I finally delivered the 1965 Mustang I promised my daughter for her 15th birthday just in time for her 20th! Now we're not talking about a 5 year concourse restoration here. We're talking about another run of the mill when I had the money, I didn't have the time and when I had time, I didn't have the money restoration. All in all, it was a 7 month trash to family heirloom project of love. At first everything was going full steam ahead. That is, until my project's design consultant, second pair of hands, tool fetcher and wife was laid off the first week of November. Dooming our project's funding to just one income. At first we had a target goal of X-mas '08 for delivery. As the holidays neared we reluctantly put off delivery till her birthday in February of '09. Basically because although the Mustang was at a driver stage it still needed more tweaking and assembly. We both knew if we gave her the car before it was more complete, we'd never get it back from her! Finally, after 3 months I get the car back! She had a flat tire...
2000 V6
A.M. CAI
Dual exhaust w/Flowmaster super 44's.
GoodYear F1 tires
17" five spoke GT rims
Painted calipers, Painted pony, flat black painted hood stripe, flat black painted spoiler.
Nice looking car . I guess thats why the call the money pits.
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1966 Mustang Vert., 200 CID I6, Autolite 1100, Candy Apple Red, black interior with black power top, C4 Auto Trans (was 3 speed manual), Scarebird 4 lug front disc brake conversion, dual MC in process.
1976 Cobra II, 302 CID, C4 auto trans. Blackjack headers, white with blue stripe and blue interior. Restoration and mod in process.
Awesome job, but like 66sprint200, hope there's some headlight doors. Great job though - hope mine turns out half as good!
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2003 V-6 - the usual bolt-ons. Gremlin taking up residence in the idler pulley. I'll finish this one when I'm done with the other one.
1965 coupe - Born - straight six standard issue
Now - 5.0 motor, T5 tranny, R&P, full length subframe connectors, draglink bars, hedman headers
Coming soon - disc brakes, electronic ignition and a whole host of other stuff I forgot to mention. The list goes on and on. Basically, it's my new toy
Easy everyone...I assure you there are headlight doors. My principle focus was turning the car over by her birthday. In doing so I had to leave easy fixes left undone IE headlight doors and steering wheel replacement, etc.... As it is, I'm going to have the HD repainted as I'm not happy with the end result. I'm also having the trunk lid redone because the stripes are off center of the lock and this creates an optical illusion the other stripes are swayed...More work forth coming and it's not even my car!
Select, sweet looking ride! I bet your daughter is grateful whether or not you got it to her ine one year or 5!
BTW, I like the retro passenger-side air bag on the bumper!!! lol
Regards,
George
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1965 289 3 spd Rustang
2001 Dodge Cummins Dually
quote from the Greek
"I haven't had my engine on a dyno, but it's probably around 300HP at the crank or maybe a little more. I don't really know for sure, but if it was World War II, you could say that I've sunk the Japanese Fleet in my neighborhood. Remember Pearl Harbor!"
PICs of a project long over due... 
. I guess thats why the call the money pits.
