Mystery Mustang

[Victor Archer]

OK Geeks have at it.....

[speeddemon]

Re: Mystery Mustang

I don't have my glasses on, so I can't see the registration number...but it is taken @ Mojave (I'd say 1970, because it looks like Super Snoopy on the ramp behind on the right side), and the canopy was developed by Mike Loening, and used in 1967 when he bought and raced Ben Hall's #2 N5428V. Only ran this canopy in '67.

[Stevo]

Re: Mystery Mustang

You can't read the N number but you can see Super Snoopy in the background

[Peashooter]

Re: Mystery Mustang

I think the n-number ends in "CF".

[speeddemon]

Re: Mystery Mustang

You can't read the N number but you can see Super Snoopy in the background

Can you NOT see the big propliner sitting under the nose of the Mustang????

[Victor Archer]

Re: Mystery Mustang

I don't have my glasses on, so I can't see the registration number...but it is taken @ Mojave (I'd say 1970, because it looks like Super Snoopy on the ramp behind on the right side), and the canopy was developed by Mike Loening, and used in 1967 when he bought and raced Ben Hall's #2 N5428V. Only ran this canopy in '67.

GEEZZZ..... Mojave 1970 is correct!

[speeddemon]

Re: Mystery Mustang

GEEZZZ..... Mojave 1970 is correct!

....as he blows the smoke from the barrel of his .45 revolver and slips it oh-so-gently into it's holster......


"Wow....you ARE the Waco Kid!"

[SpinB]

Re: Mystery Mustang

....as he blows the smoke from the barrel of his .45 revolver and slips it oh-so-gently into it's holster......


"Wow....you ARE the Waco Kid!"

I want the Chess piece back......(Knight?)

[speeddemon]

Re: Mystery Mustang

I want the Chess piece back......(Knight?)

Black....of course.

[T J Johansen]

Re: Mystery Mustang

P-51D N713DW

T J

[speeddemon]

Re: Mystery Mustang

Oh, cool. 713DW was Dick Weaver's old plane. It raced at Reno in the mid-60's in a white and blue scheme. Race 15, I think.

Ultimately, this (I believe) was the plane that Tony D'Allasandriss modified for racing with the small canopy that ended up on Precious Metal, an Allison engine with the intakes in the wing roots, and clipped wings. Never made it to a race, though, until Matt Jackson and Erin Rheinschild raced it as Mis Fit. Then I think (THINK) it was Damn Yankee??? Maybe the Jacky C.

[Victor Archer]

Re: Mystery Mustang

Oh, cool. 713DW was Dick Weaver's old plane. It raced at Reno in the mid-60's in a white and blue scheme. Race 15, I think.

Ultimately, this (I believe) was the plane that Tony D'Allasandriss modified for racing with the small canopy that ended up on Precious Metal, an Allison engine with the intakes in the wing roots, and clipped wings. Never made it to a race, though, until Matt Jackson and Erin Rheinschild raced it as Mis Fit. Then I think (THINK) it was Damn Yankee??? Maybe the Jacky C.

1957: N5414V
1963: N713DW, racer #6, #15
1970: N22DC, N51T, N51TZ,
1977: rebuilt N5415V
1990: "Miss Fit" FF-553
1993: restored in Rialto CA, "the Jacky C", N38JC
1997: N51VF, Charles Osborne

Maxium Geek Points for you today!

[RandyGoss75]

Re: Mystery Mustang

Loening had that canopy on another Mustang that he bellied in....Mike Dupont had helped build it up.....hmmmmmm...it was "Chance I"....errrrrrrrr

I have the info at home.....I'm slipping........arrrrrgh......CRS......

[speeddemon]

Re: Mystery Mustang

Loening had that canopy on another Mustang that he bellied in....Mike Dupont had helped build it up.....hmmmmmm...it was "Chance I"....errrrrrrrr

I have the info at home.....I'm slipping........arrrrrgh......CRS......

Uh huh....and Mike DuPont was a Biplane racer at the time...who happened to be Loening's brother-in-law. Loening was married to the former Elaine DuPont....and Elaine Loening raced a Myers 200 in the Womens Stock class in the late 60's.

Talk about a family affair.

[mayday51]

Re: Mystery Mustang

I want the Chess piece back......(Knight?)

...Mongo like candy......