PP Mguire
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I don't know how quickly this will go at first due to a very small budget, a kid on the way, and many financial hills we have to get over but I decided to make a thread after all.
This particular car has been in the family over half of my life time. My mom paid 500 dollars for it originally from some junker who rigged almost the whole car just to make the engine run. The passenger door was from a 67, the seats from a 66, the engine (as we found out many years later) from a 73 Maverick, and I doubt the suspension is even original considering I think this was originally (by VIN) a 289 car. When we got it, the car was painted black, smashed in the front crunching up the inner engine cradle, grill, and hood. Chips of paint where revealing miscolored parts and it was basically turning into a rainbow of paint after a few years of driving it. (I don't have pictures of the car when we first got it, which I wish we did.) It was a daily driver for a few years and then in either 2001 or 2002 somebody in our area decided to sabotage my dads work and stick trani fluid in the water and water in the oil. He did a complete rebuild of the engine and head and it just sat there because they had purchased new vehicles. For some reason my mom refused to drive it and so as with all old cars the master cylinder crapped out, wheel cylinders crapped out, and the paint got worse.
5 years ago (about 2006) my dad and I decided to redo the car so my mom would have something to drive to her new job. It went from looking like this
To this
We did all the amateur painting ourselves in an enclosed canopy garage type thing. It sucked, but it got the job done. Unfortunately even after making it go, making it look good, and even legalizing it the car still sat there. After doing all of this my dad was ****ed and gave up on the car. Last year I offered my mom my running, inspected, perfectly fine Cavalier for this Mustang but she refused. Finally earlier this month she gives me the car after I decided to work on it to give her a vehicle (sort of repeating pattern here).
Currently it sits and looks like this after 5 years of dust and rock ruining our paint job.
It has a straight 6 that I am slightly modifying to go a bit faster and be a little more reliable in the intake department. I am borrowing my dads Motorcraft 2bbl off his 67 Mustang until I can afford a Holley Street 350cfm 2bbl carb.
The rear end needs some new shackles, new shocks, and I am installing the new LED tail lights.
The front end is getting a new suspension treatment as well as disc power assisted brakes.
I am replacing the internal lights with LED's and the dash lights as well.
In June I will have a friend down and we will be doing alot more work on the car. If our jobs stay current and steady then I will be doing a 302 swap with a 4bbl intake and 2.5" dual exhaust. The rear end will become 9" 5 lug, with an IRS system with adjustable height to get rid of the shackles. The front end will have a TCP power steering setup to compliment the 5 lug disk brake swap along with other TCP parts (upper/lower control arms, spindles, struts, ect). If we wind up not having steady jobs then I will keep the 6 in it.
Eventually I want the car to look like this except with white stripes and the front end a little higher.
Also, the car in the pic is a 67 and I have a 68 so the quarter panel effect wont be there.
I've been changing my mind alot lately with the car but so far these basic options have stuck around. Anytime I do something notable with the car I'll take pics and post on the log.
This particular car has been in the family over half of my life time. My mom paid 500 dollars for it originally from some junker who rigged almost the whole car just to make the engine run. The passenger door was from a 67, the seats from a 66, the engine (as we found out many years later) from a 73 Maverick, and I doubt the suspension is even original considering I think this was originally (by VIN) a 289 car. When we got it, the car was painted black, smashed in the front crunching up the inner engine cradle, grill, and hood. Chips of paint where revealing miscolored parts and it was basically turning into a rainbow of paint after a few years of driving it. (I don't have pictures of the car when we first got it, which I wish we did.) It was a daily driver for a few years and then in either 2001 or 2002 somebody in our area decided to sabotage my dads work and stick trani fluid in the water and water in the oil. He did a complete rebuild of the engine and head and it just sat there because they had purchased new vehicles. For some reason my mom refused to drive it and so as with all old cars the master cylinder crapped out, wheel cylinders crapped out, and the paint got worse.
5 years ago (about 2006) my dad and I decided to redo the car so my mom would have something to drive to her new job. It went from looking like this
To this
We did all the amateur painting ourselves in an enclosed canopy garage type thing. It sucked, but it got the job done. Unfortunately even after making it go, making it look good, and even legalizing it the car still sat there. After doing all of this my dad was ****ed and gave up on the car. Last year I offered my mom my running, inspected, perfectly fine Cavalier for this Mustang but she refused. Finally earlier this month she gives me the car after I decided to work on it to give her a vehicle (sort of repeating pattern here).
Currently it sits and looks like this after 5 years of dust and rock ruining our paint job.
It has a straight 6 that I am slightly modifying to go a bit faster and be a little more reliable in the intake department. I am borrowing my dads Motorcraft 2bbl off his 67 Mustang until I can afford a Holley Street 350cfm 2bbl carb.
The rear end needs some new shackles, new shocks, and I am installing the new LED tail lights.
The front end is getting a new suspension treatment as well as disc power assisted brakes.
I am replacing the internal lights with LED's and the dash lights as well.
In June I will have a friend down and we will be doing alot more work on the car. If our jobs stay current and steady then I will be doing a 302 swap with a 4bbl intake and 2.5" dual exhaust. The rear end will become 9" 5 lug, with an IRS system with adjustable height to get rid of the shackles. The front end will have a TCP power steering setup to compliment the 5 lug disk brake swap along with other TCP parts (upper/lower control arms, spindles, struts, ect). If we wind up not having steady jobs then I will keep the 6 in it.
Eventually I want the car to look like this except with white stripes and the front end a little higher.
Also, the car in the pic is a 67 and I have a 68 so the quarter panel effect wont be there.
I've been changing my mind alot lately with the car but so far these basic options have stuck around. Anytime I do something notable with the car I'll take pics and post on the log.
