Show Of Shows

Carlisle is also a great place if you are into displays, signs, die-cast cars, models, shirts, hats, and more depicting your favorite Fords.

How about a restored gas pump or a display case for your die-cast cars?

We also found these original programs from the Trans Am racing days. If I only had more garage and less house!

I'll take that one, that one, and that one over there, oh, and give me the red one on the end too. Sorry, just making my shopping list for the day I win the lottery. There were Boss-powered cars as far as the eye could see.

We spotted this lone classic yellow Mustang in a sea of late-model yellow Mustangs, all displayed in the same area for the Yellow Mustang Registry (YMR). The YMR is open to all years of Mustangs in any shade of yellow, original color or not. You can check them out at major events throughout the year or see their web site at www.yellowmustangregistry.com.

Art Nigro's '67 GT350 took our Celebrity Pick choice award home to New Hampshire with him. This awesome fastback sits just right on its Minilite wheels, and it doesn't hurt matters that the power comes from a Boss 302 with an ultra-rare Autolite Inline carburetor! As soon as we can get back to the northeast, we'll be meeting up with Art for a photo shoot. So if you want to see more, stay tuned.

Ford's SVT trailer was displaying all the fun hardware to make your restomod go fast, stop fast, and look good, but the real crowd pleasers were the Ford GT and the concept '07 Shelby Mustang GT 500 on display. It nearly took an act of Congress to keep people away from it long enough to get this photo.

CJ Pony Parts was ready for the Carlisle rain and had their "pallet floor" installed and ready to keep everyone's feet dry. The guys at CJs were displaying this new one-piece floor pan replacement panel, which retails for $649. We're planning an installation of one of these soon, so stay tuned.

Sometimes just walking the aisles, you come across a brand-new product just being released at the Carlisle show. We dropped by the booth for Pypes Exhaust [(800) 421-3890; www.pypesexhaust.com] where they were displaying their brand-new Tri-Y headers for '64-'70 Mustangs. They also offer shorty style headers for '65-'70 Mustang, Falcon, and Fairlane models.

If you think the show is all Mustangs, you'd be mistaken. While there's a wide selection of Mustangs from all years and models, there's also proud owners of just about every other Ford model and division on display, as evidenced by the rows of Fairlanes, Mavericks, trucks, Galaxies, Falcons, street rods, wagons, Cougars, and much more.