Just joined here. Here's my story- I got my first 65 Mustang in 2007. My then girlfriend, now wife, bought it for me as a gift. We did the cliche thing and named her Sally.
Unfortunately at the end of 07 I was involved in a pretty bad accident. Here is what she looked like after the wreck....
I was young and didn't have the funds or knowledge to fix the car, so I sold it. My wife and I had always talked about trying to get it back. We always had a really special connection with that car. We even have a painting of it in the garage that my wife painted from when we took the car the its first car show.
About a month ago, I put up an ad on Craigslist looking for the guy who bought my Mustang. A few hours after posting it, he called me and he actually still had it! Turns out he had been saving it for me all these years in case I ever came back for it. So 9 years later I'm finally getting my car back!
It hasn't really been touched in that time other than the wheels are now gone, engine is gone and all the damaged panels have been removed. Other than that, the car was untouched. Even the date of the crash was still written on the windshield from the tow yard that picked it up.
He was nice enough to hold onto it for another month while I finished redoing the floors in my garage in preparation for the return of Sally. I finally brought her home last weekend!
I did a little clean up on the interior and I was surprised that it really doesn't look much different than it did nearly a decade ago.
But after the clean up, it was time to start stripping the interior out. (The whole car will be going down to bare shell, but I figured the interior was a good place to start). I did discover some rust in the front floor boards, but the floors would need to be replaced anyway even if there was no rust. The impact was so hard that it bent both framerails and the floor buckled in a couple places. The floor and everything from the firewall forward will need to be replaced.
I have a very long project ahead of me, but I'm so happy to have my car back!
Unfortunately at the end of 07 I was involved in a pretty bad accident. Here is what she looked like after the wreck....
I was young and didn't have the funds or knowledge to fix the car, so I sold it. My wife and I had always talked about trying to get it back. We always had a really special connection with that car. We even have a painting of it in the garage that my wife painted from when we took the car the its first car show.
About a month ago, I put up an ad on Craigslist looking for the guy who bought my Mustang. A few hours after posting it, he called me and he actually still had it! Turns out he had been saving it for me all these years in case I ever came back for it. So 9 years later I'm finally getting my car back!
It hasn't really been touched in that time other than the wheels are now gone, engine is gone and all the damaged panels have been removed. Other than that, the car was untouched. Even the date of the crash was still written on the windshield from the tow yard that picked it up.
He was nice enough to hold onto it for another month while I finished redoing the floors in my garage in preparation for the return of Sally. I finally brought her home last weekend!
I did a little clean up on the interior and I was surprised that it really doesn't look much different than it did nearly a decade ago.
But after the clean up, it was time to start stripping the interior out. (The whole car will be going down to bare shell, but I figured the interior was a good place to start). I did discover some rust in the front floor boards, but the floors would need to be replaced anyway even if there was no rust. The impact was so hard that it bent both framerails and the floor buckled in a couple places. The floor and everything from the firewall forward will need to be replaced.
I have a very long project ahead of me, but I'm so happy to have my car back!
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