New Member With 69 Grande In Marion, Illinois

[Steve Maxwell]

Good Day All,
My wife and I just purchased THE 1969 Mustang Grande that her father bought new and she drove a short time while in HS this past weekend. Long story...shortened. Her dad thought the 69 with the 351W, 2 barrel car in Champagne Gold with Nugget Gold interior was too powerful and sold it a few years after purchase. He passed a few years ago suddenly without telling any of his 4 kids where it went. I did a creative internet search and found it was bought, driven and stored this whole time in a shed in the very town it was purchased. We bought it from the son whose grandfather purchased it way back when. It will now return to the family to be restored. Needless to say this once in a lifetime opportunity could not be passed up. And needless to say we paid a premium for a non running car needing work. Fortunately, the fluids were drained and the car is about 95% complete. The owner had thoughts of giving it to his son and even let him start refinishing the paint. So it is in partial disassembly right now. It will be delivered this next Saturday and the fun will begin....

 

[horse sence]

That is pretty cool .glad you were able to find it again .

I moved you over to classic 64 1/2 -73 classic talk
to Stangnet

 

[horse sence]

We love pics here so post some up when you get the car

 

[tos]

Sweet deal. I wish I had the resources to locate my 64 1/2 that I had in high school but that's pretty much impossible here in Ohio. Please post pics of your progress.

 

[horse sence]

My grand father bought me my first car ,a very beat 66 Mustang coupe .
I put it back together ,with the help of my dad, and drove it all through high school. I bought a 77 Trans Am limited edition my last year of school and gave the Mustang to my brother who drove it to High school.
My brother sold it when he finished school. About 10 years later we were looking at some Mustangs for sale a few towns over ,I walked passed a beat up 66 coupe when my brother said (Would you look at that ) i said what, it is just an old coupe .He laughed and said, yeah but it is our old coupe . Yep it was the old car ,looking in the glove box there was a couple of old receipts with my name on them .I bought it for a couple hundred dollars .It was in such bad shape i parted it out ,
but i got to use the hood both doors and the front fenders on the GT convertible i was building .

 

[madspeed]

welcome aboard. Great story! My very first car was a 69 Grande, bought with my own money when I was 15! wish i still had that one