Nice Fairlane, glad you went with that year. :lol: AND leave MY vinyl top intact.

Hey Steve
Didn't mean to blow the whole budget in one paragraph.
just a bunch of ideas, i agree that the paint looks not bad but if it was me i would do something with the bumpers. the handles not a big deal.
what about a silver roof hood and trunk???
what are you thinking for the interior ??? :willy:

Since you like it so much I will mail it to you when it's off the car .. :rofl:

http://i14.ebayimg.com/03/i/08/af/76/90_12.JPG
Make rear look more like this with blackout.
Blackout hood treament,GT hood pins
Blackout front grill,remove inside headlites for ram-air
GT rear spoiler,Go-Wing type
I remember alot of those cars with rear window louvers that looked cool.
http://www.tirerack.com/images/wheel..._blk_ci3_l.jpg
Some kinda black wheel with polished lip
4-wheel discs
http://www.twistmachine.com/products/productlead.jpg
TM Shifted AOD
http://popularhotrodding.com/enginem..._500Hp25_z.jpg
Big Block w EFI...just dreaming. :D

The window louvers came on the GT's. They also had hideaway headlights, which just made that body to me. One of my best buds in high school had one. It was the first cam, intake and carb swap I ever did. The car had a 302, two barrel. We put in a cam, swapped intake and carb. The car slowed down, got worse gas mileage and never ran right after that, but looked much better...lol
Ok, then we put on THRUSH mufflers...thats another story for another time. :lol:

I like the vinyl top but then again we usually do not agree anyway.

How about a F.A.S.T. style Touring ride. Instead of the same old bolt on catalog Queen how about taking whatever parts it has and modifying them? Ported cast iron intake and exhaust. Killer Rochester from Carb Shop or any of the others. Every intrernal part tweaked. Barry Rabotnick can get that thing moving.

Take that same approach to the suspension and brakes. A lot of old race tricks to make the optimum OEM style parts work. Heck there are so many guys with ideas have some sort of suspension design contest using mostly stock parts but altering geometry and better wearable components.

That is a cool car because of it's originality. Either go all the way or keep it stock appearing.

great score
 

congratulations on coming over to the dark (blue) side.

Its hard to love vinyl tops, but it is hard not to love the magnum 500s.

good news: ford front suspensions are pretty much unchanged from the 1960 falcon - 1980 granada.

bad news: they're a little bit different, but all parts are made for mustangs.

here is a tase of what you're up against

http://www.cs.odu.edu/~mln/fairlane/fairlane-rack/

this installation is based on the instructions at this page:

http://www.totalcontrolproducts.com/index_fairlane.html

little know fact -- ford 385 series (i.e., "429-460") is about 80 lbs heavier than a ford FE (390-428).

but 385s are a bunch cheaper than FEs. but FEs are much better looking ;-)

Great Find Steve.

I think I would either upgrade to hideaway headlights or try to sink those headlights into the grill to make it have more of a flush look. That and the blacked out look someone had on the tailights would make the car.

Just my 2 cents

Nice find you got there and at that price you really cant beat it

That grill is worth $1200.. I'm not touching it.. lol