- Joined
- Nov 1, 2013
- Messages
- 95
- Reaction score
- 1
- Location
- Australia
- My Car
- 1972 Pantera Group IV
2003 FPV GT
This is the story so far on my Mach 1.
Late last year I joined the forum and put out the word that I was after a red/vermilion Mach 1. The idea was to drive it during a family holiday in the US in February 2014. I wanted the colour scheme as we are big James Bond fans and I wanted to be able to drive through Vegas in a red/vermilion 71. Don65stang contacted me and we discussed a car that he had been restoring and driving. I had sold a couple of cars here - a 1999 Ford Tickford TE50 and a project XC Falcon Hardtop - something like what you guys saw Max driving in the "Road Warrior".
A deal was struck and the process of getting the car ready for February began.
A big, big thank you has to be said to Don65. He was honest with me from day one and was able to be trusted with money flowing from Australia to the US. He is a true stand up guy who went a whole lot of extra miles for me.
The car was painted and Don put in a huge amount of effort helping me with the interior reconditioning. The only thing that was not completed was the decals and stripes. The hood blackouts were deleted at my request.
He and other forum members tuned and serviced the car so it would be reliable - it was to be driven from AL to CA after all.
A lot of joint research was put into finding and sorting wheels and tires. I ended up chancing my hand and buying some wheel vintique 15 x 7 and 8s. The big test was to see if trims and caps fitted.
After much searching I found some genuine 15 x 7 beauty trims and sorted through the endless Ebay deals on dog dishes. I used truck ones for the 8 inch rear wheels as the truck dog dishes are deeper than standard.
I obtained some pinstripe whitewalls and it all went together.
The trims do fit and so do the dog dishes. You do have to work the mallet to get the trims on and that is a bit scary.
It was all ready to pick up in early February and here are a few pics from AL.
The next installment will be about the drive to Las Vegas via the Southern states and Arizona.
Late last year I joined the forum and put out the word that I was after a red/vermilion Mach 1. The idea was to drive it during a family holiday in the US in February 2014. I wanted the colour scheme as we are big James Bond fans and I wanted to be able to drive through Vegas in a red/vermilion 71. Don65stang contacted me and we discussed a car that he had been restoring and driving. I had sold a couple of cars here - a 1999 Ford Tickford TE50 and a project XC Falcon Hardtop - something like what you guys saw Max driving in the "Road Warrior".
A deal was struck and the process of getting the car ready for February began.
A big, big thank you has to be said to Don65. He was honest with me from day one and was able to be trusted with money flowing from Australia to the US. He is a true stand up guy who went a whole lot of extra miles for me.
The car was painted and Don put in a huge amount of effort helping me with the interior reconditioning. The only thing that was not completed was the decals and stripes. The hood blackouts were deleted at my request.
He and other forum members tuned and serviced the car so it would be reliable - it was to be driven from AL to CA after all.
A lot of joint research was put into finding and sorting wheels and tires. I ended up chancing my hand and buying some wheel vintique 15 x 7 and 8s. The big test was to see if trims and caps fitted.
After much searching I found some genuine 15 x 7 beauty trims and sorted through the endless Ebay deals on dog dishes. I used truck ones for the 8 inch rear wheels as the truck dog dishes are deeper than standard.
I obtained some pinstripe whitewalls and it all went together.
The trims do fit and so do the dog dishes. You do have to work the mallet to get the trims on and that is a bit scary.
It was all ready to pick up in early February and here are a few pics from AL.
The next installment will be about the drive to Las Vegas via the Southern states and Arizona.
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