Michigan Ford fans Bill & Mike McGee own a unique and very rare 1970 Mustang. It is one of the Ford of Canada Performance Clinic team cars. The team consisted of a 427 SOHC Mustang, a 429 CJ Cyclone, a 428 CJ Cougar, and this 428 Mustang, now owned by the McGees. The Marti report shows this Mustang was ordered in late September 1969 and built, sold and delivered all on the same day to "Ford Motor Company", never having a selling dealer. The car was ordered as a Drag Pack Sportsroof, not a Mach I, with a Q-code non ram-air 428 Cobra Jet, C6 Automatic, 4.30 Detroit Locker, Deluxe Interior, Factory Tach, and no other options.

From there it is believed to have been delivered to Sandy Elliot Ford in Ontario along with the other Drag Clinic cars, where the cars were stripped of the drivetrains and sent to Sheery's Custom Paint for the matching paint jobs while Barrie Poole and crew built the engines. Ford maintained ownership of the Mustang which Scott Wilson and Louie Rivait raced in SS/HA. The team won "Best Appearing Team" at the 1970 NHRA Summernationals at York US30. Half way through 1970 the automatic Mustang was converted to a Toploader 4-speed.

In January or February 1971, the team cars went up for sale in National Dragster and Wheel Spin Magazine as Ford pulled out all the funding. The cars all went their separate ways. The 428 Mustang was sold to Tim Vorik in Michigan, who ran it in Super Stock from 1971-74, mainly at Milan, US-131, and Central Michigan Dragways. In 1975, Vorick removed the drivetrain and put it in a '69 Mustang Convertible drag car. He then put the Drag Clinic car up for sale.

Bill McGee was looking for a clean 428 Mustang to replace his aging '69 428 Mach I, and he heard about this car, he wanted to quickly snap it up as someone else was looking at it to make a circle track car out of it. As soon as he saw it in the spring of '75 he remembered the car from the all the magazines and seeing at US-131 Dragway when he ran the Mach I and his '67 427 Fairlane. So, a deal was made with Vorick for the Mustang with no engine or transmission. Bill put the drivetrain from his '69 Mach I in it and has just street driven it a few days a year ever since, it now has about 3000 miles on it. The Mustang retains 99% original of it's Drag Clinic paint and the original Fenton wheels.

In 2004 Bill and Mike planned to put a new set of Hooker Race Adjustable headers on as the old ones were getting very thin, and also to replace some gaskets when and noticed some things not quite right. So the stock '69 motor was taken apart and found it to be a service block with a close date code for the car. They and took the CJ to Dave Wood in Williamston, Michigan for a good machine and assembly job and a nice solid lifter cam, pretty much what a Super Stock engine was in 1970. It now runs better than it ever has in 31 years.

In November 2005 we were treated to a spin in the Mustang for a late fall photo shoot at a beach on Lake Michigan near Holland. The 428 happily roared to life for us after Bill and Mike pumped it full of race gas. We then motored down to the big lake in the big Cobra Jet. After several dozen photos, Bill did a couple of nice burn outs for us and headed back to the shop, where he did one last burnout. While the Stang hasn't been on the strip in a long time, it's by no means a garage ornament, Bill loudly exercises this pony on the street regularly. Thanks guys!!