Gracie - what a ride...

by John Blackburn
(San Francisco, CA)

Tony,

Thanks for posting Gracie on my-car-picture.com. What a great site for people who love older cars. I would strongly encourage other visitors to the site to send in their pictures and stories. We have a wealth of beauties on the road and stories to go with them. Stories are what older cars are all about and this site is what older cars need to tell those stories.

Each of our cars is a living history with many stories to tell and experiences to share. Gracie is truly "my mother, the car." We have been through a lot in our years. I look foward to cruising along the highways and by-ways of America and taking pictures and writing about our adventures with Gracie. Her Madagascar Orange color is a very rare, Special Paint, color and gets thumbs up everywhere she goes.

I just picked up a 1970 all original U-Code Grabber Orange coupe, without a vinyl top - Gracie now has a cousin - Bon, James Bon (shaken, not stirred). A project car well-underway, I had Rick Mori at R Mustangs in San Francisco do the seats and carpet. He cut out a piece of foam from one of the seats with yet another original, and rather tattered, build sheet underneath it, and found the seat had a build-date stamped on it that was 40 years and 1 day to the day he was re-covering the seats. That car was built, as well, at the old San Jose, CA Ford plant that is now The Great Mall of the Bay Area.

Thank you for bringing our pictures and stories to light.