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Welcome to the forum! I will tell you from first hand experience, you cannot go wrong with Open Tracker Racing. Their products and service are incredible. They have been very good to me.

i did not use the same paint color. they do seem pretty close though. i think i started with an off the shelf color for the mustang. I know I added metallic to that. I may have darkened the color (or maybe i changed the tone of the other gray parts). the gray on the falcon is also off the shelf and not modified though. it's a solid color used for many cars like jeeps and mopars. one name for it is destroyer gray.

Josh, I just came across a guy on facebook who has a 69 Coupe that he is selling parts off of. The chrome trim around the front & rear windshilds & the chrome trim around the side windows looks good if you need any of it.(20+) Marketplace - 1969 mustang coupe glass both door glass, quarter glass rear window and windshield 200.00 | Facebook

nice, another coupe coming back to life! show us pictures! I attached a pic of mine, you can mods the coupe in different ways. from stock, old school muscle or the very popular protouring look. Ideally, I would like to have a fun street cruiser. I like manual transmissions, but would settle for an automatic. I'd love to have a 351, but would settle for a 302. I live in fayetteville Arkansas, in the ozarks, so there are a lot of hills here, torque is king.. I will probably end up running holley sniper efi and timing control, but would settle for a carb, as I am familiar with them. Id like to run on regular gas, 87 would be awesome, but any pump gas is good. any stock roller 302/351w with AOD would be best cruiser and to run 87 pump gas if your worried about the gas price. I'd like 400+ hp/torque. Enough to show the college kids that old muscle is the best muscle. I recommend going the stroker route, 302 - 331/347 or 351w 393/408/427, on my old 393 stroker, I was pushing 365 rwhp/400rwtq after a dyno tune. Great street manners and idle however I had cheap heads which caused valve guides/rockers to fail, so Im now my old 393w is getting converted to a 408w with more power and have reliable street manners to run on pump 91 gas. I would like to update the suspension for a daily driver on curvy back roads. If you have some cash to burn, start with suspension/brakes/subframe connectors; front suspension: you have tons of options to go with, but everyone here goes with open tracker or if you want to really upgrade, go with street or track coil over conversion, I have their front sport coilover kit installed in my coupe and its awesome to drive. Rear Suspension: I have 4.5 mid eye leafs, but may go with a rear coil over set up later... Transmission - I dont really want to spend big money on tko And I feel like a t5 is just too small. So, I'll probably find a toploader. I'll run close to stock height tires(25-27 inches), but make them a little fat, for a more aggressive look. I have a TKO600, its a good transmission but still notchy when shifting. The new TKX resolves this as it uses some t56 parts. T5z would be fine, but Tq capacity is 330-400hp with a good clutch and if you are not using sticky tires. if you can find a cheap top loader, go that route, otherwise TKX is what I would go with, but fyi, there is a huge backlog to get these.

Josh, welcome, I am also building a 69 Coupe. I purchased all the front suspension parts from Opentracker Racing. I did the Shelby/Arning front UCA drop, & the Boss 302 chassis mods. I have the roller bearing spring perches, adjustable strut rods, 1" lowering front coil springs & rear leaf springs. I added front power disc brakes & replaced the upper & lower control arms with their blueprinted control arms. I have a mild built 1987 5.0 engine w/aluminum heads & cam from a new Boss 302 crete motor & a 1987 T-5 5spd trans with a 9" Ford rear w/3.50 gears w/trac loc. I am in the process of re-wiring the car with a AAW wiring kit. Other parts have been purchased from NPD, CJ Pony Parts, & Virginia Mustang. As far as chrome trim try to get original Ford trim as it will fit better then the repo stuff. My wife & I just a few months ago moved from southern NJ to southern Virginia so the car is temp on hold. Here is a pic of it as it is today.

I've had my car since 1981 and the drop-off metal is all original and complete, but these valves appear to have never been installed on my Metuchen built car. Until today seeing Briain's original valve in place, I had no idea how or where these things mounted !! Looking at the NPD catalog, they show 3 options for '69: 67-70 "Good Repo" 68-70 Dearborn built "Exact & CC" 68-69 San Jose built "Exact & CC" Is it possible that these were not installed on Metuchen built cars ?? Figured pics would be good to show OE metal without the valves in place. Doug