Sean Kiernan's dad Robert bought the car in 1974 from a classified ad in Road & Track for $6,000 and he and his wife used as a daily driver in New Jersey for the next few years. In 1977 Steve McQueen reached out offering to buy it back, but Robert told him “thanks, but no thanks.”
The clutch gave out in 1980 and Robert parked it in the garage with 65,000 miles on the odometer, planning to get it fixed someday. He never did. The busted Mustang then followed the family, which now included Sean and his older sister, through two moves, finally ending up near Nashville. Back then, before Internet car forums, a car like this could just disappear. And so it did.
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