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I'm actually up in Bright, IN now. Do you have a 69/ or 70 and if you do, tell me the details about it.

Semper Fi brother, I was an air winger, spent 6 years with VMGR-352 (KC-130s) at Miramar except the three vacations to the sand box. Another add on to that story about the gear drive, while waiting on the heads, I decided to grind all the flashing off of the upper intake and accessory drive bracket and paint them aluminum. The plastic tote I had the upper intake on while drying buckled and the upper intake fell on the brand new griffin radiator smashing the top and cutting seven rows of fins. That was a horrible week. Don't ask me why I had the radiator below the intake.

Do to the loss of patience I'm going balls to the wall to try to get my car done this year. Anyone know of a decent machine shop in or around Cincinnati, and Bischoff's is out of the question, nothing against them I know they do good work but have heard from several people that their bills are always way more than expected when all is said an done. I have a 66 428 that I couldn't pass up, and am not wanting a race motor, just warmer than stock, with a lope that turns heads and wets panties.

So after two years of saving and thinking about it I called up Keisler and ordered a 5 speed. I was just planning on getting a tremec 5 speed, but they talked me into one of their rs 500 5 speeds. I was just curious if anyone has installed one, or driven one, and wanted to know what you thought.

How do you guys finish off the underside of your mustangs? It's going to be a driver, but after removing all the undercoating, I don't ever want to have to deal with that crap again.

I tried a gear drive once, and it didn't turn out too well. I had a 94 gt and while I was in boot camp for the Marine Corps and the six months of schooling I saved up as much money as I could to put a gear drive, high volume oil pump and an aluminum radiator in. I had a week of leave, and drove from North Carolina to my folks in Ohio. I had from Saturday to the following Saturday, and then had to drive out to San Diego. My dad and I took our time trying to enjoy working on it together. Started on Sunday, finished installing said parts by Wednesday evening. I cranked the car over and it wouldn't start. I cranked for a few minutes longer and nothing. My dad popped off the distributor cap and had me bump it, the rotor wasn't moving. I about puked. It was a mac gear drive and the instructions said some machining may be required. I ground down the inside of the timing cover for clearance figuring that's what they were talking about. When I tore into the motor the next morning, the timing gears had bound up and sheared the bolt that held the large gear to the cam, all the edges of all four gears had been chewed off and dropped down the front of the motor and into the oil pan. Roughly half of the valves and push rods were bent. Mind you this is Thursday and I needed to leave Saturday morning for California. I happened to have a whole new set of larger valves, springs, keepers and all. I pulled the heads and ran them to a machine shop and explained my situation. Then started off running all over Cincinnati buying push rods one and two at a time (no one had a whole set). I wound up getting the heads back Saturday morning and working all day Saturday, and into Sunday morning getting it done Sunday afternoon. I got up Monday morning and the shake down drive was the trip to Cali. The $100 gear drive wound up costing me $1,500 to fix. I still have the gear drive and like to mention putting it in another motor to watch my dad almost have a heart attack. The high volume oil pump wound up taking out my distributor and ignition module not even a year later.

It's been since May since I've been able to get on here, and even then I think I was just trying it out to make sure I remembered my password. I don't know how you older guys do it ? (I turn 30 this month). To specify, deal with the time/ money balance. You know, when you have the time, there's no money, and vice versa. I've been messing around with cars for 15 years, and I keep hoping that I'll mellow out and get that older guy chill mentality of," Someday I'll get it done." My patience is getting shorter the longer this project sits (12 years come August). The only thing that helps is beer.

Both of my doors are rotted there too, I had to make my own patch panels.

