88Mach1

[sm=drooldude.gif] wow! that's awesome. looks like it's been 17 years well spent.

6marc5

Car looks great! After 17 years in the making,you must be grinning ear 2 ear taking it out for a ride?!

67 evil eleanor

Yeh, it looks nice. I would let the car adjust for a few months before I started cutting the springs. That BIG 385 series up front will yeild ample horsepower and more important, torque. What heads? Anyway, its gotta be a blast.

tarafied1

Let's see if I can answer everyone's questions,
Clone? It is kind of a clone I guess. I always wanted a Shelby, but even back in the day I couldn't afford one. When I started this project I had the Shelby in mind. I was going to use a 68 nose. Since I had a hardtop I was thing of a "Little Red" or "Green Hornet" kinda thing. I had done the rear of the car early on but had the stock 67 front-end. In 2000 when the movie came out I knew I needed the Eleanor nose. I have had the car 17 years but haven't worked on it a solid 17, I only worked on things when time and money allowed. It was primer for many years so switching gears on the E nose wasn't a big deal.
This is what it looked like most of those years.

The 5 leaf springs I bought from Mustangs Plus...
The engine is a 1970 429 with the DOVE heads. TRW forged flat top pistons (10.5:1) and a SCJ cam profile. Holley 770 and MSD. She has gobs of torque!

tarafied1

That's going to look nice!

sschanz

Inspiration for us all! Nice job.

dr1965

car is sweet Looking!!! Love that color and rim combo!!
whats up with your door handles?

tarafied1

You might also notice that I have no wipers or window trim, etc. The car still needs to be wet sanded and buffed. I am waiting to put that stuff on afterwards. I wanted to put the engine/trans, suspenion, etc back on in case I scratched it or something (which I did) so they can fix it. Then I'll put all the trim including the handles on. My wife is thinking I just dont want handles cuz it hasn't had the handles on it for 17 years! The bodyshop is backed up with work so they can't get the car back in until January.
Thanks for all the compliments. I know a lot of people couldn't see my vision of what it would be, and now I can finally show them a near finished product.

pokertramp

I really like the front, I am guessing that is the Eleanor apron. Think I have to stick with the R-model apron. I have a 66 coupe and was wondering, do you know if the side skirts fit on a 66 and is it cosmetic or do you have your exhaust run to them? Car looks amazing man, keep up the great work.

4reboy

your car is comming together reallly nicely man, keep up the great work.

and PS, I like the stance