's prompted a few reminiscences over the years, most recently from Patrick Popejoy. PK recalls that in his youth, he had a notchback '68, full CJ lettering, functional Shaker hood, four-speed, woodgrain interior, in green with a black vinyl roof. He wonders if it could have been a factory build.

Pat might well have had a real CJ, and after someone blew up the 428, they stuck a 302 in there and went to the trouble to get the Shaker working again. Any other theories out there? It would be weird to me if someone took a 302 car and did all that dress-up work.

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01/14/2010 11:03 PM

Likely changed over to the 302. Do you know if it's a Windsor style 302 or a stagger valve 302?

May be able to check the VIN to see what the original setup was.

Too bad if it was an original 428 car. Things like that should be kept original, but things were different back then. Most everyone swapped motors at will when necessary.

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