Newest Mustang restore 66

[Hector]

Right there with you on the 64-66 coupe... that's the dream.

Yeah...classic lines...they are sexy-looking little cars.

I'd go for a convertible if I didn't have a Friar Tuck bald dome in the back...




Nah...I love the 64-66 coupes...even better than the fastback...but like I said...the fastback really shines in the 67-68 models.

[Hector]

Don't make fun of Pintos though...this was being auctioned at Mecum's auto auctions...it hit $210,000...but reserved price had not been met yet...

[Captain]

Nice work Zemo!

Great looking car (and thats high praise from a MOPAR or NO CAR! guy!)

I was wondering if you, or anyone you might know, has ever tried working with the reproduction Mustang bodies you can get now?

the girlfriend wants a vintage Mustang with all the modern amenities....I'm thinking it might be cheaper to get a scrapper and retro fit one of these repro bodies. Problem is I know a guy who ordered one of the Camaro ones, and he spent more time trying to align the chassis, than he would have restroing an original one. Thing was crooked as a Gotham city gangster!

[Captain]

I almost feel like painting mine in that color...

But I must stick to either Eleanor of Candy Apple...

Heh...You should paint each side of the car a different color Hector. Front, back, and each side. then when you decide you dont like the one color, you just have to approach the car from the side with the color you like...

Or go all Mark Donahue and paint it in stripes...

[Fuzzysnail]

Wow...you got both a 68 fastback and an 08???

I bought the 08 on Ebay...Its a salvage vehicle, that I did the restoration on. Saved a ton, and made it affordable for me. probably paid 8500 total when it was complete.

THe 68 I bought in 89 right out of high school, paid 1,000. for it from my friends parents. Spent 20 years bringing that one back....

[Hector]

Friggin' GORGEOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Hector]

Heh...You should paint each side of the car a different color Hector. Front, back, and each side. then when you decide you dont like the one color, you just have to approach the car from the side with the color you like...

Or go all Mark Donahue and paint it in stripes...

[SlipperyLilSuckers]

I bought the 08 on Ebay...Its a salvage vehicle, that I did the restoration on. Saved a ton, and made it affordable for me. probably paid 8500 total when it was complete.

THe 68 I bought in 89 right out of high school, paid 1,000. for it from my friends parents. Spent 20 years bringing that one back....

http://megomuseum.com/mmgallery/file.../mustsmall.jpg

Very beautiful.

[SlipperyLilSuckers]

Or mehbe you could go with that colour changing paint...

[MIB41]

That's just freakin' awesome. Zemo, it must feel incredible to possess the GIFT for restoration. I do have some questions about that craft though - How much do you typically have to invest in a restoration, like the one pictured in this thread? And is there ever a scenario where you would avoid such a restoration?

[Zemo]

That's just freakin' awesome. Zemo, it must feel incredible to possess the GIFT for restoration. I do have some questions about that craft though - How much do you typically have to invest in a restoration, like the one pictured in this thread? And is there ever a scenario where you would avoid such a restoration?

Thanks man, i put more in to this one than I was going to. On these coupes it ranges from 5k to 10k. This one came out to like 8k. The reason it varies is on how good the chassis is to begin with, the better the body the nicer i'll make it.

The body would have be toast. Iv'e bought two bodies before to make a good one.

The best advise I can give someone wanting to do some restore, is to buy decent one to begin with, but that needs some restoration.

[Brad]

The best advise I can give someone wanting to do some restore, is to buy decent one to begin with, but that needs some restoration.

AMEN! Even if you do the work yourself it still sucks doing a ton of bodywork and it's messy! Here in the 'rust belt" it is not uncommon for the body and paint to run $10-15K on a rust bucket. Now that is at a top notch restoration shop and when they are done it is arrow straight and like glass but it is by far the most expensive part of the resto.


She turned out real nice Zemo. Love the color too.

[Brue]

i posted in wrong thread