Project 69 mustang "Sally"

[MattWash08]

Long Term Plans/Goal.........
-completely change the suspension to something modern
-big brakes
-bodywork(theres a TON to be done, and minitubs)
-cage(if door bars are low enough for dd duty(I dont like swing out bars) or 4 point roll bar
-some nice wheels with good tires
-built modern ford motor of some sort(supercharged or turbo'd)
-6 speed
-9 inch rearend
-updated interior with racing style seats and i really like the racepack dash monitor
AND I DO MEAN LONG TERM!!!!! haha

I wasnt sure if I was even going to make a prject thread because I am nowhere near being able to turn this car into what I actually want it to be. Long story short, I bought this car off of ebay three months after I turned 15. I had a deal with my father that whatever I saved up until i wanted a car he would match. Ended up being able to get this car and have it shipped down from Pennsylvania..(It DEFINATELY has plenty of rust from being up there)..

This is the oldest picture I have of the car



At the time I had only had the car for 15 months But I had my eye on the 2005 mustang... glad I never had the heart to actually sell it. Oh and by the way this was the car I drove to Highschool starting my Sophomore year since it was my only car.

The car went through some pretty basic driveability/creature comfort mods over the next 2 years.
-power breaks w/front discs to replace the old manual drums
-had a/c put on the car(broke the fitting to the condensor, so the compressor isn't even mounted right now)
-loud stereo, which I have since taken out the subwoofers/amp
-ditched the open 2.79 gears and got 3.80's and an auburn posi(yes still an 8 inch though /: )

And that is how the car stayed from about summer 2007 until January of 2010.

Heres where I actually started doing some of my own work. A friend of my fathers who is a very active car enthusiast was gracious enough to let me use his shop for free(lift/tools/ anything I could have imagined was in there)...His way of teaching me was telling me to figure it out or ask and he would tell me but he refused to help because he said it was good for me. I am soo thankful for that, it made me so much more confident in my ability to work on this car. I was 20 at the time that I did this.

-replaced both shock towers/patched part of the front passenger frame rail

First time I had taken a hood off lol



Definately the first time I have taken a motor/trans out



Now I know I should have taken the fenders off and everything to replace the shock towers but we were afraid of what we might find since this car has rust
issues and its a BEATER, The only reason I have it is to drive the crap out of it. Which I do regularly



new ones in


took it for a drive around the block to check out my handy work haha