This is David again,
I agree with some of them you should just get another body. I think if you ship the body without the drive train it is viewed by customs as parts. I know some of the guys over there will take a Harley apart and ship the engine to one port and the frame to another to get past the extreme duties on a complete Harley.
It looks like a coupe from what I see in the pictures and I have seen pretty much rust free ones for only a couple thousand dollars.
This link is to a 72 coupe on craigslist for $3,200 and is pretty much rust free and 30,000 miles. I was a 6 cylinder car buy you have the stuff to make back V-8 there. It has been on for longer than the 18 days is shows I think was a repost. I turned down running V-8 coupe with the NASA hood for $2,000 in December also on craigslist.
http://chattanooga.craigslist.org/cto/4875895202.html
What is the cost for a container now maybe $1,500.00 or less? I have not shipped anything to there but have shipped from Africa to U.S. when doing tooling in South Africa. The car is in North Georgia and could go to Charleston or Savannah to go on boat. Small container would hold it and could carry some spares also. I took the owner or the Maersk shipping in Port Elisabeth hunting in 2011 but have lost his contact info.
It would make life so much easier and you would have a straight car. When you have to put floors and cowls in and you don't have a welding jig to hold everything in right place nothing fits. Doors, trunk hood. I would think long and hard about this one. I attached a copy of the Ford underbody dimensions for the Mustang. Here in the U.S. you can go to a frame shop and they verify these dimensions with a laser.
You need a copy of the Ford Shop Manuals which you can buy on DVD from the Mustang parts suppliers. It will give you illustrations of everything. The Ford dealer there might even have the old printed versions. If these are not to specification you will have noting fitting correctly.
The guy that did the welding before was crazy for sure.
I hunt at Rangers Ranch maybe 18 kilometers outside Uitenhage. I love going to Addo Elephant park got charged by both Rhino and Elephant there had to out run them in vehicle.
David