I bought this car out of Florida Auto trader in 2002,had a friend go look at it for me.He gave me the green light so I pulled the trigger and had it shipped up to Wisconsin.
Upon looking the car over it was pretty clean but took me a minute to see something was wrong. In the previous resto someone replaced the quarters with coupe panels.What a mess that turned out to be.
I decided to do a body only resto on it so we could drive it. I found a donor FB and used the quarters from just below the body line up to the lead line. Then I did a Shelby type conversion on it. It turned out nice a won some awards including this one from NAPA.
I braced it up and started replacing the front aprons. The driver front was in good shape luckily so the two VIN numbers remain in tact. The firewall also had tears and extra holes in it so it just got replaced.
Once it was back inside I scrubbed it inside out with a plastic bristle brush,Dawn dish soap and distilled water.
I rinsed with distilled water then loaded up a sprayer with isopropyl alcohol and sprayed it down. I then blew it dry with a Milwaukee electric leaf blower.
While my first post on VMF, not new to restorations or builds. In addition to multiple restorations over the years, I’ve also built an FFR Cobra that took 3rd place in the FFR Nationals. But my hope is re-working this car will be much easier...
This time I wanted something fun for the...
I got out of the mustang game roughly 10-11 years ago when I moved to FL. I sold my fastback and had a motorcycle and even had an early bronco for a while. I have always been on the look out for another mustang and stumbled upon this rusty 66 coupe that had a boss 302 engine in it. Yes the...
Dynacorn 67 Fastback. I just picked it up last night from the freight company. It will have a SorT coilover front and rear suspension with their 3 link, and a 9' rear axle. It will be small block powered. The door gaps look pretty good, except up near the door handle. Both sides will need...
I have had this car for about 4 years. I had started to restore it to original. It's a plain as they come T code. Once I purchased the 66 GT, this car was put on the back burner, no, it wasn't on a burner at all. I am still working on the GT (see the thread link in my signature) but have decided...
Hi all, I've made a short introduction in new members and now I'm ready to start the documenting the update of my 65 Coupe barn find. I'm going to refer to it as "Orange Peel" because it has the Poppy Red paint code and I'm sure with my paint skills there will be some.
The plan for Orange Peel...
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