I first heard about my cs from my father, he is a truck driver in Northern California. I was looking for a project car and actually bought a 67 fastback already when he told me there was a California Special sitting in a ditch on someone's property up there. I had only seen pictures of a GT/CS in a book I was reading, and I figured it wasn't worth it to ask about the car, it seems now that people are always holding on to the cars that are rotting away on their land. But my dad stopped by and asked, it was an old lady that owned the car, she said it is worth 10K but she would take 4K right now! We both thought that was a little bit crazy, it didn't run and needed everything. After that the car was somehow moved to the back of the property as the city was starting to crack down on derelict cars sitting in plane view. My dad stopped by from time to time and fixed the lady's other car, a little nissan wagon. She also had 3 mid 50's Buicks that were in about the same condition as the cs. She said if we could get 1 running she might give up the mustang. Well long story short we cleaned up her property, kept her daily driver running, I drove her to AZ to help sell a different piece of real estate and then she said well, that car isn't getting any better sinking in the mud, you might as well take it home. I was really excited then, I now had 2 mustangs and both were something a little special. We rented a flat trailer and brought it home that weekend. I took out the interior first thing because it smelled so bad. I cleaned the dead mice out of the trunk next, and vacuumed all the mice droppings that were everywhere. I really like the car a lot, it wasn't until I got mine that I noticed another one in my area, a nice red one. I never see these cars around now, maybe people in San Francisco just don't drive them much. It's kind of sad I'll probably end up selling it soon, but the only constant thing about life is that it changes. Oh well maybe next time I'll get a really nice one to begin with!
