[Rusty Gillis]

The first National event I went to with my 1968 Mustang SS/FA that I got from Hubert Platt was Pomona 1970. I won class and was off .002 deck height on # 1 cylinder. This was back when you could pick which cylinder to check and I said # 1 because it was easy to get to. It was the only one that would not pass. We went back to Fl without putting it back together fixed it and went faster at the first Gatornationals. I bought a 1969 Mustang shell from Hubert that had been a Boss 302 test car. In 1971 I race at Indy, and the Grandnationals and than was going through tech at the World Finals and they said my car wasn't legal because there were no quarter panel scoops and they wanted me to install scoops before I could race. All 69 Mustangs had the scoops except the Boss 302. My division tech director finally convinced them to let me race but they said don't come to Pomona without the scoops. I installed the scoops and when I went to Pomona I was running .2 under the record and I went to Jerry Valentine and said thanks I picked up .2 because the scoops gave me more down force.