It seems like every day our bucket list grows a little bit longer. We’ve got a number of gearhead destinations and events that we plan to attend in the coming years, like the Woodward Dream Cruise, the Monterey Concours de Elegance, and Hot Rod Magazine’s annual Power Tour. The Power Tour has grown to immense size, and many parts makers have joined the fun with hot rods and muscle cars of their own.

Looking back though, one of our favorite cars we’ve seen head out on the cross-country Power Tour was COMP Cam’s ’69 Mustang from the 2002 running of the tour.

This Mustang had all the trimmings of today’s restomods, including the six-speed transmission, Robert Yates engine, and a mechanical street camshaft from COMP itself. The six-speed transmission helped it get upwards of 22 mpg on the highway, good for those long trips across nowhere. And yet, it still had 700 horsepower on tap for every time it pulled in to a drag strip.

What really made this car interesting though is not only did it lack a crate engine, but the car itself was saved from certain doom. COMP didn’t start out with a great, mint-condition car, but rather a rusty, half-finished project that needed a lot of love. COMP found the one they used on the tour in Washington D.C. and paid just $3,000 for it. It makes us wonder what ever happened to this tasty Mustang? Maybe it’ll make a comeback for the 2011 Power Tour.