7stang3
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- Joined
- Jul 5, 2013
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- Location
- Western Ne
- My Car
- 1973 Mustang base coupe, 302, ps.c4,a/c,p/b
Hi!
I have found this site recently and felt compelled to join. I have been pleasantly surprised at the sense of camaraderie found in the forums here. If you all will indulge me, I will explain why this car means so much to me today.
I bought this car my senior year of high school (1979) from the wife of a fellow my dad knew. She(!) had ordered this car from the dealer with a severe lack of cool stuff. I mean the thing had an automatic transmission and a 140 hp 302 engine. It had g78-15 tires. It did not have any stripes or scoops or anything (but it had a vinyl top). But, what the car did have was my father's blessing. After being shot down for a 1974 Chevy Camaro when I was 16 and a 1968 Mercury Cougar (factory 390!) when I was seventeen, I was more than ready to sell the 1967 Plymouth 4 door hand me down (from mom), get a job, and buy the Mustang.
I bought the car in January, 1979 for the princely sum of $2000. The sales tax on the car was $60. My dad cosigned a bank loan for me and I went and got a job. Not 10 days after I bought the car, 1/2 of the guys in my senior class committed to skipping school for 2 days and going to Steamboat Springs skiing for a 4 day weekend. I started work the day they left.
I met my wife in junior college. While she liked me at first, she really liked my Mustang. I left her and my family and went to Laramie to college. However, I drove the 2 1/2 hours (one way) at least twice a month to visit both.
The day before we married I gave the keys to my dad and told him to sell it as I could not afford two cars. Wisely, he put the car in a shed and stored it for my future. Long story short, moved a couple of times, then we became pregnant. Complications from pregnancy left me with a premature baby (1 lb 13 oz) and a wife with kidney failure. Over the next 25 years we raised a daughter, put her through college and married her off. We went through 2 kidney transplants and two stints in intensive care for other issues. This past Christmas my wife asked what I wanted and I told her I wanted to start on the Mustang. She agreed. January, she passed away. In May, on the date of our 29th anniversary, I drug the thing out of that shed and put it in my garage. My Mother in law is storing my wife's former car for me until I finish the Mustang (she thinks it will be 9-12 months - I have not corrected her yet).
Luckily, I have a guy that works for me that moonlights restoring/hot rodding old muscle cars. We start Monday.
This project will be a catharsis for me. Thank you for allowing me to start the process.
Brian
I have found this site recently and felt compelled to join. I have been pleasantly surprised at the sense of camaraderie found in the forums here. If you all will indulge me, I will explain why this car means so much to me today.
I bought this car my senior year of high school (1979) from the wife of a fellow my dad knew. She(!) had ordered this car from the dealer with a severe lack of cool stuff. I mean the thing had an automatic transmission and a 140 hp 302 engine. It had g78-15 tires. It did not have any stripes or scoops or anything (but it had a vinyl top). But, what the car did have was my father's blessing. After being shot down for a 1974 Chevy Camaro when I was 16 and a 1968 Mercury Cougar (factory 390!) when I was seventeen, I was more than ready to sell the 1967 Plymouth 4 door hand me down (from mom), get a job, and buy the Mustang.
I bought the car in January, 1979 for the princely sum of $2000. The sales tax on the car was $60. My dad cosigned a bank loan for me and I went and got a job. Not 10 days after I bought the car, 1/2 of the guys in my senior class committed to skipping school for 2 days and going to Steamboat Springs skiing for a 4 day weekend. I started work the day they left.
I met my wife in junior college. While she liked me at first, she really liked my Mustang. I left her and my family and went to Laramie to college. However, I drove the 2 1/2 hours (one way) at least twice a month to visit both.
The day before we married I gave the keys to my dad and told him to sell it as I could not afford two cars. Wisely, he put the car in a shed and stored it for my future. Long story short, moved a couple of times, then we became pregnant. Complications from pregnancy left me with a premature baby (1 lb 13 oz) and a wife with kidney failure. Over the next 25 years we raised a daughter, put her through college and married her off. We went through 2 kidney transplants and two stints in intensive care for other issues. This past Christmas my wife asked what I wanted and I told her I wanted to start on the Mustang. She agreed. January, she passed away. In May, on the date of our 29th anniversary, I drug the thing out of that shed and put it in my garage. My Mother in law is storing my wife's former car for me until I finish the Mustang (she thinks it will be 9-12 months - I have not corrected her yet).
Luckily, I have a guy that works for me that moonlights restoring/hot rodding old muscle cars. We start Monday.
This project will be a catharsis for me. Thank you for allowing me to start the process.
Brian
