1972 sprint

[Carolina_Mountain_Mustangs]

Awesome thanks for the information I thought that was the correct sticker. Shows how much I know LOL I did get the Plenum with it although one of the previous owners had painted it! So I am in the middle of stripping the paint off it right now

That is the sticker for late 72 and all 73 4-V. People will put a 1970 decal on that says Ram Air and the radius is not right for the larger lid on 71-73. Ford saved a few pennies by not putting a decal on the lid just identifying it had ram air on the outside of the hood.

 

[Cliff717]

Now the proper colour for that air cleaner should be corporate blue correct?

 

[Cliff717]

OK so I got around to refinishing the air cleaner. Here is it after an exptensive sandblasting





And I finished off the night by painting it with two-part Apoxy

 

[Cliff717]

The car is back together and in one piece. I just have a ton of finishing touches to do. I threw the old straight hood on it for now until I can get the ram air hood completely done. My plan is to match the paint for this year and next year when I have some time or maybe even this winter to do a full repaint of the car. I have yet to instal The rear valance so that when I get the stainless duals made for it in a couple weeks I will have the mach one valance on the back for the pipe to exit

 

[Cliff717]

 

[73pony]

Sharp Car.

 

[Cliff717]

Thanks. She is going for custom dual 2.5 stainless exhaust tomorrow. The guy I have doing it has done my 63 thunderbird and my wife's 66 mustang; I trust he will do a good job on the sprint

 

[Cliff717]

I also picked up a vinyl front bumper for it; needs some repair but when I get around to it it should look better

 

[1mach1]

Cliff, that's a great looking car, buddy. I have always liked the Sprints.

Thanks for sharing the pics. They are great!

 

[Cliff717]

Thanks for the compliments guys.

So I had it appraised for the insurance last week and I am a bit supprized how low the appraisal is. Now I know it is not perfect but it is in very good condition. The appraisal was for 15k Canadian. So that's like 10.5k usd. R these things really that low? Should I look for another oppinion? I am used to working on 66 mustangs and my rust bucket 66 coupe appraised out at more than the sprint. Crazy

 

[Cliff717]

So just got the sprint back from the exhaust shop. 2.5 Ss front to back. Took her for a hour drive out to the cottage today. Ran great. I did blow out a top shock bushing. I did not think they would last too long they were pretty weather cracked when I reassembled the shocks. Oh well; small things like that are no problem for its post-makeover maiden voyage.

 

[1mach1]

Awesome. Just awesome.

 

[Cliff717]

So time for a update in the car. I have been using it as my daily driver for the last month while the weather is good. I am in the midst of installing a killer sound system in it; this is a challenge because I do not want to cut or drill any holes in the car. So I think I found a solution. I am going to put all my sound system in the rear package tray area of the car. This of course will make for a extremely mono sound but at least it will be loud! Lol. I figured at least this way there will be no mess of amplifiers and wires in the back trunk. I will have two compact 10 inch pioneer subs in the trunk and that's it. I took a piece of half-inch plywood and wrapped it with carbon fiber and set for Rockford fosgate component speaker sets in it and mounted both my Alpine amp's once I get the board wired up I will be ready to drop it in

 

[Cliff717]

Here is a neat picture I took at work a couple days ago my wife's new 2016 A 1970 and the 72 sprint all lined up

 

[73pony]

Nice pic. I'm curious how the sound system turns out.

 

[Mister 4x4]

So time for a update in the car. I have been using it as my daily driver for the last month while the weather is good. I am in the midst of installing a killer sound system in it; this is a challenge because I do not want to cut or drill any holes in the car.  So I think I found a solution. I am going to put all my sound system in the rear package tray area of the car. This of course will make for a extremely mono sound but at least it will be loud! Lol. I figured at least this way there will be no mess of amplifiers and wires in the back trunk. I will have two compact 10 inch pioneer subs in the trunk and that's it.   I took a piece of half-inch plywood and wrapped it with carbon fiber and set for Rockford fosgate component speaker sets in it  and mounted both my Alpine amp's  once I get the board wired up I will be ready to drop it in

That looks awesome!  To distribute the sound, though, you can get a new package tray insert for less than $40 and toss in the rears (or barring that, use a half-sheet of masonite with some auto parts store carpet like I did).  As well, grab a set of Q-Logic kick panels and pop in a set of 'front speakers' there.  You can always put the stock pieces back in if you want to return it to normal. ::thumb::

 

[Cliff717]

I have little 4.5 speakers in the kick panels but 4 1/2 don't do much. I was really hoping I could get 6 1/2's up there but there is just no room and less I remove the parking brake. I would have loved to have put the 6 1/2 components in the rear seat side panels but I didn't want to cut them as they are white; and I don't think you can get white side panels. Maybe I could've got a set of black reproductions painted them white and put the speakers in? But hopefully this will work well

 

[Cliff717]

I have a quick question for you guys about sail panels and headliners. The material mine are made out of our like a fabric with holes punched in it. Like a very fine jersey material. Maybe they're made of vinyl but they are perforated. I was looking at getting some new ones from CJ pony and it looks like they are just white vinyl from the pictures with no perforations; is this correct? Has anyone purchased these to know if they have holes or not. The picture on the Internet is very poor

 

[Spike Morelli]

Here is a neat picture I took at work a couple days ago my wife's new 2016 A 1970 and the 72 sprint all lined up

Amazing,,,,,,,they always call these years "the big Mustang", but just look at how low the roofline is, and what a tank the new Mustang is, in comparison.