[Tigers] Pep Boys and the Mustang

[Will Seay]

Those brain cells do awaken.  I remember seeing a yellow P51 at an air show 
many years ago.  It was aptly-flown by Bob Hoover.  Gorgeous craft.  I think 
that Bob did an inside loop, completely dead stick, in that thing.

Will Seay
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Laifman" <slaifman at socal.rr.com>
To: "Tiger's Den" <tigers at autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2010 11:21 PM
Subject: [Tigers] Pep Boys and the Mustang


> 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
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