65 Mustang Fastback pro-touring build

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Well I have finally decided to bite the bullet and go ahead and put together a build thread, somewhat for my own sanity so I can keep track of this money pit and see how much it has changed over the past 4 years, from me learning to tinker with it at 17 years old, to me now building it as a pro-touring car at the age of 21.

Little back story on the car, it was my cousins first car back in 2000 or 2001 that he drove during high school, and because it was my big cousin's car, that made a 65 Fastback my dream car, and that very vintage burgundy metallic that my cousin had, was THE car I wanted when I got older. So fast forward to spring of 2010, when I was 17, which was also my junior year in high school, and the car came up for sale, mostly because my cousin had lost interest in the car, it was just sitting out in front of their house just wasting away, and they could use the money. So on April 25th of 2010 my uncle, dad, and myself went and looked at the car and bought it with the intentions of it being a father/son project.

Had the car towed home on a tow truck from Hayward CA to Alamo because the right front brake caliper was seized up. Got it home and had tons of friends and neighbors over all day to come check it out while we cleaned it and then shoved it in the garage. That entire day of bringing it home was like being on cloud 9, I was so excited and that is a day that I will never forget!

Hope you all like my story!!

Nik Becker


Going to pic her up




After getting home




After getting the car back, my dad and I did little things here and there on it over the summer of 2010 going into my senior year at San Ramon Valley High, and we got it to a point where I could drive it to school and around town with all my friends safely and man did we all have a blast in it.


putting a new sending unit into my lovely dented fuel tank....








So after driving it a few months my dad and I decided it was time to swap the motor, convert to disc brakes, new front suspension, and put a rack and pinion set up in it, which I regret so so so much! The rack and pinion that is, which I am still in the process of converting back to a gear box set up.





after the motor and suspension conversion