Project 67 Super Coupe

[tarafied1]

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since putting it back together after paint, I've tried to drive whenever possible. As you can imagine, there has been a few incidents or bugs to work out. Here are a few in no particular order.

Driving from Barber to Homewood during the Mustang 45th, I lost a couple bolts from the left brake dust sheild. The sheild rubbed against the rotor and made a horrible grinding noise. I couldn't fix it on the side of the road so we continued to Homewood. I didn't have a lot of tools with me to pull the caliper and rotor so I billy rigged it with a cable tie.
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When I got it home I fixed it right.
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one day after picking up my son from school, my lard butt must have been too much for the 40 year old seats and it broke going up my street.
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I was decided I would have to weld it back together, but I had a set of seats from a parts car laying around. I thought maybe it would be better to swap the seat cover. When I stripped it down I found that it had been repaired. Appearantly Ford had a fix for this problem. A seat repair pin D7ZZ-69618-C47A. I just had to drill a hole and use the self tapping screw.
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at one point I even broke some of the rear studs on the right rear.
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I also cracked the rotor in the process.
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In this photo you can see a hole in the caliper bracket, I had to drill this in order to get the new studs in. I could have had the bearing pressed off, replaced the studs and then have it pressed back on but I didn't want to do all that. So I put the axle in my drill press and started drilling. The drill went pretty far thru but then chipped. I reground it and began again, and it chipped again. Then I used a $40 step drill which proceeded to snap off. I had to finish it with a dremmel. What a PIA!
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I also had this nagging intermitten blinking of the brake lights. I burned up the original turn signal switch before I figured it out. I had a 68 parts car that a new NOS switch. I used the TS switch from it to replace my fried original. The plug ends are different 67 to 68, but everything else was the same.
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I added relays to the headlights thinking that the halogen bulbs were overloading the headlight switch.
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I changed the dimmer switch and headlight switch, still had the problem.
It turned out that the added bulbs for the Cougar tail lights were the source of my problem. I added relays to the brake/TS lights and problem was solved.
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The best thing though is that we did the HRPT this year and drove over 3,000 miles and 8 states in grueling heat with no issues. The car was great, we had no AC so we overheated but the car never did!

[tarafied1]

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Last year I attended the Good Guys show at Beach Bend Raceway Park. They have a famous dragstrip, circle track, amuesment park and campground! What could be better? I borrowed my dad's F250 and camper (which I now own) for the weekend.
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I had just sold my old Tubular Automotive headers so I had a little spending money for the Stang. I wanted a cold air intake but with the low profile Eleanor hood and the big 385 series Big Block I didn't think I had room for anything. I had seen the Spectre trailer at the Good Guys show in Nashville back in July 09 but didn't have the funds for anything. The Spectre crew had a vendor area set-up again at Beach bend with their rig and I stopped to talk with them. They said I could take some stuff to see if it would fit or bring the car over to their site. I brought it over and they went to work.
Option #1 - low profile air box & flex hose ~$150
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Option # 2 - they temporarily hooked up some various bends and straight peices to mock up the tube that will be welded and polished ~ $350
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The final product will be all welded and polished, they were great and spent a lot of time trying differnt things. I was impressed with the way they were willing to help!
They are the ones who got us pumped up about going on the Power Tour this year also.

[tarafied1]

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During the winter I decided to start working on a miniature version of my car using these two doners.
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cut the FB roof off, then cut up the Cali Special. Lots of grinding and test fitting to go but it's a start.





It's not done yet but I've been too busy to work on it.

[mike343sharpstick]

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Man this is cool; I admire your persistence on this thing.
I got my car on the road in 3 years because I know if it sat too long I would loose interest.

I think the elanore touches on the coupe body work very well together.
Sounds like you drive it a bunch too, that's what it's all about.

If you are looking into further handling improvments I would recomend you look into the Maier racing panhard bar. I cut one up and put it on my AMC Javelin and changes the turn-in feel and cornering behaviour. I was able to use half the kit, but had to chop up and refab the rest. That was worth the effort, man would it be worth it more if I could have just installed it as-is ;D

[tarafied1]

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thanks for the compliment and advise. I will look into that. I don't race the car but I do drive it a lot as you noted. I did take it to an opentrack event and ran 3 laps. It needs better brakes and BIGGER tires but it was fun. It has taken a long time to get to this point but it has been worth it. I did lose interest a few times and thought of selling or trading it. Life gets in the way but when my wife and kids took interest too it got back on track. I'm great full my wife never complained about all the parts cars and car parts in the house, garage, etc. We all enjoy taking it on trip and just to the local Sonic or DQ!