I have several sets of 390GT heads. For those of you who don't know, there are three types of exhaust manifold bolt patterns. 8 bolt, one hole on top and one on bottom of each exhaust port, most FE heads. 16 bolt for some 428s I think just the cobra jets, 4 bolt holes around each exhaust port. Then these puppies, 14 bolt 390 GT heads, 4 bolt holes around the front and rear exhaust ports, and 3 around the two center exhaust ports. Not all 390s had these heads, just the 390 GTs, the 390 GT was a special engine, the cam was used for the cobra jet that eclipsed it performance wise. I don't have the casting dates, because I never cared about concourse restorations, but if you are interested I can get them for you. Please don't request the casting dates if you have no intentions on buying them. Make offer.

It is Obama, and all his radical appointments, before the emails from East Anglia came to light with it all being a farce Obama was saying that in Copenhagen that they weren't going to do anything yet, just agree to do something eventually, after the emails were exposed Obama came out and said that they were going to do more at Copenhagen. His staff and advisers probably started freaking out that if they waited longer more people will realize that we are being lied to and try to stop any further erosion of our liberties. I have to stop looking at this thread, I get on this site to forget about all the things that piss me off. Plus I've always heard that you never talk about politics, religion, or money with friends.

Man Wade aren't you glad you didn't buy that first heap? Don't buy a car as an investment, you'll most likely never get your money out of it, but it's cheaper than a psychiatrist, and it won't divorce you and take half of everything you own.

Here are a few in my neck of the woods. http://cincinnati.craigslist.org/cto/1495020499.html <20K nice 69 351 mach http://cincinnati.craigslist.org/cto/1497943594.html <20K rough 69 428 mach http://cincinnati.craigslist.org/cto/1482148914.html <20K nice 70 351 mach http://cincinnati.craigslist.org/cto/1497326325.html <$725.00 rough 69 F/B http://indianapolis.craigslist.org/cto/1498402785.html <4,900 rough 69 s code mach http://indianapolis.craigslist.org/cto/1482907108.html <14K nice 69 mach http://indianapolis.craigslist.org/cto/1467296508.html <8K project 70 F/B w/ coupe parts car

If he is asking 14k and you shoot an offer of 7k you're just going to piss him off. You can't just jump in and buy a car. Head to all Ford swap meets, car shows and look at what is out there. Two years ago, he might have been able to get almost what he is asking, but the economy hurt the values of everything but gold. Take it from a guy who suffered several times from seeing a car and having to have it right now. You can tell him he's asking too much but such a low ball offer to him will shut down any future chance of getting that car. I doubt anyone will buy it for 14k and maybe he'll just have to go a year with everyone telling him he is crazy. If it was me, I'd give him my number and tell him if he really wants to sell it and for a realistic price to give me a call. Other people will give him more realistic offers for it, let them piss him off, if he remembers that you didn't piss him off he might call you down the road.

If Ford had one they'd be using it too.

I think 14 is too high, I would have a hard time giving over 5k for it personally. I didn't see the angle iron you were talking about. I'm not 100%, but I thought the drag pack came with the 428 and was just steeper gearing and an oil cooler. You get to meet a butt load of people who think just because it's a mustang it's worth a fortune. For 14k I'd expect to get a 351 mach with shiny paint, decent interior, and can be driven.

If you are wanting smaller displacement, how about the little 3.9 DOHC V8 that Ford uses?

I was just wanting to sell the glass itself, the tinting is in the glass, 99.9% sure it's factory glass. I removed it from the coupe myself. Make an offer I don't know it's value.

Has anyone put in a Rod & Custom mustang II front end yet? I bought one this past summer but not to that point yet, all I have been able to do is sit and grow a big rubbery one looking at all the parts. If anyone needs rust free shock towers hopefully I'll have mine cut out in about six months.

I think it needs more stickers and badges to let people know what it is.

