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Boss,
....my Son is an auto restorer....GTO's and Mustangs. He just picked up '65 Mustang that had been garaged for 20 years. It had been torn completely apart for a resto, but never touched. 800 bucks. I tried to do him out of it,.....
....but no dice.
Dave.
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Well, as an update....the car has panned out pretty good. I had to replace one of the mufflers because of a welding defect that broke through the surface. The neutral switch on the shifter is acting up, and the switch on the hand brake only works when it feels like it. I put a small red "idiot" light on the dash, connected to the handbrake switch.
The horn button that came with the steering column was junk. It broke trying to install it. It was a Chevy part....no small wonder. I put one of those large horn button switches on the side of the steering colomn.... the kind you just slap when you want the horn to beep. I found out why most hot rods use that type of switch.
I had a problem with the wheel alighnment....the "string thing" didn't work. A Guy at a cruise told me how to make a homemade alignment jig, and it worked just fine. I had to do some old fashioned "spoon work" with the brakes to get them to not pull to the side.
All in all, the car is a wonderful sucess....everyone loves it, especially older people for some reason. Perhaps a lot of them drove, or rode in those old cars back in the day. Updates to follow.
Dave.
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That old '65 Mustang Fastback my son bought for $800.00 turned out to be a diamond in the rough....we sold it in two days for $8,000.00. It was an old race car....kinda rough on the body, but it had the racing engine and trans that was worth the 8 grand by themselves.
The engine and trans had been rebuilt to "as new" condition, and the car had been in a garage for 20 years..
Dave.
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We had the racing headers, two sets of heads, another tranny, all kinds of stuff that went with it. The rust free 65's Calif. types are like gold.
Dave.
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I got a nice surprise....the car made it into the Early Iron section of Street Rodder magazine....the Guy that did the write-up must have really liked the car.
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I just had the car in our hometown local car show, about 130 cars. I won the "Best Interior" trophy....I was shocked.
But I was very pleased.
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Yes they were....I believe he sold them.
Dave.
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I took the ol' Model A to the L.A. Roadster show on Fathers Day, where it held it's own out in the parking lot.
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I has the car out to the local annual car show in town in Sept. There were a lot of great cars as usual.
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