Over the “off season”, I agreed to do the graphics for a car show sign for Marshall. His yellow feature car is pictured in front of a jet in the post I wrote a few months back. Way back a long, long time ago I did my own sign and I have also done one more for Mike a few years ago. I redid mine for last years Carlisle event due to a typo.

I think my graphics skills have evolved since those first attempts. Here is end result of what I produced for this one.

Marshall and I went back and forth for several iterations until the details were just right. Stripes were removed from the pavement, the antenna was left intact, windows were tweaked and so on. It was nice to work with Marshall as he is just as detail oriented as I am.

I sent Marshall a file and he had the finishing done locally. Here is what he told me about it:

As you can see I went with an aluminum frame with a marble or speckled looking mat with black and silver. I felt this looked nice with the print. The print was printed at Staples for $24. They laminated the print and put it on black foam board for me to the size of the frame. I also used an anti-glare glass so folks wouldn’t be blinded from the sun when walking up to read it. You can also see that I used the smaller file as a cover for my book with the car info/story and other memorabilia that I have found pertaining to Feature Cars.

Marshall received compliments on his sign and even placed first in the class he entered (“Original Mustang 1974-1998”.)

The large number of triple white feature cars present at the 1993 Ford Motorsport Nationals only recently came to my attention via the comments on a recent post. Ken (cobra2top) was kind enough to capture some of the images from his VHS recording of the event.

Ken shared:

They had approx. 50+ triple whites there. It is pretty amazing seeing a long line of them. At the end of the show they all drove down the drag strip. I remember they put a sticker over the 5.0 badges with the FMSN logo on all of the cars.

I suspect that many of these cars still are wearing their decals. One appeared on ebay in June 2006.

Whenever I see cars on ebay claiming to be “such and such” I always get suspicious. And, that is the main purpose of this post. Most times there is no documentation proving the claims. Heck, we even have trouble producing official documention that our cars are special for being feature cars. Now we know that the presence of this decal does mean that the car was part of something special.

If you have any information on these cars or this event, please share! I will pass along any information I gather as I continue to look into this.

Ryan (Rare_92) scanned the Vitamin See article from the November 1992 issue of Mustang & Fords. I have updated my ’92 article page to include it. I previously just had a really bad picture of the article that I grabbed off of ebay. This is one issue I don’t own yet so I really appreciate Ryan’s effort to get this to me.

I also did some slight updates to the index of articles to include the magazine covers for the issues. Even though the covers don’t include feature cars, I thought they were valuable because if you are looking for these issues on ebay these might be helpful to you. I know they help me. Sellers don’t always include the issue contents that allow you to confirm you are looking at the right issue but they almost always include the cover.