DerAlte
Well-known member
Hi to all!
My name is Jarkko and I live in Hämeenlinna, Finland with my wife and daughter. Since childhood I've dreamed about owning a Mustang and I finally got it last year. I bought 1972 Hardtop, a running project car at decent condition. Originally it had 250cui V6 engine on it but someone swap it to 429cui V8 with C6 gearbox. No complaint there
Buying a project car was a big challenge for me as I have never really build or fixed car, but I wanted to learn. Best learning method is to do it yourself. Youtube and forums have helped a lot as well as workshop manuals and guide books. I'll try to do everything by myself except welding and serious bodywork.
I am member of Ford Mustang Owners’ Club of Finland we have over 4000 members and we are very active. This forum I found when searching info about 72 mustangs, because in here early Mustangs are from years 64 1/2 - 69, I was glad to find this forum
That's about the background, let us focus on the car...
So what I have done so far;
- installed 1" lower suspension and shock absorbers
- changed rear drum brakes to disc brakes
- replaced lower and upper arm
- swap rear end friction bars to disc (didn't do it myself)
- ripped off all electric wires, going to build new ones from scrap.
And a lot to do... aim is to get it on street end of June.
At the moment the car is in paintshop and hoping to get it back to garage next week.
My name is Jarkko and I live in Hämeenlinna, Finland with my wife and daughter. Since childhood I've dreamed about owning a Mustang and I finally got it last year. I bought 1972 Hardtop, a running project car at decent condition. Originally it had 250cui V6 engine on it but someone swap it to 429cui V8 with C6 gearbox. No complaint there
Buying a project car was a big challenge for me as I have never really build or fixed car, but I wanted to learn. Best learning method is to do it yourself. Youtube and forums have helped a lot as well as workshop manuals and guide books. I'll try to do everything by myself except welding and serious bodywork.
I am member of Ford Mustang Owners’ Club of Finland we have over 4000 members and we are very active. This forum I found when searching info about 72 mustangs, because in here early Mustangs are from years 64 1/2 - 69, I was glad to find this forum
That's about the background, let us focus on the car...
So what I have done so far;
- installed 1" lower suspension and shock absorbers
- changed rear drum brakes to disc brakes
- replaced lower and upper arm
- swap rear end friction bars to disc (didn't do it myself)
- ripped off all electric wires, going to build new ones from scrap.
And a lot to do... aim is to get it on street end of June.
At the moment the car is in paintshop and hoping to get it back to garage next week.
