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Patient for a Mach 1

Lou Edelman clearly remembers the day he first saw his 1973 Mach 1, which is pretty impressive since that day was about 30 years ago and he didn’t see the Mustang again for more than a decade.

“I’d started a new job where I’m working now,” Edelman recalled. “I was a few minutes early, so I was sitting in the parking lot, waiting to go into the plant, and I saw this car pull into the parking lot. I had one when I was 16, similar, a ’72, and I thought, ‘That’s a neat car.’ I approached the guy and I said, ‘If you ever want to sell it, let me know. I’d be interested in it.’

“Well, I didn’t know this, but that afternoon, he was parking it in his sister’s garage, and it sat in his sister’s garage for 10 years.”

His coworker was the second owner, Edelman said, and probably had plans for the car given that every indication is that the first owner took very good care of it. That’s not hard to understand as Mustangs, from their

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