[Gregski]

Well six months ago my wife bought me the 302 V8 engine and a C4 transmission as a birthday present. Some of you may have suffered through my posts as I tried to bring back "Mud Dog" back to life, and with your help I believe we did it.

And now approximately six months later I picked up a 1968 Ford Mustang coupe. Pretty much complete except for the hood for $800 bucks = score! ... and by the way it came with a 289 V8 and another C4 tranny not to mention three different kinds of mismatched rims, LOL.

The county told the pre-previous owner to get rid of some of his Mustangs as he had 30 on his property, that's why they marked them with the "X" or they would be towed otherwise. He kept the convertibles and the fastbacks and started liquidating the others to his neighbors. I got this one from one of those neighbors, a real ford guy, who already had four vehicles not counting this one.

Check out some of the pics, and yes a lot of bits like the seats, hood hinges, bumpers, windows, trim, weather stripping, door panels, are not shown, because they came home in the back of my truck.

[wicked96gt]

awesome find! cant wait to see it after you finish it!

[MustangOne]

Looks Great, Just let us know when we can help...

[Gregski]

Instead of sanding and cleaning and disassembling I just got back from a five day LOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNGGGG camping trip with the family, can you say torture, guys? All I did was thumb through Mustang parts catalogs, LOL and drink beer dreaming.

Thank you all for checking out this post and wishing me luck and giving advice, here's a few more pics:

[Gregski]

Scored a used hood for it off of Craigslist for $60 bucks, believe it or not I pretty much have everything (in boxes, rafters, under the bed, lol for it) and all it needs is a lot of work, well except for the wear and tear items, like tires, brake shoes, fluids, belts, you get the idea.

$800 - car
$60 - hood
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$860 - TOTAL (so far...)

[Moosestang94]

goodluck man looks like you got yourself a nice project

[mayosailor27]

Great score man, you saved it

[1996 GT]

Its going to be incredible when your done.

[Gregski]

bought some 14 inch slotted wheels on Craigslist with two extra tires for $250, kinda wish they were 15 inchers at least but oh well

$800 - car
$ 60 - hood
$250 - wheels

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$1110 - TOTAL (so far...)

[Israel]

wondering where you were.

[Countryboy_99]

I LOVE SLOT MAGS!!

[Gregski]

Originally Posted by Countryboy_99 I LOVE SLOT MAGS!!

Yeah me too... oh wait you said Slot Mags not Slut Mags!!! my bad

[Gregski]

Originally Posted by Israel wondering where you were.

nursing a strep throat, apparently not all alcohol kills germs - who knew!

[Gregski]

well learned there's about 17 different lug nut types and out of the 7 different mixed and matched ones I had non were right for the wheels I just bought, so off to Tognotti's World I went and scored a set of the right ones at $2.25 each - yes I have the center caps I was just too excited to put one on for the photo opportunity, well maybe next time

$800 - car
$ 60 - hood
$250 - wheels
$ 50 - lug nuts (rounding for tax)


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$1160 - TOTAL (so far...)

[67ATX]

$60 hood?! You're gettin some deals!
On a side note, you're doin this car black right?

[Countryboy_99]

Originally Posted by Gregski Yeah me too... oh wait you said Slot Mags not Slut Mags!!! my bad

WHO'S THE PERVERT NOW GREGSKI!!!

[Gregski]

Originally Posted by 67ATX ... you're doin this car black right?

Silver, kinda leaning that Rascal Flatz type a paint style, I think it's Hot Rod Flatz by Kustom Shop, like this, though this picture doesn't show the color proper like it looked in person

[67ATX]

Oooh that'll be snazzy! I just wanted to clarify so our forum here wouldn't end up with 2 pretty identical end results haha. I'm gonna stay white but get a gt500 rear end and throw some black stripes on it.
Any new progress?

[Gregski]

Originally Posted by 67ATX I'm gonna stay white but get a gt500 rear end and throw some black stripes on it.

In that case I must go with the GT500 front end, actually I am seriously thinking of doing that, but realizing it's a lot of fiber glass parts and a some brackets to hold it all in place a kit could run $1,500 bucks and I paid... well you all know what I paid for this car - LOL

[67ATX]

Originally Posted by Gregski In that case I must go with the GT500 front end, actually I am seriously thinking of doing that, but realizing it's a lot of fiber glass parts and a some brackets to hold it all in place a kit could run $1,500 bucks and I paid... well you all know what I paid for this car - LOL

Ya that's a whole lot more work & muhnay
I'm only planning on doing the lip spoiler, no california tail lights. I believe those fiberglass trunks go for around $400 and then each rear corner of the quarter panel is $45.

How costly is a shelby front end conversion?