Comments by "John D" (@johnd8892) on "American Reacts to Moffat's 1969 Trans Am Mustang at Gold Coast IN CAR VIEW! AMAZING SOUND!" video.

Actually this very special, one of seven made, Kar Kraft car was given to Alan Moffat by Ford Mo Co and then air freighted in to Australia. Moff was in tears when he heard the news. As he described on a documentary about his racing career. Ford saw a commercial advantage to Australian sales for one of these very special Kar Kraft cars to be racing in Australia rather than just being another on the grid of Trans Am for a lower rated US driver. Alan Moffat being highly regarded by Ford Australia at the time. The US driver who was originally supposed to get the car was not happy, so the story goes. But Ford were paying for these very special , but semi standard looking, cars. A very high win ratio, I recall 67%, with Moff driving this car. Even beat the Bob Jane ZL1 Camaro sometimes when that was sprung on the scene here later on. Our rules allowed a seven litre engine for a while. Later it was on display at a Ford dealer in New Zealand while racing there. The story was local NZ driver, Jim Richards, went in there, with the help of his local Ford dealer mates, in the dead of night and recorded and learnt from all the special suspension, body and engine parts that made these cars perform so much better than other Mustangs on the grid at the time. Or so Alan Moffat said in the doco.
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Although there are comments that this Surfers Paradise circuit was used for Indy cars, it was more the CART side of things when the IRL split happened. Less known in Australia was the CART vs IRL war , so they all get called Indy cars. Eventually the costs became too much so just reverted to just V8 supercars mainly with near the same income as the joint race meetings but with much less costs. Seems about twenty years ago we had the mixed meetings.
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Actually given to him by Ford Mo Co and then air freighted in to Australia. Moff was in tears when he heard the news. Ford saw a commercial advantage to Australian sales for one of these very special Kar Kraft cars racing in Australia rather than just being another on the grid on Trans Am for a lower rated US driver. The US driver who was supposed to get it was not happy, so the story goes. But Ford were paying for these very special , but semi standard looking, cars
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This one was his. Actually given to him by Ford Mo Co and then air freighted in to Australia. Moff was in tears when he heard the news. Ford saw a commercial advantage to Australian sales for one of these very special Kar Kraft cars racing in Australia rather than just being another on the grid on Trans Am for a lower rated US driver. The US driver who was supposed to get it was not happy, so the story goes. But Ford were paying for these very special , but semi standard looking, cars
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He has , and posted his reaction.
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Only knew of the Trans Am version of the 302. Slight chance it may have gone 351 very late in its racing life, but doubtful.
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First factory sedan, but in the fifties a few drivers ran Ferrari and Maserati open wheelers and sports cars. Rear engined Cooper's were built in the English factory for Australian open wheel drivers.
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On YouTube there is a vid Alan Moffat talks about his Mustang Talks about the car through the bad sound.
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@aussieausdeutschland4245 elsewhere I have seen reference to The last Kar Kraft Mustang designated for Bud Moore's Trans Am efforts, Seems Bud Moore was one of the few teams to be supplied with a Kar Kraft Mustang to use and perhaps further improve. So from the Moffat interview both are right as Moffs is a Kar Kraft supplied to him via Bud Moore. My guess redirected from Bud Moore to Moffat at Ford's direction.
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@flamingfrancis Moffat always referred to it as the Coca Cola Mustang. His major sponsor to help with the huge running costs , also BP and Goodyear. But they did not purchase it for him. I think at the time nobody could buy a Kar Kraft Mustang. As I understand they were all built only to the order of Ford Motor Company who decided if you were worthy enough to get one supplied. Don't think he had Coca Cola on his GTHO.
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Lol, he came from Canada.
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