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Any of you guys into classic cars?
My dad turns 70 on Monday, so my sister and I bought him a 1966 Mustang Convertible. It's supposed to be delivered Saturday. With the fall coming on, I am so looking forward to taking some day trips with him in it. He has no idea we got it, and hasn't really even mentioned wanting one...so it's a bit of a gamble, but I think he'll love it.
My dad turns 70 on Monday, so my sister and I bought him a 1966 Mustang Convertible. It's supposed to be delivered Saturday. With the fall coming on, I am so looking forward to taking some day trips with him in it. He has no idea we got it, and hasn't really even mentioned wanting one...so it's a bit of a gamble, but I think he'll love it.
We didn't want to go with the typical 'red'...so we found this one.
The Shop
I always wanted to get my dad a Fury for a retirement gift ,it was his first car . I have a feeling the timing now is going to be bad between the new baby coming and when he retires .
This car's got a lot of pickup... It's got cop tires, cop suspension, cop shocks. It was a model made before catalytic converters so it'll run good on regular gas...
My friend works here, in Vegas, and says you can build a complete (brand new) vintage mustang from parts in his warehouse. If you need parts, check it out. They also manufacture parts for Shelby.
And it's his 70th birthday. He's done so much for us, it was an easy decision. I can envision keeping it after he's gone and passing it down to my son.
Are you a fan of white? My buddy and I spent many nights on this one. The original owner was rick Martin from the buffalo sabres and really uglied the thing up,it was flat black with button tuck interior ,it had about 30 toggle switches all over the inside of the car. The engine isn't numbers matching but it is a 455 with a Muncie 4 speed.
This is what I have at home, if I can ever get around to finishing it. A little tough, when that's 2000 miles away. Someday. 500 horse, 440 stick car. Oooo RAH.
I love the old classics but in my line of work, the last thing I want to do is go home and work on another car...lol. I have quite a few customers that I help out with little things on the classics from time to time but it is extremely difficult to try to do any restoration work next to a fast pace collision repair. Insurance companies are not time friendly these days and my small crew is always crunched for time.
I bought the wife a convertible when she turned 40, told her she got to buy me a Ferrari when I turned 50. Well, that just happened, the 50 not the Ferrari. Just don't think I want a troublesome and needy Italian at the moment. What I have been extremely giddy for is a nice 69 Camaro Pro-Touring style. Been looking at a few but damn they get expensive with all the modern drivetrain and suspension upgrades. But, if this fugger was Hugger Orange instead of red I would be on a plane today...
Pit Row
I collected 68- 71 Lincoln mk3 to get the 460s out of ,they were high compression with 425 hp easy. ,put one in the tbird one in a 78 f100, The truck rips.
Anything after 72 is open chamber low compression with air pumps and converter to burn the unburnt fuel from the lower compression, it was a way to lower hp with the same engine design.
Have lots of engines from that 65 to 70 era,
351 Clevelands, boss 302 with a classic Roush 2 4 barrel intake from his dragracing days.
A 65 mustang that i street raced in high school,has a 289 ho with the ford tri power intake. It is rusted out heap now. Used a dog chain to latch the door handles together because the body would triwst so bad on lauch the doors would pop open sometimes.
All my stuff is ford,
Bunch of 9 inch traction locks, c4 and c6 trannys, top loaders, 5 bolt bellhousings.
I'm the white fred sanford of my neighborhood.
My dad is actively looking for a 64 or 67 GTO (only those years and original motors) if anyone knows of any!
My favorites are the later muscle cars, 70 Challenger TA
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