>:DSo everyone knows what happened to my 1970 Mustang:
What you might not know is that, since a lot of cash had been invested, my Dad (the DickFather as he will be known in this thread) and I had actually got some insurance. Even though we cannot get to the car still for various demolition or whatever reasons the insurance company has paid out and, for once, we are very happy with the settlement. Within seconds of receiving the filthy lucre, the DickFather is on the phone; "We need a new Mustang, let's get a '69 or '70 again as we know about those and have some bits knocking around for one". A quick search on a popular internet auction site told me there was currently one '70 Mustang and two '69s. The '70 is T&T and shiny so is out of our price range and contains no spannering fun. The two '69s are both within easy driving distance. The Fastback is a total restoration project but the Coupe is complete and looks like it might be possible to do a rolling resto on.
So we bought it.
It arrived yesterday:
It's all complete (a bonus as missing parts was what was eating up cash with the last one) but hasn't run for years. It's solid underneath but a bit scabby all over on the body. I would guess that it was resprayed in the late 70s or early 80s, the wheels being part of the evidence:
Appliance or something, I don't really like them but I know some do, so they may appear on the for sale bit in the future.
Car is pretty basically equipped, drums all round, no power brakes and a bog standard 351 Windsor motor with some sort of seriously scary looking LPG conversion:
The astute will have noticed there is a hole in the boot floor, maybe caused by condensation from around the LPG valve? Whatever, that's an easy fix. There are some rust issues around the car, the door shuts are scabby as are the doors themselves, these are probably the worst bits (that I've found so far).
So first up, we have to squeeze it into the garage at the DickFathers house because we still haven't found a unit or somewhere suitable to work. It turns out that the car will fit if we remove the hideous towbar.
The DickFather always likes to spanner things in a collared shirt with cufflinks but you will note today that he has also adopted the classic tartan slipper safety footwear. With the towbar removed and thrown in the scrap pile the car fit into it's new temporary home. The door even shuts.
So, whats the plan? Find somewhere better to work on it, hopefully with enough space for hairymel, lard44 or any other itinerants that want in. Then get it running, driving and stopping. Do the important bits of welding and then maybe use it while slowly going round with the melty metal stick removing the rust. In the long term some paint, power disc brakes maybe lose the vinyl top, who knows?
Finally, thanks once again to everyone involved in the Gathering charity auction. As I got an insurance payout I donated my share to Hairymel and Lard44 and I am sure they will amuse us once they have spent it on some tatty old car junk.
Cheers!
What you might not know is that, since a lot of cash had been invested, my Dad (the DickFather as he will be known in this thread) and I had actually got some insurance. Even though we cannot get to the car still for various demolition or whatever reasons the insurance company has paid out and, for once, we are very happy with the settlement. Within seconds of receiving the filthy lucre, the DickFather is on the phone; "We need a new Mustang, let's get a '69 or '70 again as we know about those and have some bits knocking around for one". A quick search on a popular internet auction site told me there was currently one '70 Mustang and two '69s. The '70 is T&T and shiny so is out of our price range and contains no spannering fun. The two '69s are both within easy driving distance. The Fastback is a total restoration project but the Coupe is complete and looks like it might be possible to do a rolling resto on.
So we bought it.
It arrived yesterday:
It's all complete (a bonus as missing parts was what was eating up cash with the last one) but hasn't run for years. It's solid underneath but a bit scabby all over on the body. I would guess that it was resprayed in the late 70s or early 80s, the wheels being part of the evidence:
Appliance or something, I don't really like them but I know some do, so they may appear on the for sale bit in the future.
Car is pretty basically equipped, drums all round, no power brakes and a bog standard 351 Windsor motor with some sort of seriously scary looking LPG conversion:
The astute will have noticed there is a hole in the boot floor, maybe caused by condensation from around the LPG valve? Whatever, that's an easy fix. There are some rust issues around the car, the door shuts are scabby as are the doors themselves, these are probably the worst bits (that I've found so far).
So first up, we have to squeeze it into the garage at the DickFathers house because we still haven't found a unit or somewhere suitable to work. It turns out that the car will fit if we remove the hideous towbar.
The DickFather always likes to spanner things in a collared shirt with cufflinks but you will note today that he has also adopted the classic tartan slipper safety footwear. With the towbar removed and thrown in the scrap pile the car fit into it's new temporary home. The door even shuts.
So, whats the plan? Find somewhere better to work on it, hopefully with enough space for hairymel, lard44 or any other itinerants that want in. Then get it running, driving and stopping. Do the important bits of welding and then maybe use it while slowly going round with the melty metal stick removing the rust. In the long term some paint, power disc brakes maybe lose the vinyl top, who knows?
Finally, thanks once again to everyone involved in the Gathering charity auction. As I got an insurance payout I donated my share to Hairymel and Lard44 and I am sure they will amuse us once they have spent it on some tatty old car junk.
Cheers!
Rather hopefully I thought I might be able to get the car running if I rebuilt the carb so I took the whole lot back to my flat with a view to combining the two. Upon opening the box it turned out the rebuild kit was for a later model carb, curse word........ Then I looked at the carb itself, first thing I noticed was that the LPG conversion involved drilling holes straight through the venturi which had then been plugged.