Found this on craigslist, and he claims it's almost rust free. http://cincinnati.craigslist.org/cto/1492318545.html

Alright gentlemen, I saw a thread on here about C6s and it reminded me a few years back I bought about seven Ford rebuild kits for C6s, most are still in the Ford shrink wrap never opened, been stored in dry garages. Again I'm more interested in having the space on my shelf, and I don't have any vehicles with C6s anymore. Cost for the dealerships is $90 before they tack their profit onto them which normally is 100% markup. From what I remember the part numbers on the boxes are E8TZ as you know is an 88 truck number, but I had them cross-referenced and was told they work on all C6s. If I'm wrong correct me because I don't want to sell under bad info. Make offer.

I don't know man. I remember when I was in high school the junkyards around here in Cincinnati, not the big ones, but the same ones had some good projects in them. Cars I've seen in junkyards around southwest Ohio include a 66 mustang fastback 289 4speed car with a 9 in. A 69 charger in the same junkyard was already crushed and stacked. A 49 merc in the same junkyard, rolling shell was for sale for $100. Down the street from that junkyard was a dump and recycling center, the owner had a row of old 2 door galaxies with a 57 chevy 2 door at the end. He was asking several grand a piece for months and when no one would pay that he ran over them all with a bulldozer to spite everyone, and left them sit for a couple more months after that. There was an awesome old Ford junkyard called town and country, I have never seen so many abandoned projects there, some were repainted shells and for some reason sent to the junkyard. The county used the EPA to shut them down so a new subdivision could be built. The last few years have been devastating around here for old cars, as much as I would want to believe that guy was just BSing me, I've seen too many cars in junkyards and scrapyards that make you ask WTF? Call me stupid, but I'm one of those guys who buys projects just to keep them from being scrapped, but on the same token, karma has rewarded me with three California cars.

So I talked my mom into taking automotive upholstry classes, I took the first one with her. With going back to college it was too much for me time wise so I couldn't take the next class. Thank God, I gave her a pair of low back buckets to redo for my 65 fastback, and hung out with the class while pulling the hog rings out for her. There was a jackass in the class with her that would not leave me alone. He claims he is into Pontiacs now, but was telling me that he just scrapped a bunch of old cars last year. He claims a real 69 Z/28, a 69 GTO, and a 69 Mustang convertable. I asked him why he scrapped them, and he was acting pompus in saying he doesn't mess around with rust, it has to be rust free to be worth his time. I asked how much he was paid by the scrap yard, and he said $160 bucks a piece. Before I joined this site I never knew how many guys were into the 69 coupes and convertables. Call me a jerk, but I didn't want to be the only one with that sick feeling in my stomach from hearing about wasting old cars.

I was in your shoes a few years ago, but it was juggling a 65 falcon, and a 65 fastback while I was in the Marines. I hate not knowing how to do things, and you sound similar. After I got out I went to Wyotech to learn how to do all my own body work and paint, but now I have 24K in student loans since the VA wouldn't pay for Wyotech "due to the nature of my disabilities." I was working for a restoration shop this past summer, and learned a butt load about restorations. You get what you pay for having someone else do it, and a restoration shop might run you 100k (at $45 an hour) to restore a car, they mostly bill time and materials, they averaged 8k to paint a car with some rust requiring a few panels (lower quarters, or floor pans) to be replaced. I could have gotten a bad ass paint job for 24k but I plan on working on old Fords as a hobby the rest of my life. If you want to do it yourself, try to find someone who knows what they are doing to babysit you. It's real easy to mess up a car if you don't know what you're doing. About half the cars at the restoration shop I was working at were started by other shops, and even people who think they know what they are doing hack up cars. If you're not wanting to spend a lot of money this is the wrong hobby. What branch, and where are you stationed when you're not deployed?

I just noticed an advertisement from Ford in a banner on this site, saying the 2010 is the most customizable mustang ever? Really?! I'll take a supercharged DOHC 5.4 in grabber green with black interior, with no other options, keep the hundreds of pounds of sound deadener, expensive stereos, the dozen or so airbags. I just want the motor with a manual tranny in a green shell, and a pair of black buckets. They should be able to offer that for under 20K right?