What year Stang is this???

is that a kit? its not a terrible job... look up by the windsheild it blends pretty well, but i admit the stock mustang line could have been carried all the way back.

That thing reminds me of the old Johnny Cash song.............................."its a 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, automobile".....................

Damn, now I will be humming that song all day long.

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Dave

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Yeah, that's definitely a 68' Mustang frontend on a Maverick body. We talked about it on the Maverick Forum.

I think it's bada$$.

It also looks like Mel Gibson's car from Mad Max.

That car is cool.

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If you could get rid of the upper Mustang body line, I think it'd be kick butt. I'm amazed at how well the door and fender line up.

Something else sorta cool, but within the same family, I saw a '67 Falcon with a '67 Fairlane front end on it earlier this year in Florida. Even cooler, it had a 428 FE in it. Bolted right on and all the body lines line right up. It appears that the '67 Falcon got the Fairlane front clip underpinnings. It was dirty and the paint was old and it was the coolest thing I saw at the track.

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damn Dave what the hell happened? and are you ok?

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Oh, I'm fine. It was a friend's car, not mine.
He wrecked it twice, then sold it to a young enlisted Navy guy and he promptly wrapped it around a palm tree.
3rd time was the charm for this car.

It had a killer little solid roller cam 347/T5 that was apparently too much for the street.

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scared me for a minute there, i though that was your little mav.

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Nickel, that 69 Stang GT is looking gorgeous!
I see you are selling. I wish I had the dough for that.
I believe that the 69 GT Coupe is the only Stang coupe I have ever longed for.
Any other coupe just doesn't do it for me. I am a fastback guy.

Back in the early 90s, there was a 69 GT coupe that I worked on for the elderly owner.
I tried so hard to get him to sell me that car. He just wouldn't let it go.
I think the only time he drove the car was when he serviced it.

It was gold with a white top and white interior. 351w 4v power.
FMX and 9" rear if I recall... Beautiful car.

Good luck
Dave

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thanks Dave, 'preciate it. that's my baby, he was my first car and i've had him since 1984......damn i feel old. we're looking to buy a house of our own and being disabled now we don't have a lot of income nor do we have any way to come up with a down payment other than selling the GT. but i rationalize it as i'm giving up my first car for my house so i guess it'll be an alright deal, plus i have my 64,000 mile 69 cougar project to play with once the stang sells too so at least i'll still have a cool old hot rod to keep me sane. i'll also have a much bigger budget to start with on the cougar than i ever had with the stang. i started the resto on the stang over 10 years ago and just got it totally finished this summer. i anticipate that the resto on the cougar will go much, much quicker since overall it's a nicer car than what i started with in 1984 and way better than when the GT was at it's lowest point since i've owned when i started the resto. everything was wrong with that car when i started the resto, blown engine, bad transmission, numerous dents and dings and minor rust problems, the wiring was in bad shape and the interior was pretty sad too. i'd been pretty hard on the car up until that point because it was my only car for most of the first 15 years i owned it and a lot of that time i delivered pizzas in it......


i've always thought the 69 GT was a pretty special car myself. it was the last mustang to carry the GT name until ford brought it back in 82, it was the only year to have 4 round headlights, it was the last year for the 390 and the first year for the 351 and most 69 GT's came eguipped with factory functional-capable ram air. the hole in the hood in my car is factory original and all early GT's came with the same hood. ford had apparently planned to make ram air standard on the GT, at least the 351-4v and up anyway (i've seen a few early GT's that didn't have this hood and all were 351-2v cars) but for whetever reason ford cancelled the ram air on them, probably because of the shaker option is my guess. so that hood in itself makes the GT's special cars but there were so many firsts and lasts for the 69 and especially the GT i couldn't name one reason why they are and always will be my favorite mustangs

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That's sad...
Very interesting car. Like was said before, the lines weren't too bad.
I would have looked it over and taken quite a few pics if it were at a show!