NG8264723
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- Joined
- Jul 11, 2016
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- Location
- Harvard, Ma
- My Car
- 1973 Mustang f code MACHI
Purchased in 1997 or so
So we have had this car for 20 years. We bought it when I was in medical school. At the time we were driving a 1981 Stang. I was in medical school in chicago in the late 90's. We drove from IL to GA to look at a 71 MACHI. When we arrived we found a rusty rusty stang. We decided to not buy it. We picked up the want ads and found a relatively rust free H code. We drove it unregistered uninsured the 8-900 miles back to IL with my wife right behind me so no one would see the out of date license plate! It ran well but had a crappy gas tank full of debris. It would lean out and shoot flames out the exhaust. I had to change approx 6 fuel filters to get home. It also rained teribly on the ride home and the car leaked something awful! I got soaked on the ride home! As far as the condition it unfortunately had a vinyl roof that leaked so the roof was toast. I re-skinned it way back when. What a bear that was! I bought a NOS fender for one side a nice used fender for the other side and a a replacement front bumper and a bunch of other parts over the years. NOS trim this and that I never kept track. I did pick up a factory NOS ram air bowl back in the day. It also had a complete 4-speed setup but I did not install it. A nice set of factory alum rims and centers. I did add a four barrel intake and a holley carb. It then sat from 2000 to 2016!
I made an appointment for the body shop in early 2016. The car went to the shop in the fall of 2016. The guy who is painting it has done work for me before and is an excellent body man. We decided to strip the car to bare metal and reprime with epoxy primer. I also decided to do all new glass, all new trim and replace every piece of weatherstripping. The car was basically rust free with a perfect cowl and fllors the wheel wells were meant the doors and fenders mint.. The deck lid was perfect. The factory hood was rust free but wavy. The only rust was the trunk. It had two holes near the bumper brackets. Instead of patching we decided to do a new trunk and taillight panel. When he went to assemble the car we found the front had been hit and the frame was tweaked. We decided to straighten and use new (used) bumper brackets. I found the bumper brackets here!
I made an appointment for the body shop in early 2016. The car went to the shop in the fall of 2016. The guy who is painting it has done work for me before and is an excellent body man. We decided to strip the car to bare metal and reprime with epoxy primer. I also decided to do all new glass, all new trim and replace every piece of weatherstripping. The car was basically rust free with a perfect cowl and fllors the wheel wells were meant the doors and fenders mint.. The deck lid was perfect. The factory hood was rust free but wavy. The only rust was the trunk. It had two holes near the bumper brackets. Instead of patching we decided to do a new trunk and taillight panel. When he went to assemble the car we found the front had been hit and the frame was tweaked. We decided to straighten and use new (used) bumper brackets. I found the bumper brackets here!
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