Sidthing

I always seem to cringe when I see or hear of mustangs catching the eye of the entertainment industry. How many times have you seen an old car survive a movie, or not heard of a dozen getting totaled to make a movie? I remember when gone in sixty seconds came out, my friends would ask me if I thought the movie was good. I'd explain that being an owner of an old mustang, watching a movie about a mustang getting stolen makes me nauseous, and not want to take mine out of the garage. I prefer mustangs not get much lime light. We here know they are special. Most of us have spent the time and money saving them from certain destruction, often times coming out upside down, for the love of the cars. It kills me to see mustangs become a trend for the people who view cars as accessories.

I have good used 70 coupe door glass for both sides. Make offer, and I really don't want to ship them. I'm in Cincinnati, Ohio.

I have two questions that have been nagging me for years, but always forget to ask. 1. Will coupe glass work in a fastback? I scored some 70 coupe glass and was wanting to put the bolt in, in my 69 fastback, my 69 and 70 door glass is stored at different garages and I don't like moving glass. 2. Are FMX trannys worth anything? I've heard that they are crap, and I've heard they are stout and can handle abuse. I have at least three sitting on a shelf in my garage, and have been hanging on to them in case by chance I run into a Ford guy that wants them. I hate scrapping rebuildable cores but don't want to wast precious space. On that note if anyone around Cincinnati wants to give me $50 there are at least three FMXs with your name on them.

Back in June I bought one of the top of the line (hydraulic cylinders, adjustable height) rotisseries from Greg Smith Equipment. It had the small hard rubber casters, so we purchased some inflatable tire casters from Tractor Supply ($260) u-bolts to mount them on the frame, all so we could wheel it around outside our garage in the gravel. After spending a whole day getting the casters and all hardware, (none of the hardware stores likes to carry more than a few of each fastener) we push this sucker with my mach on it two feet. POP and the rotisserie falls towards the wall. Luckily the car didn't hit anything, but one of the inflatable casters broke at the king pin, picking up all the ball bearings, we found three different sizes of bearings. Pissed that I wasted a whole day to move this thing two feet, we put on the hard rubber casters. One of them bends the base plate getting it on the trailer and had to be removed. That allowed the rotisserie to lean inboard and dent my trunk lid. We get the car over to the garage and unload it, another caster tears apart inside the rubber wheel. The outer portion of the wheel flops over and binds in the fork. Another caster has to be removed. Now out of the six casters two remain, and the outer towers lean inward not allowing me raise the car. By the way, the car was just a shell with the trunk lid installed, not extremely heavy. Be weary of discounts. There is nothing more expensive than a cheap tool.

In Ohio, you have to have the vin plate looked at with the title, and have a dmv official sign a piece of paper stating that the vin on the car and title match, and state the mileage. I had to have it done three times last year. I learned the hard way don't tell them everything. On two of the cars I had new engines and transmissions put in, so I rolled the odometers back to zero for my own ease of scheduled maintenance. I had to do some serious back peddling when I mentioned rolled odometers. It was my own stupid fault, I didn't think they'd care on 45 year old cars.

and, no he didn't transfer the title to his name, I moved back to Ohio and never transferred the title over. I didn't know what I would have to do. I was just a teenager when I bought the stuff.

Thinking about it makes me want to shake the dude that cut that car up. That damn car would be worth so much more than his coupe.

So, years ago I was working in a machine shop and a regular customer calls in wanting to get rid of a 351 cleveland, I jumped on the deal and when I showed up at his house, there is a 69/70 fastback roof cut off at the base of the A pillars all the way back including the tops of the rear quarters. I wanted to puke. I asked what happened to the mustang the roof belonged to? He said he bought a 69 390 GT for a parts car. My dad had a 69 390 GT in the seventies and told me of the rarity. My nausia turned to anger, disbelief, disgust and many other emotions (I'm a pretty cold hearted dude, except when it comes to old Fords). He told me how he needed a fire wall for a 67 coupe, and he felt bad cutting this 69 up because of how good of shape it was in. I asked him what happened to the rest of the car, since the roof and firewall were accounted for. He said he only had a few parts left, most had been sold. He did have the complete interior, which happened to be a black deluxe interior with the red stripes, console, steering wheel and column. Now I was even more upset about the fate of this GT. I bought the interior, and the blower motor heat shield. He then pulled out a manilla envelope, and here is where the ethical dilemma for me comes in. In the envelope he had the title, windshield vin plate, the door tag, both vin stampings from the dog house, and the build sheet he said he found under the back seat. The mustang being a 69 390 GT fastback, had been optioned with acapulco blue with blacked out hood, wide ratio 4 speed, and deluxe interior. He was looking at the door tag and reading all the info from Mustangs by the Numbers. He read off production numbers and said, "Huh, maybe I shouldn't have parted out that car," nonchalantly. I bought all the contents of that envelope and have been sitting on it for almost ten years. What is the general consensis on rebodying a car.

Were the tires Chinese?

I'm figuring out my game plan with my restoration, years ago I bought an original black deluxe interior in awesome shape, I want to make my car a driver and don't want to risk tearing any seats (I have several very large friends). I think it would be best if this interior wound up in a car not destined to see as much road time as mine will be getting. I'd like to do a trade with cash for repop covered seats in the black with red stripe, just to specify I'm just talking about the front buckets and rear seat that is not a fold down. email me at davidsid267@hotmail.com