paperwork
Yes I have a deluxe Marti report, and letters from him stating the total of 10 and another on my 1 of 10. Which he would not give me for awhile until verification through Ford as he had not heard of sedan 4spds as well, great guy and good work.
As well as the original sales invoice, original tax receipt for state and tags and x2 buildsheets, warranty book with his logged "overheating" issues, engine tag, rear tag and VIN is still in place.
Door tag doesn't show much strange except for an interior deviation code, probably for the 4spd and color change.
As Lee Holman had told me these would have already probably been in the process of being built as something else like base 390-429 cars and then picked off the line and built and converted. He had said more than once he was with his father and done just that, as they walked down the line his father would point to 10 different cars and they would be pulled out of the line, put on trucks and shipped to their facility for being built and used for different testing. Most notably the annual fuel test to show which cars were most economical.
The fuel test cars would have the original tags on them and most of the original paperwork and were sold afterward, however they were built with some special H&M parts to make the cars win every time. He had laughed when he told me this and said "how do you think Ford won every time".
So there are H&M cars sold without knowing they were the same cars shown in Popular Mechanics mag and highly converted. And no paperwork as he told me Ford told their company to get rid of it back in the 80's.
The 4spd is the proof of the special conversion as it is not a simple job and includes a change of firewalls parts and then custom built trans, shifter floor adaption and driveshaft among other things. This was not a normal thing to have done on the sedans.
Another interesting note is other than the side marker lights that say 429 in them, the car has no emblems, no F O R D, no Galaxie, nothing.
All the extra work still begs the question as to why, as Ford would have had invested extra time and cost and engineering?