1965 Mustang GT5.0 at GAP Racing

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This project is a 1965 Mustang that the owner has had since it was new. The car was originally green. He then painted it red back in the 70's and did a lot of drag racing with it. The car had had a hard life and then was put away for over 20 years. Most of his family members have forgotten about it. When the car came to us, the plan was to go back original and install a mild 289 and a 4 speed. As with many project, things changed. We sat down and discussed hos options for making it more modern, giving him the ability to actually drive it and enjoy it.

1965 Ford Mustang Fast Back GT :

Total Cost Involved Front Suspension
Total Cost Involved Torque Arm Rear Suspension
Ford Motorsports 5.0 Crate Engine
American Powertrain 5 Speed Trans
Wilwood 4 Piston 13" Brake kit front and rear
Ford 9" Housing
Mini Tubs
Vintage Air
Plus more........

Here is the project the day we picked it up




So as we started to do the tear down, we realized the car was in need of a lot of sheet metal.


Headed off to the media blaster

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When we got it back to the shop, we started replacing the inner tubs with a wider version, new Quarters, Floors, Trunk, Doors, Fenders, pretty much most of the sheet metal was replaced






The new power plant arrived


Gives you an idea of how large this little motor really is

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Both shock towers and the entire front inner fender area was destroyed. It had been in an accident and the repair was horrible. We cut it all out of the way and started installing the TCI front suspension


Test fit the engine


Started fabricating some better looking panels to clean up the engine bay area


Then we installed the 5.0 with the 5 Speed. Then we ended up raising the trans tunnel

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Fabbed up a radiator mount.


And a cover to hide the cap and the air intake

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The drip rails needed some attention. They were rotten and falling off


Once all the sheet metal was lined out, we started hacking up the front bumper to make it fit tighter




The rear bumper needed a lot of attention too


Once they were trimmed and notched and re shaped, we took them off and welded all the holes up too

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Suspension stuff is headed out to the powder coater

Body is off to paint

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Body Shop update. All the body work is done




Customer ended up going with a Nissan Redline Red

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Hope to have some more updates early in January. As soon as its buffed out, we will have it in the clean room so it can go back together.

We did not do a lot of custom stuff to the car. Customer wanted to keep all the factory trim and stainless. Should be a really cool driver.

[Radlark]

WOW!!! You guys are very talented very nice work thanks for sharing!!!!

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We found a textured powder coat for the suspension that matched the Valve covers and intake