Visit Dad and start a, "Father Son Project".

You put up the labor and he puts up the................. well maybe 50/50 would be an easier sell.

There are a Gillion Go-Fast parts for the early Mustangs and you already have one in the family.

No thought here, Go with the STANG!!

tyoneal

No dice on the 70! I told my pops that I'm having a real hard time finding a rust free car, prices are high and told him not to sell his--unless he sells it back to me.

He agreed with me that prices were high and it's hard to find good cars...that was the end of the conversation! LOL! That's ok. He really enjoys the car and I don't want to take that away from him so I'm not going to push it.

So where do I stand now? I don't know...

AMC Gremlin?

70 fastback
 

I have a friend that has one you may be able to get for around $13,000. It has a 351 and 4 speed. Body is solid, needs small floor pan rust repair on passenger side. Rest of the body is rust free...and no it is not an original 351 or 4 speed car. Good 10 footer and a great place to start a project. Drive and update a little at a time. I personally would do the suspension first.

You could always pull that 5.0 motor out of the other stang and put a pro-charger on it and drop it in..or turbos.

Hey Poorman. I think you need to take a step back and take this all in. If you look on this site and take a look at the cars here, there should be some of not most that would catch your eye, but we cannot provide you a base to start with if you don't know. What I'm saying is you should always look to find what you really want. You post a lot of questions as soon as you got here and that's fine, but what I'm wondering is, will this enthusiasm last? You need to ask yourself what you really want, are you dedicated to spending the kind of money you think that you will spend, because if you are, plan on at least spending double that on a rebuilding project. One leads to another and another and so on. That's why I suggested early on that you find a really nice car, mostly done and put your finishing touches on it. I say this because you have a set amount to work with. Some of us have the means to spend a little extra in doing a full build, but if I had it to do over, I would have gone that route and found something I really liked and then put my touches on it, and not do a full rebuild. These things are not cheap.

Didn't mean to bombard the forum with questions. Sorry for being the overzealous newbie. And I thank all for the help and sound advice. I'm at the bottom of the learning curve. I work hard and fast when I want something so I made it a point to get as much info as quickly as I could. Price info was kind of difficult to come by and came later than the tech info, so as pricing became apparent I started to realize that I probably can't build what I want without spending more than I'd like.

You may have noticed I haven't been posting as much as I had, that's because I'm taking some time to reassess my options and goals.

Signing off for now...

I think I came across wrong. What I meant was by posting as much as you do, is will this last? I enjoy the posts, but I was curious if you still will be gung ho about this 6 months from now type of thing. I hope I did not come across wrong, last thing I want to do is discourage you from posting. If this is what you want to do, then you should be asking all the questions. I would just hate to see you spend a ton of money on a spur of the moment project and get stuck with something you don't want or was talked into.

Not at all. You guys have been great and very helpful.

Not sure I pursued this right but my whole deal was: I tried to determine what would be a good car to build for my needs, then I had to engineer the car, then I started pricing the parts and such...so it wasn't really until step 3 I started to realize this was going to cost a lot more than I had hoped. I'm just not willing to drop the kind of coin it would take to build what I want.

You'll probably not see me posting nearly as much from now on. You guys were all very helpful and answered all my questions. I don't see a viable solution right now, but maybe I can figure something out.

Take care,
Dave