if you modify the pans you'll probably need to do the carpet then but you can always wait on the headliner on a bit if you want. /QUOTE]
Yeah, I'm going to have to do the interior in phases do to cost for sure. I was planning on replacing my dash and upgrading the gauge cluster first but I may do the seats first instead. I also have some trim pieces I need to buy and/or refinish on the exterior that need to be done.
I had to do the same thing a while back. I had a fairly rare British sports car that my father had raced and I was planning on restoring but decided to sell it to buy our first house. Although I would love still have the car, the reality is that I would never have had the $$ to properly restore the car back then and it really helped us get into the house and the guy that bought it wound up restoring it and racing it in a vintage racing series which is pretty cool. Even now I don't have the kind of $$ to do all the upgrades to my Stang as quickly as I would like, the car is mostly complete and I love driving it. Thanks for your help and input!!
well reality for me is a bit different since the car is already completely finished, i wouldn't be able to sell it for enough to really help unless it was, not only that it was my first car and i've had it for going on 24 years now, so selling it is going to hurt quite a bit but i do have a 69 cougar project to help ease the pain a little. still, selling the stang is not something i'm really looking forward to, however i am excited about about doing the cougar, especially since i will be able to it exactly the way i wanted to do the stang but didn't because i decided to make it appeal to more people when i sell it. it was about 3/4 done when i decided to sell it so i had to sidestep/backup on some things and completely rethink others when i decided to sell it but because of that i now have a bunch of left over parts that i'll use on the cougar, things like my TCP rack, 68 stang overhead console, intermittent wipers, wheels, tilt column, rear defogger, original C90X aluminum ford muscle parts intake, power trunk release, fox body seats, etc. should be a fun project and i have a parts list of stuff to get for the restomod part of it a mile long but the replacement parts list is tiny since the car is a 75,000 mile original survivor car. it needs paint, weatherstripping, carpet and probably a headliner, otherwise the car is a totally rust free, solid project that doen't even need any real bodywork, it has the usual parking lot dings but that's it.
in case you can't tell i'm really happy to be getting this car, especially for the $1200 price tag of which i've already paid $900 of. once the stang is sold $10k is going to the house and the rest will go to the cougar, that should leave me enough to most if not all of the basic stuff i want to do to it and the rest will come with time and income tax checks.
My legs hit the bottom of my steering wheel and I don't want the seat backs to look too tall. I know that some people have cut down or removed the seat platform and I may have to do that as well. Any advice/pics would be helpful. Thanks in advance.
