![]() ![]() The blue engine surrounded by lime green is a visual knockout. He obliged and opened the hood to show off the pristine blue, 285-horsepower, 351 Cleveland engine. Macabobby’s Mach 1 looks better than it did when it was new. Macabobby knows Mustangs because he is a Gold Card National Judge in the Mustang Club of America. I couldn't help but notice the attention to detail on every piece of the gleaming green Mach 1. The color was applied to only 663 of the 149,678 Ford Mustangs produced in 1971. The Mach 1’s eye-searing, bright hue is known as Grabber Lime Green paint. I caught Macabobby and his 39,743-mile Mustang in the paddock area of Barber Motorsports Park on an overcast Sunday morning. Not much has changed inside Macabobby’s 1971 Mustang Mach 1 since the Vietnam war. ![]() The one-owner Mustang still wears Macabobby’s Vietnam-era dog tags on the rearview mirror. Macabobby, a member of the Mustang army since 1972, hauled the vibrant green 'Stang from his home in Youngstown, Ohio. Decades later, Macabobby and his Grabber Lime Green Mustang attended the Mustang 45th Anniversary Celebration at Barber Motorsports Park in Birmingham, Alabama. Robert Macabobby hung his dog tags on the rearview mirror of a dealer demo, 1971 Mustang Mach 1 when he was 21 years old. Visible rewards for original-owner of 1971 Mach 1. ![]()
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