Help with a question on a 69 Mustang coupe

WORTH said:

No man alive can repair a post GBM Inspection

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Never said it could be repaired, just said I hope is insurance covers it, at least that way he might see some $$$ after the GBM finished with it!

StangDreamin' said:

Oh, give me a freakin' break! Reality checks dispensed here:

First of all you'd better go double-coat on that "Happy-GBM" wax job about which Oz was speaking - because, after our famous "Brown Blizzards", there isn't a whole lot of paint left! For the uninformed; Brown Blizzards are just like Easterners' blizzards except instead of that slushy white saltwater-mixture stuff that melts above 32*F, you get honest-to-God sand, like what is used to strip car-body shells! By the way, sand doesn't melt until about 3500*F (around mid-July).
Second, expect to replace all the rubber (window and valve-cover gaskets, etc) - cause it dries out here in areas where the average rainfall is 0.01" !
On the plus side; whattheheck is this "cowl-rot" stuff you guys keep talking about?



Still Dreamin'

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Sorry, I'm fresh out of Kit Kats. As for reality checks, you were speaking like I know where you live. Assuming it's as described in your location, I had a very disturbing image of what a brown blizzard might have really been. Regardless, I'll take that harsh sun, sand and dried-out rubber over fixing rust any ole day of the week. An eastern born car could survive far longer driven every day in the west then a western born car could every day in the east, that is a reality that can't be denied and that was my point. West coast woes can be treated far easier than the east coast ones. If our cars had the original rubber or paint it would be just as bad, but you'll almost never rust. That's like comparing a booboo to cancer.

Pakrat said:

That's like comparing a booboo to cancer.

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Hmmmmmmmm.......................

Just be sure to go thru everything before you cruise too much. I understand your excitement, believe me butunless you know for sure it was just compitently inspected, you don't want to suddenly sufferfrom brake failure or begin your dollar investment with a tow home. You should plan on freshening all the fluids and giving it a full tune up and run through before you put too many miles on it. Pre-maintanence is the best habit you can get into to maintian a reliable ride.

69 capecod, where about do you live? i'm from wareham

Pakrat said:

Sorry, I'm fresh out of Kit Kats. As for reality checks, you were speaking like I know where you live. Assuming it's as described in your location, I had a very disturbing image of what a brown blizzard might have really been. Regardless, I'll take that harsh sun, sand and dried-out rubber over fixing rust any ole day of the week. An eastern born car could survive far longer driven every day in the west then a western born car could every day in the east, that is a reality that can't be denied and that was my point. West coast woes can be treated far easier than the east coast ones. If our cars had the original rubber or paint it would be just as bad, but you'll almost never rust. That's like comparing a booboo to cancer.

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Awww, c'mon Pak; you didn't know where I live - even after my offering to take the winner of Hop's infamous thumb-wrestling contest out into the Sonora Desert to see how tough that winner really was? When I'm not doing laps in the Jacuzzi (dodging blue hair-balls that 65stanger has hacked up), I live deep in the southwestern corner of AZ. We have the widest beach in the world - so large, in fact, that two California counties and the entire city of San Diego fit between the start of our beach and the Pacific Ocean. And yes, it's 98.7% sand - the stuff that people with little money and less brains use to remove paint from metal before they lay down a skim coat of Bondo or resin in order to get a reasonably smooth surface! When the wind blows hard enough to pick up the sand; you get a brown blizzard!

As far as the effects of our relative climates on classic cars; I refer you to the last line of my previous post:

StangDreamin' said:

...whattheheck is this "cowl-rot" stuff you guys keep talking about?

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EDIT: Slipping a little off-topic here.... I did not realize that not all 69's came with the side scoops below the rear quarter-windows. Bummer; I always thought those scoops were the best feature of that bodystyle.

StangDreamin' said:

........I live deep in the southwestern corner of AZ. We have the widest beach in the world - so large, in fact, that two California counties and the entire city of San Diego fit between the start of our beach and the Pacific Ocean..........

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Ummmmm.........your "beach" doesn't really count, because it doesn't directly abut the Pacific Ocean, you've got those two little CA counties and a sandy eggo in the way.................

65stanger said:

Ummmmm.........your "beach" doesn't really count, because it doesn't directly abut the Pacific Ocean, you've got those two little CA counties and a sandy eggo in the way.................

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:damnit: Freakin' Czechslofornia sticks it to the Grand Canyon State again!

69 Capecod said:

I bought a 69 coupe and want to find out what belongs on the car and what don't.
This 69 coupe has a hood scoop and i havnt been able to find another pitchure of one with it. Could this just be a late model 69?
I found a Haynes that has a 70 with a hood scoop.

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My car came with the scoop, it was part of the "Sports Appearance Group" package. Mine had no tape stripe and their were 20,183 with the package and no tape option. Maybe someone could give us a figure on the "with tape" option. But like many others have stated i recommend you get a marti report from www.martiauto.com

A Total 299,824 produced in 1969. More info here: http://www.1969stang.com/prodnumbers.html

StangDreamin' said:

EDIT: Slipping a little off-topic here.... I did not realize that not all 69's came with the side scoops below the rear quarter-windows. Bummer; I always thought those scoops were the best feature of that bodystyle.

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You're right, I should of recalled the thumb war days, lol.

As for the scoops, yeah, sad but true. : Only the Sportsroof (fastback) except the boss 302 model has it. I don't know what that reversed facing what the hell was Ford thinking scoop they stuck on the coupes and verts was all about at all. Obviously it was the first year to make the leap to chase current trends by eliminating and inverting the side sculpture so reconizable as Mustang, but I see no logic to facing the scoop backwards except that maybe they saw the 69' Camaro design and felt they needed it. Shelby had a better solution for the vert which I plan to add at my next repaint. By 70' they deleted them all anyway for a more performance image (like the Boss I assume), but the 69' fastback scoop is arguably one of the coolest ever and yet, it's all alone in the crowd as a one of item. Go figure.

Here's a quickie photo chop I did years ago just to see what it would have looked like. Unfortunately though I have been told that this would be impossible to do on a vert.