Build Thread 429MII's Build Thread

Still alive. Covid, flood,changed jobs, 6 feet of snow. I cannot wait till spring. Car is patiently waiting. for something to look at I got this in the summer

I am here! Sorry for the long time no post. I moved and am in the process (just started) of building a new shop. More to come once it's built!

LILCBRA said:

I can't answer the other questions, but he built his own headers. Page 13 shows some progress.

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Trans is a David Kee toploader, and I scratch built the headers.

Hi Noobz347 and anyone else brushing away my cobwebs and musty smell of formaldehyde.

Yes, well ,I see I'm not the only one lol, since there are no less than169 pages of posts on the "crap I'm doing that's not Mustang" thread. Life gets in the way sometimes. Every now and then my Mustang build thread has a case of the same thing, and then goes off line for like 2 years.....

I have not forgotten about my Mustang brethren, and I feel bad for leaving everyone hanging. Sh!t, I feel bad for leaving myself hanging, but I am a creature of my own ruination when it comes to finishing a project. I'm like a "90% finished then add another project.. and then "oh what's that shiny thing over there, squirrel!".. kinda guy. I hate myself for it and it causes me endless cost and frustration. I just cannot seem to learn my own lesson. I'd ground myself but then nothing would get done.
I am project overflow right now and I still spend hours on Marketplace and Craigslist burning my retinas on all kinds of crap while quietly justifying every damn potential project with some brainy twist that makes sense of it. I have a double garage with 2 projects, a sea can full of parts and a chopper project and two more stored at a warehouse costing me 300 bucks a month each. I'm in deep and I am an idiot.

So..... since I been gone, (try to get Kelly Clarkson out of your head now I dare you) vehicle wise, I sold the '77 Nova, bought a 1937 Ford coupe (stock runner) still have my 1968 Biscayne, and I bought a 1977 Chevy shortbox step-side 4x4 out of Washington state. I built from scratch a hardtail shovelhead chopper out of a 1981 Superglide that I bought much, much, MUCH, against my wife's wishes. I must say though it looks verrry cool even in its 90% state all raked out with its girder front end, sporty tank, exposed belt drive and generally devilish attitude. So there you have it. My spiral into a cluster-duck of projects at 90% completion, heaven help me can I get an amen..

All that said, I need to finish the truck first because I want to DD it and its like 3 weeks or a month from completing to that point. After that I will be back on the M2 whilst still trying to finish the choppa. Oh, and also In the way of my "grand scheme" is a big dirty hole behind my garage waiting for concrete and sticks and various other Lego to get my shop built.

Next step on the Mustang is to finish the steering. Not sure if I went through that on the thread but I found a Granada tilt column and frankenstein-ed that to with M2 parts and got it....you guessed it...90% of the way done. After that it's weld up the headers that I fabbed up and figure out how to do that in such a way that I can get them in and out again.

I am 90% of the way through this post and ..uh.. I smell dinner.., so ....