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UNEARTHING A TIME-FORGOTTEN FLEET OF RARE MUSCLE CARS

Check out this exceptional find, recently exhumed in Tucson, Arizona. This “Fab Five” belonged to Mark Spear, a gearhead with a taste for muscle cars, who passed away last April at the age of 71. His love of cars came from his father who worked at a local Ford dealership in Minneapolis, Minnesota. When Mark turned 21 in 1970, the elder Spear turned his son on to quite a bargain.

A customer had traded in a ’68 Shelby GT500 KR, a soon-to-become iconic Mustang equipped with a stout 428ci V8.

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