Please allow me to introduce myself. I am Kevin and I live in Richardson, Texas and am back to the world of Mustangs after a 20 year absence. I make my living practicing law, but I am also a Swiss trained watchmaker with a “master� certification. Someday, I plan to retire from practicing law and restore antique Swiss and American watches full time. Before I was married, I also worked as a standup comic and a professional musician. At one time I owned a 25% interest in a strip club. All of that is well behind me now.
When I was 15, my father and I purchased 2 mustang coupes, one 1967 and one 1968. We put them together into one “decent� frankencoupe. We did everything from bumper to bumper. I learned a lot, but much of it was bad habits. I sincerely hope one of you did not end up with this car, as it was a strange collection of parts held together with Bondo and bailing wire. There was also a half bag of skunky weed in a secret compartment in the console that I could not get out before my parents took the car away, but that is a different story. They took it away in 1985 when they came to my college graduation in my gift, a 1985 20th anniversary GT. I drove this car until it was stolen and never recovered in 1990.
In December of this year, I bought a “mostly� restored 1967 convertible. The well meaning prior owner “WMPO� was more of a street rod guy than a mustang guy. The sheet metal and paint are nice and the car is now rust free. It is candy apple red (the original color per the Marti report), and the engine is a crate 302 with a billet serpentine conversion and lots of performance and appearance touches. The tranny is a c4 auto built by an outfit called BTE. It has updated suspension and disk brakes, along with nicely done stiffeners and sub frame connectors. It can certainly get out of its own way. The interior was incomplete, and all wrong for a mustang. I have mostly finished rebuilding it with stock style repop parts. This included removing the dash mounted DVD screen and the neon blue courtesy lighting. Aside from the engine, I am going to restore as many of the original Marti reported options as I can.
I asked a retired NTSB engineer pal to help me design a three point belt mount for the front and rear. He and I researched and build the mounts shown in the gallery. The geometry is only marginally safe, as it is still below my shoulder by about 10 degrees, but it was the best we could figure out for this car. It is similar to references in shop manuals from the time period, as well as several convertibles on the market today.
Check out my gallery for pics of the car and I will post more as time permits.
Thanks for reading this long message. This board feels more like a community that any I have seen. I hope to eventually fit in and to meet those of you who are in the DFW area. I will have plenty of stupid questions and look forward to your answers, especially the smart a$$ ones. If anyone needs any help with law, watch repair, standup comedy, saxophones or strip clubs, give me a shout.
Kev
When I was 15, my father and I purchased 2 mustang coupes, one 1967 and one 1968. We put them together into one “decent� frankencoupe. We did everything from bumper to bumper. I learned a lot, but much of it was bad habits. I sincerely hope one of you did not end up with this car, as it was a strange collection of parts held together with Bondo and bailing wire. There was also a half bag of skunky weed in a secret compartment in the console that I could not get out before my parents took the car away, but that is a different story. They took it away in 1985 when they came to my college graduation in my gift, a 1985 20th anniversary GT. I drove this car until it was stolen and never recovered in 1990.
In December of this year, I bought a “mostly� restored 1967 convertible. The well meaning prior owner “WMPO� was more of a street rod guy than a mustang guy. The sheet metal and paint are nice and the car is now rust free. It is candy apple red (the original color per the Marti report), and the engine is a crate 302 with a billet serpentine conversion and lots of performance and appearance touches. The tranny is a c4 auto built by an outfit called BTE. It has updated suspension and disk brakes, along with nicely done stiffeners and sub frame connectors. It can certainly get out of its own way. The interior was incomplete, and all wrong for a mustang. I have mostly finished rebuilding it with stock style repop parts. This included removing the dash mounted DVD screen and the neon blue courtesy lighting. Aside from the engine, I am going to restore as many of the original Marti reported options as I can.
I asked a retired NTSB engineer pal to help me design a three point belt mount for the front and rear. He and I researched and build the mounts shown in the gallery. The geometry is only marginally safe, as it is still below my shoulder by about 10 degrees, but it was the best we could figure out for this car. It is similar to references in shop manuals from the time period, as well as several convertibles on the market today.
Check out my gallery for pics of the car and I will post more as time permits.
Thanks for reading this long message. This board feels more like a community that any I have seen. I hope to eventually fit in and to meet those of you who are in the DFW area. I will have plenty of stupid questions and look forward to your answers, especially the smart a$$ ones. If anyone needs any help with law, watch repair, standup comedy, saxophones or strip clubs, give me a shout.
Kev
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