3rd place at concours, 1st place for best Ford in show

[Wade 10]

hey guys, I just got back from a car show today and came back with 2 awards; best Ford in show and 3rd place in the concours class. I drove it there and then spent and hour cleaning little bugs and debris off of it.

 

I got dinged for several things by the concours judges, I need to get a spare tire and jack. I did not think they'd look in the trunk. Anyway, I need to find a good place to get a factory correct spare tire, jack and mounting hardware.

 

Does anyone know if the Cougars had the same spare tire set up? there is a big junkyard full of old Cougars not too far away.

 

Anyway, I was not expecting to win anything but was very pleased. There was a band playing and after the awards they dedicated their next song to the 1969 Mach 1 Mustang and then played Mustang Sally! It was great fun at the car show. I was parked next to a 427 Cobra and there was a GT40 across from me.

Edited August 23, 2010 by Wade

[70mstang 11]

Congratulations! Considering you were a driver up against concours restored cars that's pretty impressive.

[Wade 10]

I'm posting a few photos. One of them shows the judges around it, they kept coming back and looked it over 4 different times and one said "man you guys make it hard on us".

 

I have quite a few more to post but it has a 5 pic limit. The Chevelle SS was a very nice restoration and I had never seen a Plymouth Fury like that.

 

Now I just need to fix a few details, priority one being the spare wheel.

[69RavenConv 286]

Awesome, that's impressive. I see lots of OEM jacks at swap meets. I would think Cougars had the same jack. I have my original jack but the "socket" had split. I found another handle at a swap meet with a badly bent arm but a perfect socket for $10 .. drove the pins out, swapped sockets with a new pin from Fastenal and it's good as new. Even jacks in good condition aren't prohibitively expensive. And they are reproduced as well.

 

I would think the correct spare would be an old school plain steel rim. For true concourse, you'd need an E70-14 bias ply tire.

[LoneWolf2U 136]

Yes the Cougar uses the same jack, handle, tire tiedown as the mustang.

[Wade 10]

I was just told that the spare was a full size spare wheel unless the car was ordered with a "Space saver" spare wheel. Mine was not ordered with that. According to the Marti Report My car was ordered with:

F70x14 Wide Oval Belted Tires

White Sidewall tires

 

Would the spare be that size too? And what is the difference in the "E" versus "F" sizes?

 

thank you

[70Mach03 12]

Full size spares were the same size as the original equipment on the car so as to be able to rotate the tires.

 

A 225/70/14 is pretty close to a F70x14 tire size.

a 205/70/14 is pretty close to a E70x14 tire size.

[69RavenConv 286]

In the old numbering system, the letter was the load range, the next 2 digits were the height-to-width ratio (78, 70, 60, 50) and the last 2 digits were the rim size in inches.

[grendi 16]

E70-14

Overall diameter: 25,7"

Cross section 8"

Tread width 6.4"

 

F70-14

Overall diameter: 26,2"

Cross section 8,3"

Tread width 6.7"

 

Source: http://cokertire.com/