Don65Stang
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[Edit: I made this post into a build thread since the question also makes a good intro to the project -code name: Andrew's Blue Seventy-Two. This will also be good motivation to pick up the pace since the deadline isn't that far off.]
As many of you may recall, my soon to be 14 year old son and I are fixing up the Grabber blue Mach 1 for him to drive when he turns 16 in a couple of years. I have a couple of weeks until the birthday. Here are a few pics of the car:
Each birthday and Christmas I have been buying him things the car will need as motivational gifts for those occasions. So far he has a windshield, steering wheel, Mach 1 sports upholstery, carpet, and a dancing hula doll for the dash among other things.
I'm a little stuck on picking out the next gift. We are working on cleaning up the engine bay so chassis black paint is currently needed but I don't want to buy him paint as a present. He want's Mag 500 wheels but it's too soon for those. Even though we're not ready to install the interior I'm thinking about a new dash pad. He could put it across the back of his dresser in his bedroom since it's about the same length and put the hula doll on it too. I could clean up the tach and speedometer cluster I bought for his car. That would also look cool on the corner of his dresser or on top of the small TV in his room. The partially assembled seats are already in his room and are planned to be used as furniture when he's racing his Mach 1 of Forza on the playstation.
He's also getting (14) 50 round boxes of the ultra hard to find .22LR ammo. So what do you think...new dash pad? I'm open to all ideas in that price range. Hmm, dash pad for his birthday and tach cluster for Christmas.
[Edit # 2] P.S. I love my wife! She's basically letting us build a Mach 1 in his bedroom one piece at a time... or perhaps she doesn't realize the master plan yet. :whistling: I need to find some light blue room accents and/or LED light strips to shine upward on one of the walls to add to the grabber blue Mach 1 theme we've got going on up there.
And with that the light came on for a few more gift ideas. Arrharhar
As many of you may recall, my soon to be 14 year old son and I are fixing up the Grabber blue Mach 1 for him to drive when he turns 16 in a couple of years. I have a couple of weeks until the birthday. Here are a few pics of the car:
Each birthday and Christmas I have been buying him things the car will need as motivational gifts for those occasions. So far he has a windshield, steering wheel, Mach 1 sports upholstery, carpet, and a dancing hula doll for the dash among other things.
I'm a little stuck on picking out the next gift. We are working on cleaning up the engine bay so chassis black paint is currently needed but I don't want to buy him paint as a present. He want's Mag 500 wheels but it's too soon for those. Even though we're not ready to install the interior I'm thinking about a new dash pad. He could put it across the back of his dresser in his bedroom since it's about the same length and put the hula doll on it too. I could clean up the tach and speedometer cluster I bought for his car. That would also look cool on the corner of his dresser or on top of the small TV in his room. The partially assembled seats are already in his room and are planned to be used as furniture when he's racing his Mach 1 of Forza on the playstation.
He's also getting (14) 50 round boxes of the ultra hard to find .22LR ammo. So what do you think...new dash pad? I'm open to all ideas in that price range. Hmm, dash pad for his birthday and tach cluster for Christmas.
[Edit # 2] P.S. I love my wife! She's basically letting us build a Mach 1 in his bedroom one piece at a time... or perhaps she doesn't realize the master plan yet. :whistling: I need to find some light blue room accents and/or LED light strips to shine upward on one of the walls to add to the grabber blue Mach 1 theme we've got going on up there.
And with that the light came on for a few more gift ideas. Arrharhar
