Re: [Classic Mustang] 64-1/2 Info

 Phil,

I am in the process of restoring my 68 coupe.  Mine is a plane jane coupe with a 6 banger, which is fine with me.  I do not have the time or resources to do a frame off, but if you do, I would recommend it.  I am doing mine with my 15 yr old daughter so we can both have a nice Sunday driver.  She loves to brag to all her male classmates that she will have a 68 Mustang to drive...

Anyway, There are tons of places to get parts.  The first decision you need to make is do you want to only put on parts ment for your car (year and model) or would you like to mix it up a bit (as the boys from Barrett Jackson, Restoration or Restoremod).  I am going in the direction of only putting on things ment for my 68 Coupe, mostly aftermarket.  you can find plenty of vendors on ebay or on-line.  I have had a lot of luck with CJ Pony Parts out of PA.   Most of the vendors are glad to speak to you and give you thier opinion on how to do things. 

One thing that you will want to do is take plenty of pictures when you are taking it apart.  There are about a zillion little things that you may forget when you finally get to putting it back together, and with digital photographs, it is a very worth while task, plus it makes a nice historical album to show off!

Once again, good luck.

Paul

On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 12:40 PM, Ray Davison wrote:

Phil Snyder wrote:

> This will be my first real restoration, and want to do a ground up.

> To avoid doing things twice, I would like to converse with guys that

> have done this before and would willing to be a source of advice

> through the project.  Any volunteers?

As it applies to your current project, define "restoration" .  I consider

all vehicles as-built to be raw material for the owner to continue to

build-to-suit.  My 65 has been a 44 year work-in-progress, tho not much

lately.  But at some time just about everything has been removed and

replaced but not necessarily with the original type part.  It now looks

like this:

http://picasaweb. google.com/ raydav94/ 65351W#

I also have a 71 and two 73 Mach 1s.  They are basically the same as the

65.  All three of those I stripped to the tub - if it had a frame I

would call it a frame-off.  I would definitely recommend that in your

case.  Anything that can be removed should be.

As to how you put it back together, there are more options than you

probably ever will know about.  As for me, my 65 is my favorite vehicle.

I will probably never get rid of it.  But face it, it was built as a

cheap little throw-away.  It now deserves  better.

Have fun.

Ray

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