Good Afternoon All,

I am in the teardown stages of the restoration of my 1967 Playboy Pink Mustang. The car is a hardtop, straight six, and the frame/doghouse/floorpans are in extremely bad shape and need replacing. Possibly the fenders as well. However, the upper body of the car is in almost perfect shape. The roof/hood/decklid are great. All of the little grille and trim parts, including the bumpers, are intact and reusable.

While I am not yet to the point where I need to firmly decide what type of restoration I am going to do, factory original or restomod, I find myself torn between the two. While I would love to upgrade to disc brakes, power windows, LED taillights, etc... The rarity of the Playboy pink mustangs make the factory original restoration model seem very appealing as well. What are your thoughts on the subject?

Does the rarity of the playboy pink paint make it more worthwhile/unique/valuable to restore to stock?

Does the sheer amount of sheet metal that needs replaced make a restomod more practical?

Once finished, which would be more likely to turn heads or win awards at car shows? (Assuming I am capable of doing that well of a job on the restoration.)

Please let me know what you all think.

Thank You

 

If you are replacing rusted out floor pans, battery boxes, etc. you are not restomidding it. You will need to replace those just as you would if you were putting it back to factory original. Now, given the fact that it has a 6 banger in it, and it costs a lot of money to make it a V8 car, and the fact that it is a rare car in that it was originally painted Playboy Pink, and it has that in the VIN to prove it, I would put it back to bone stock original. Sell it for a lot of coin, and buy yourself a V8 Mustang to make into a modded car, if a modded car is what you want in the first place. Even the restomod crowd on here will tell you not to make a rare Mustang into a restomod.

 

All I have is opinions on the subject, and indecisive ones at that.

I would think that the playboy Mustang would be quite rare and worthy of restoration, but,,,, I can not see myself driving a pink Mustang, even a classic... Might think of restoring for my wife to drive though.

IMO, if you are not going to restore the car, and are thinking of going restomod, I think I might look for a car with a betterstarting point. I say this because there are still lots of relativly rust free I-6 and V-8 Mustangs available for a good price (I-6 cheaper).This would allow you to sell the rare car to someone who would want to restore it.

If I were in your shoesand was looking to restore the car, I would be very tempted to find a nice "donor car" to facilitate and simplify the process.

Hence a moral question, if you were to replace the body of the Playboy Mustang with another good body, would it still bea Playboy Mustang?

I mean the VIN is on the fender and not on the body right?

 

i think i agree with soaring, keep it original and sell if you can get a good price for it and buy back the mustang you really wanna have

arthur

 

Well I think the fact it is a 6 banger tells you that it isn't worth the time to restore to original, you can pull out that engine and trans and grap one from a mid 80's body style and get you a T-5 transmission conversion kit put it it instead. All you need is a cable clutch linkage conversion and a T-5 transmission crossmember an adapter plate which is about $470 or so. I just did this on mine you can get all these parts from CPC the number is 1-888-225-7669 they even have fiberglass fenders and hoods even side scoops. Come on get creative with your car. I did a off the chain hook up with my 67 fastback and I got all my parts from this place they are great quality.

 

I also agree with soaring. For that rare a car I would restore it.

 

Actually the color is called Playmate pink, not playboy pink. Here is a 66 in playmate pink.

 

I can't believe I am saying this, but I actually like that color combo. I'll throw in another vote for restoring it. If you want a muscular Mustang, the easiest and cheapest route is tostart with one that has a V8 anyway. You probably paid somewhat of a premium to get the PlaymatePinkversion of the car in the first place; why wouldn't you restore it? As pointed out earlier, you can get running , rust free, plainI6 Mustang coupes for comparitively cheap prices. if you paid a little extra for this particular type of Mustang, you woudn't want to throw that money away by modifying it.As far as the body goes, even restomodders usually keep the body the original style, because that's what makes the car such an eye catcher. They might change the stance a little through modifications to the suspension, and they will modify the engine and transmission. But,you always want to keep the body looking original, otherwise it kinda' defeats the purpose of getting a classic Mustang in the first place.

 

There are a lot of modifications you can do to a classic to make it look like something other than a stock classic. Body panels of all kinds can now be bought to change the appearance. Take the Eleanor for instance.

 

Restoring and selling seems like a great option to me. But then, what do I really know?