Picked Up This 79 Mustang-need Advice

Yes. 61R = Mustang 3-door Fastback

OK. So I joined foureyedpride and someone knew right away the real story behind this car. This was his reply. Nice to know the real story. Hate to tell the previous owner the real story.

""Well, you were fed quite a line on the car you just bought, allow me to take some of the sting out by at least telling you it is a "AHA" Mustang convertible conversion. The nose and the seats were added after the fact and are not original to the car (a VIN tag on the inside of the nose cap/front bumper should confirm this). There were roughly 230 of these produced over the course of two years (1979-1980), and they were never(N-E-V-E-R) built for, or at the Indy race.....The actual cars/trucks at Indy were sold via lottery to the Ford dealer network, who then resold them as new/used cars. The Tomaso did not even have a car display at the 1979 Indy race, let alone provide 100 cars to the event to shuttle people around. I believe your seller got confused about the "Festival Cars" (Mustangs, LTDs, and a few F150 pick ups) and rolled that into the story/myth he or she was attempting to spin.....



Now that the basics are out, tell us a little more about your new acquisition

Have you run a Marti Report yet?


Bill S.""

This is the story on how I got the car....

Bill, thanks for the history on these cars. I searched the internet for hours and came up with nothing. But I was putting Indy in the search which is why nothing was popping up. Did find a pic of another one just like this, but no info.
This is all I know about the car. I was dropping my tractor off at my bosses old farm house last summer so he could york rake some loam he just had spread. After I unloaded he said come check out this car I have in the barn. It was covered with an old tarp and his Daughter and husband who were living at the farm house had piled boxes on top of the car to keep them off the concrete floor. He told this story about the car. Said he bought it in the early 90's and it needed some bodywork. He took it to a local bodyshop. The owner was a friend of his and also had quite a car collection, about 75+/-. The bodyshop owner researched the the history and he is the one that "uncovered " the history of the car. Since my boss thought it was rare he ended up spending over 17k on the bodywork. My boss is not stupid, just a little to trusting when a friend tells him something. Anyway he drove the car summers until he parked it in the barn in 2000.

I told my boss it was a shame to let the car sit like this, he knew what I was leading up to, even thou I couldn't even see the car or condition. He said he was donating it to a school autobody shop and they were picking it up before school starts. I said I was glad it was going to a new home.

Fast forward to last Wednesday. As I was walking by my bosses office he yells at me " hey get in here", so I go in and ask what's up his reply is "I'm giving you that car", my reply was "what car?" LOL- short term memory. He said none of his kids want it, they won't take care of it and he is selling the farmhouse. We went over and looked at it Friday morning. He told me on the way over that is was a fiberglass body and the first two built had a tin trunk lid, the rest had a fiberglass lid. When we uncovered the car I tapped on the panels, all steel, so I knew at that point the story he was given may not have been entirely accurate. I'm a old school Charger guy at heart. But always liked the mustangs. So I was more than happy to give the Mustang a new home. My wife and I went over Friday night, loaded up the car and bought it home.

Now that I know the the real history behind this car it should be easier for me to do additional research. Thanks for you help with this

Found a data tag screwed to the front of the radiator support. Now I need to decode all this.

madmike1157 said:

He's not a spokesman for spell check either.

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No worries. I new what he meant