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Members of the Mustang 428 Cobra Jet Registry met at the 2013 Carlisle All Ford Nationals in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. The event ran from June 6 - June 9, 2013. We usually get rained on at least once, and this year was no exception. Member donations covered the cost of a club tent (thanks!). This picture was taken on Saturday June 8th.
I just completed the process of moving this web site to a new server. I think I have all of the issues worked out, but there's a chance I missed something. Please contact me if you run into any issues while browsing.
The registry statistics page has been updated to reflect statistics of registered vehicles as of February 3, 2013. We now have 2,842 cars registered, which represents a little more than 15% of total production.
2013 registry calendars are now available for $16.99 each! They can be ordered directly from CafePress:
http://www.cafepress.com/428cobrajet.593530920
Other items (shirts, mugs, hats, etc.) in the registry store can be seen here:
http://www.cafepress.com/428cobrajet
CafePress runs sales on a regular basis. Here's a list of current coupon codes:
Al Joniec took home the title of "Super Stock Eliminator" at the 1968 NHRA Winternationals while driving a new 1968 "135" 428 Cobra Jet Mustang. As shown in the March, 1968 edition of Autolite "Shop Tips", here he is pictured with the trophy.
There are a lot of bad actors in the world who crawl web sites looking to harvest email addresses for spammers, or to inject bogus links to spam and malware sites. One of the ways I try to combat that behavior is by using a service that keeps track of known miscreants and automatically prevents them from accessing this site. The IP address of every site visitor is checked against a database, and if your address is associated with some suspicious activity you will be asked to take an extra authentication step before you'll be given access to the site.
UPDATE: I've been able to install a work-around for the page width display issue. If you still have display issues please contact me (Scott) to let me know what you're seeing. It would help if you can have a picture of your screen ready to share.
One of the nice new features of the site is that it keeps a log of error messages, such as when a user tries to login and fails. I can see that some people have tried to login (in an attempt to comment on an article perhaps?) and failed. I don't yet have user accounts set up for login, so please, don't bother trying to login - you can't. In the not too distant future I hope to have things set up so that you can use the same user account on this part of the site, the forum, and the gallery, but I'm not there yet.
Have you noticed that the site looks a little (OK, a lot) different now? I've been developing the site using static HTML pages since 1999. While this kept the code simple, it made it more difficult to manage the content and to add new features to the site. In the more recent past I've been using Drupal, a modern content management system (CMS), to develop other sites and I finally decided to make the switch. I hope you like the new look and the new capabilities.