I never thought about it that way but you are probably right. How many 32 Ford purists cringed when they saw the Chevy in there? My boys are still young but they see Fast and Furiest and think those rice burners are the coolest. Well to them they may be. I think they look at me and my "old" car and think why bother? But in the end we can enjoy cars together, I'll talk about the cars they likw with them and even see some at car shows and let them stop and check them out even if it's not my thing. Thats what this forum is too. We can can enjoy Mustangs and help each other out whether it's a stocker question or EFI. A wealth of knowledge and experiance here.
My 2 cents anyway and thankyou Soaring for your insite on the 32.
Craig

 

Finally! That's the answer I was looking for from Soaring. I was just curious as to why the original mustang struck a chord with him. Settled. Now we know.

Mine was restored as an original 6-cyl over the course of 1 1/2 years. I did it all, mostly because I chose not to afford the labor of a painter etc... and I can do just about anything if I can find enough information about the pitfalls. I put it in one large show when I finished it, concourse original 64 1/2-65, and I placed second. My father in law said it was the best driving 65 he had ever driven. That may be true, but IT SUCKED! I drove it that way for 3 years. I'm not going to have 4 or 5 cars in my collection. There's my daily driver, and my toy. And this toy gave me no joy. So what do I do with this nice car??? No one wanted this nice little 6-banger. Do I sell it for a loss? Do I sell it despite my wife's attachment to the car her father owned since she was 15? Or, do I create something that I can love? Since the museums weren't beating my doors down to buy my original, valueless car, and I was already waaaaaaaay upside-down on it, I decided to re-invent it, and I have no regrets. There was, at the very least, one car right here in town that beat me in the original competition. He's got that preservation thing down. What audience was I preserving it for? I've got pictures if anyone cares... but no one does.


I can tell you this; in the three + years that I drove the original, I had a handful of compliments. Mind you, that's not what I'm after. But since the wheels and stance is enhanced, and with the replacement of the puuuuur with a little rumble, I can't take it out without getting compliments at every turn. It's much more enjoyed in its current configuration.

 

As far as the "new generation of performance" or whatever it goes by with those "Fast and the Furious" ricer cars....there are some that are fast, and look decent and the drivers are cool. But there are just way, WAY too many ricers out there that think the new Eclipses, and SRT 4's or Honda Civic Si's are just the baddest car out there, and will whip any "Old, heavy American pile of steel." Yes, I've had people tell me my Mustang weighs so much that's why a Honda can whip it. I'm like "What are you smoking, my car only weighs like 200-300lbs more than your Honda, but has twice as many cylinders and almost 3x the displacement." They're quite shocked when my 40+ year old car puts a major beat down on their Scion, or SRT-4 or Honda, or whatever it may be. I have no problem with someone that mods a car, whether it's a Mustang or a Honda, as long as they do it right and aren't a retard about it and think they're the fastest dude around. I and many others get bugged by the retards that drive cars that are OBVIOUSLY much slower, yet still think they're faster....THOSE are the people I have a problem with

 

There's the rub. I hate the fact that there is a Chevy in every early Ford. [:@] Flatheads forever!!!!

 

Cuz they spend all the money on body parts, interior and chrome, they don't have enough left to get anything other than a dime-a-dozen 350 crate engine. Seriously though, like just aboutevery 30's Ford I see, has the exact same Chevy 350 crate engine in it

 

I put that 350 in it because it was cheap, and could make good power cheaply. I almost bought a 454 that had about 450 horsepower, but the rearend in the coupe was not strong enough. Every Junkyard had dozens of the 350 and 283 engines in them and so were practically giving them away. I did this years before I got my Mustang.

 

I think that right there sums it up nicely..

 

Soaring- Do I see Magnum 500 wheels on your 65? Those aren't original. SINNER!!!!!!!

 

Safe to say that everbody draws a line in the sand someplace. Just that no two people will draw it in the same place.

 

Yeah, I have mag 500's, and I have a Monte Carlo Bar, and I have an export brace, and I have a 4 row radiator, and I have a shroud, and I have a radiator reservoir bottle, and I drive my car every day in the hot Texas sun. Everything I have added to my car is for practical reasons. To either make it safer, or to make it more driveable. Afterall, it is on the road with other cars, and it is my responsibility to make my car as safe to drive as it can be. Is it a restomod? I don't know, and I really don't care. But it does not have an EFI engine in it. And it never will.