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Just bought a 66 Mustang Coupe with a 289 for my wife last week. Body is in great shape with solid floors!
Here is a list of things that was already done to the car when purchased
1. New wheels and tires
2. Fiberglass GT hood
3. Front brakes converted to Disc
4. New suspension( shocks,springs,leaf springs, control arms, tie rods etc.)
5. Pertonix coil and ignitor
6. rear seat new upolstery
7. Tail lights converted to LED
I think there is more but this is all I can remember for now.
Here is a list of parts that are brand new and not put on the car yet when purchased.
1. New front seat upolstery
2. New sound deadening matting for under the carpet
3. New pre molded carpet
4. New instrament bezel
5. New tail light and exhaust bezels
6. New door handles
7. New mirrors
8. New door panels w/arm rests
9. New windshield and rear window seals
10. New headliner
11. New back up and turn signal lights
12. Found a Edelbrock performer 289 manifold in the trunk w/ a shop manual (this is going on the new motor)
13. New window crank handles
14. New hood seal
15. New emblems
I think there is more to this list also but can't recall everything
Here is what I'm having done right now
1. New 302 roller motor beeing built to replace the old wore out 289 but using the old 289 heads on the new motor and having a new carb put on it
2. Having the C4 completely rebuilt
Here is what I just ordered or bought for the car already (sure there will be more to come, LOL)
1. JBA full exhaust sytem (headers, H-pipe, rear section all the way out)(had to cut out the old pieced together system that was U-bolted together so tight that it locked everything together)
2. Kick down cable (old one was broken)
3. Neutral safety switch (old ones wiring was chewed up)
4. Engine to firewall ground wire (old one was frayed and rusted)
5. New water pump for new motor (not going to put a old water pump on a new motor)
6. Valve cover gaskets
7. New tranny dipstick tube and dipstick (old dipstick was broke right at the top of the tube)
8. New heavy duty motor mounts (old ones were dry rotted)
9. New oil pressure sending unit (not sure if the old one worked so replacing it anyways)
10. New stainless steel trans cooler lines (old ones are not leaking but beat up so throwing in some new ones)
11. New radiator hose kit ( self explanitory)
Future plans for some of our Income Tax Return money
1. Complete A/C Kit from Vintage Air (It gets super hot here in Phoenix and this is going to be the wifes daily driver so she needs A/C for her and our 9 month old daughter when she is driving her around too!)(we were going ot get the A/C kit now but after having to get the exhaust system we are short for the A/C kit, so we are getting it after Income Tax Return now)
So reading everything, how much do you think we paid for the car? Or how much should we have paid for it?
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Last edited by AllStar80; 01-28-2009 at 02:04 PM.
Reason: No need to create a new thread, just change the title of the old thread and problem solved
Hey I'm in Phoenix also, who is doing the work for you?? Doing it yourself??
Not sure what the Coupes are going for especially with all those parts included.
Is the body in good shape? Is it an Arizona car?? meaning no rust.
It was a Cali car originally but been here in AZ for a long time. I pulled the tranny and stuff off the stock 289 that needed to go to the motor guy and he is building the motor and his guy is building the tranny. I will put everything back in when it is done, but first I have to get the old block out of the car but I don't have a cherry picker or engine stand so I have to borrow that stuff.
And the cars body is 95% straight. there is 2 little popped out spots on the front doors where it looked like someone adjusted the doors wrong at one point but they are really small and fixable. The other things are the back left corner and front left corner had been damaged at one point. you can tell from the inside of the trunk where it was banged out and in the front you can see where it has been fixed up. But from the outside of the car you can't tell unless you look really hard at the rear left and can tell it still needs some tweaking or replacement parts but it is all fixable and there is no damage on the outside of the car, it looks straight and new!
I have a '66 and yours is in way better shape than mine was / is when I first bought it...at least from the sounds of it. Mines getting there very slowly.
I have a '66 and yours is in way better shape than mine was / is when I first bought it...at least from the sounds of it. Mines getting there very slowly.
Ok are they working now?
I think the pics of the car will shock some, the car is in really good shape. It does need new paint but not because it is faded, because it doesn't have clearcoat on it and there is some scratches and scrapes in the paint plus the fiberglass hood is still black.
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The 66 Project Mustang for my Wife
