Bob Perkins Collection: We Visit The Greatest Assemblage Of Low Milage Classic Mustangs In The World


Bob Perkins Collection: We Visit The Greatest Assemblage Of Low Milage Classic Mustangs In The World

(Words and photos by Bob Chiluk) – So you think you hit the Holy Grail when you find a fifty year old car with ten thousand miles or less on the clock. So what do you call it when you have a whole stable of cars, namely Mustangs with less than a hundred original miles rolled on the odometer? I don’t know what you call either, but standing besides these real time capsules of the blue oval put you in awe.

Meet Bob Perkins.

Those that are Mustang fans immediately recognize Bob as the premier authority on all things Mustang. Author of many magazine tech articles and authenticity judge.  If you want know the correct index on a 65 Mustang radiator hose or the correct color for a Boss 429 horn wire Bob will know!

Ultra low mile Mustangs abound in the Perkins collection. Eleven thousand mile convertible, got it. Thirty three thousand mile cream puff Mustang owned by a priest for years, yep its here too. Pictures dont do justice to standing next to fifty year old cars that are as they rolled out of the Dearborn assembly plant. The grabber orange 1970 Boss 302 looks like a concourse restoration except it is a fifteen hundred mile original! Who buys a 69 Mach one and doesn’t drive it? A dealer put away one new car away for a number of years. Over time Bob was able to acquire some low milers for his collection. Besides the 52 mile (yes….fifty two!)  1969 Mach One, the stable has a 56 mile 1966 Mustang hardtop, a 800 mile 1969 Ford Fairlane Cobra, and a 1973 convertible with two point eight (YES TWO POINT EIGHT) non dealer prepped miles!!!!!

Along with Bob’s personal collection, the property includes a full service and restoration facility where they do all work in house.If there ever is a need for a hard to find part for one of Perkins customer restorations, chances he has it in his hard to find stock pile. Be it a NOS steering wheel,a new factory tri power intake or a NOS Boss 429 motor, they are here. Bob is busy getting cars ready for the upcoming MCACN show in Chicago if you want to see some time capsules in person. The Bob Perkins Collection is incredible.

Take a photo tour of what could be the greatest Mustang collection in the country –


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