[mike343sharpstick]

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We all enjoy taking it on trip and just to the local Sonic or DQ!

Little outings like that are great. Just yesterday the wife and I put the two kids in our Javelin and took it to a local beach, a day with some old iron is makes whatever your doin' even better, even if it's just a trip for a burger ;D
The way I see it, pony cars have back seats so someone may as well sit back there on occasion, they are a little small but fit kids just fine ;)

I've noticed that small upgrades like your cold air kit are real fun to do once the heavy lifting of a rebuild is done. I just did a very similar cold air kit on my car using the Spectre components too. Nice stuff.

[tarafied1]

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We all enjoy taking it on trip and just to the local Sonic or DQ!

Little outings like that are great. Just yesterday the wife and I put the two kids in our Javelin and took it to a local beach, a day with some old iron is makes whatever your doin' even better, even if it's just a trip for a burger ;D
The way I see it, pony cars have back seats so someone may as well sit back there on occasion, they are a little small but fit kids just fine ;)

I've noticed that small upgrades like your cold air kit are real fun to do once the heavy lifting of a rebuild is done. I just did a very similar cold air kit on my car using the Spectre components too. Nice stuff.

well said! I agree. My boys are getting almost too big now to fit but they still enjoy the ride.
I like tinkering, with all the major surgery out of the way, projects like a panhard bar and cold air are fun weekend jobs. I do like the Spectre stuff and the people were great!

[tarafied1]

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while on our way to the HRPT starting point in Newton, we spent the night in St Louis. I had to stop by the Arch and see BigFoot...

[tarafied1]

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One really cool thing about the HRPT was we were contacted by Pioneer before the tour. They said we were selected from the long haulers as a potential car to receive a new system. Just before we left, we were notified we had been picked and they installed a system in our car at the Bowling green stop.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWqFREj0qJg

[JOES66FURY]

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killer story man, great looking car!

[milner351]

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Totally awesome - great that you've stuck with the same car all this time and have continued toward your goal of getting it just so.

Great looking car!

[Blazerteam]

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Im diggin your use of a hardtop as a project,and also that you have made almost a new one ;D.And tripple diggin that you have had it for so long,and not parted ways.

Those old headers looked like they would hit the asphalt,and everything else under a car..they sure looked cool,but must have been a paint to install..

Oh,i have always liked the shelby coupe too..its still around,i seem to recall.

[tarafied1]

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thanks guys. I have had it 20 years or so now. I wish I could say it was my first car like some of you but it's not. I bought a 67 Hardtop when I was 15. My mom was upset and wouldn't let me bring it home because it was rough looking. My sister's boyfriend lived in the country and he let me bring there and keep it in the barn. He helped me do bodywork and he even painted it for me (in my parent's garage). My mom was proud I stuck with it and fixed it up and she liked it when it was done. My dad helped me a lot too.




I had this 67 for almost 10 years. I learned a lot on this car and built my first high performance engine, rebuilt my first trans, etc.
There was a guy I worked with who had a 67 (the one I have now) and e wanted me to fix it up. I told him I didn't have time as my wife was expecting and I worked a lot of hours. I wanted to buy a house and he wanted a restored Mustang. We agreed to trade and he threw in enough money so I could have a down payment on my 1st house. He didn't want a hot rod so I pulled my drive-train out and put his stock stuff in my old Stang. I sold the hopped-up small block engine and trans to buy the headers and motor mounts to put in the 460 that I had from a T-Bird under my workbench. While my current Stang is not my first car it is a continuation of it... there are even a few parts from my first one on the current one.

Those headers were a PITA to install but they only were a problem dragging after I lowered the front-end and put on the smaller tires. I think I paid $375 for them new in the 90's and sold them for $150 I think, almost 20 years later!

[mustang13]

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Very cool car dude. I love the mix of Shelby and Eleanor parts you used on 67-68. I know your pain with the seat hardware breakage, suffered some of that on the 70 I had over 20 years.

[tarafied1]

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yeah, that was embarrassing!

love your pace car race car!