Tigers,
I answered some questions about Carnuba wax a few day's ago, and related
how I worked for "The Pep Boys" in their Burbank/Glendale store. Well,
it also unfroze some of my memory cells about that job.
There was an alley behind the parking lot, and residential homes south
of the boulevard. The nearest lot was undeveloped, or razzed. Someone
had parked his Mustang there, and it was quite interesting. I spoke to
the neighbor, and he told me how he acquired it. It was some 10 years
old at that time.
So what's unusual about this story? Well, at this time Ford was about
15 years from the release of their Mustang, and the Shelby's, Tigers,
etc. were as far from showing their prototypes.
By now you've probably figured out the manufacturer of this vehicle was
North American Aviation. The P-51B's "Mustang" was built in Inglewood
(CA) starting May, 1943. This was a program for the Army Air Corp. USAF
was sometime latter.
http://www.acepilots.com/planes/p51_mustang.html
He let me sit in the cockpit and look over that "loooong" nose.
I ended up, in my first professional job working for the Rocketdyne
Division of NAA. A far cry from airplanes, but at the cutting edge of
space.
Sorry for over-running you with reminiscences, but the thrill came out
of that dusty vault, along with the Carnuba! And, who knows if I'll ever
visit that particular cells again.
Steve
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Steve Laifman
Editor
http://TigersUnited.com
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