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1969 Ford Mustang Mach 1 428 Cobra Jet

We now return you to your regularly scheduled garden of seven liter delights. If you want to talk about a powerful Mustang, a machine so ridiculous that you wouldn’t be surprised to see chest hair poking out of the hood, then you want to talk about the Mach 1 428 Cobra Jet. Its Cobra Jet V8 is monstrous, but its horsepower was a bit of a mystery. It was claimed by Ford that the 428 only made 335 horsepower at 5600 rpm, but that didn’t seem right. That was only 10 horsepower more than the 390GT. In recent tests, Hot Rod decided to find out how many horses the Cobra Jet actually put out. The result? It actually kicked out 365 horsepower. That’s more like it.

As mentioned before, it’s a car that looks every inch as powerful as it is. Low slung with a long hood, squat, muscular and not to be messed with, it’s a genuine brute. Acceleration to the fabled 60 is knocked out in 5.5 seconds, and you could race your way thorough a quarter-mile drag race in just 13.39 seconds.

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