1966 Fastback track toy - for my 10 month old

[Try2paz]

The owner of my company who is also a huge car nut decided to sell of most of his collection. He was big into the spec mustang world challenge series for many years.

I've always wanted a 65/66 Fastback even though most are old tired V8's that are bone stock but I just loved the lines and the look. He happened to have a 66 that his wife used for shelby track days. It's been sitting for 10yrs and we came to a price and I had to have it. So I left Dublin CA, at 6AM and drove to Huntington Beach and picked it up. I also sold this to my wife as this would be our daughters first car =)

It will mostly be a track / autocross car only, I've got the Nova for Friday night duty. I'm setting up the car for Cam T SCCA autocross. I know my tire width will be a major limiting factor in that series considering all the top dogs are running 305's or wider squared + full chassis etc but I will have fun with it and for my budget I will be ecstatic if I get the car mid pack.

So here she is day one picking her up.





Got her home and started tearing it apart! What else do you do when you buy a running car but make it not run..



started with the cooling system.. new water pump, new C&R radiator / fans/ t-stat.



While I waited for the radiator to be built.. started tackling the fuel system.

It had a fuel cell so we pulled that and started spot welding 40yrs of people drilling holes in the trunk.