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I'm doing my '65 as a "Day 2 resto-mod". Or at least I've heard it referred to as such. I'm making modifications to it, that would have probably done by someone "hot-rodding" their new '65 'stang in 1965. Some of the things I'm doing are glass pack exhaust, finned aluminum Cal-Custom style valve covers, Sun tach, three gauges under the dash, four point roll bar, Hurst Comp + shifter (with white ball shifter of course), etc. Although, I haven't talked myself into chrome side pipes.
Unfortunately, I was born in '66; so I don't have first hand knowledge of some of the popular things hot-rodders used to do to their street machines. All the info I get comes from old magazines.
Does anyone out there remember some really cool (but hopefully not tacky) thing that used to be replaced, added, or modified on early 'stangs, that I may not know about?
Oh, by the way, I am looking for an old Esso promotional item for the '65. It is a pair of plastic tiger-striped boxing gloves on a string, that you would hang over your rear-view mirror. I remember as a kid, a friend had a pair of these hanging from the mirror of his '65 Mustang.
"Yes, I am a greaser. Thirty-seven years too late."
Unfortunately, I was born in '66; so I don't have first hand knowledge of some of the popular things hot-rodders used to do to their street machines. All the info I get comes from old magazines.
Does anyone out there remember some really cool (but hopefully not tacky) thing that used to be replaced, added, or modified on early 'stangs, that I may not know about?
Oh, by the way, I am looking for an old Esso promotional item for the '65. It is a pair of plastic tiger-striped boxing gloves on a string, that you would hang over your rear-view mirror. I remember as a kid, a friend had a pair of these hanging from the mirror of his '65 Mustang.
"Yes, I am a greaser. Thirty-seven years too late."