Ever make up a project around a single part? Well, I've dreamed a lot of projects around a single rusty beat-up vintage speed part.
Over the last 17+ years I have been slowly collecting pieces for a mythical Trans Am car I keep telling myself I'm gonna build. Over time a Hust Shifter, Top Loader 4 speed, early front timing cover, dual point ignition, Monte Carlo bar, Lakewood scatter shield, early steel sheet metal valve covers (without PCV holes), radio and heater delete plates, 15x8 TT wheels, and a host of other stuff I don't need have found their way into my garage.
And here I go again....
Two weekends ago while I was at Knott's Fab Ford Show, I bumped into a dude who had a nice looking white '67 Mustang Coupe with a good Trans Am vibe going from 20 feet away. Then I got up to the engine, and saw he had a dual quad set-up. Further inspection reveled it was an early Trans Am piece with correct carbs (!), so I struck up a conversation. One thing led to another and he told me he had another, but it was "Shelby" lettered and had been milled/run hard. I asked if he'd sell and he said "sure". So of course I had to have it. It just arrived:
Signed, "Can't Say No" in Vegas.
Over the last 17+ years I have been slowly collecting pieces for a mythical Trans Am car I keep telling myself I'm gonna build. Over time a Hust Shifter, Top Loader 4 speed, early front timing cover, dual point ignition, Monte Carlo bar, Lakewood scatter shield, early steel sheet metal valve covers (without PCV holes), radio and heater delete plates, 15x8 TT wheels, and a host of other stuff I don't need have found their way into my garage.
And here I go again....
Two weekends ago while I was at Knott's Fab Ford Show, I bumped into a dude who had a nice looking white '67 Mustang Coupe with a good Trans Am vibe going from 20 feet away. Then I got up to the engine, and saw he had a dual quad set-up. Further inspection reveled it was an early Trans Am piece with correct carbs (!), so I struck up a conversation. One thing led to another and he told me he had another, but it was "Shelby" lettered and had been milled/run hard. I asked if he'd sell and he said "sure". So of course I had to have it. It just arrived:
Signed, "Can't Say No" in Vegas.
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