My Project: '66 coupe restoration (pic heavy)

[Baba Ganoush]

Thread Revival.


Well We've got about 2500 miles on the build, and lots of adjustments/tweeks have been made. I realized I hadn't put any final pictures up. After looking at these pictures, I'm really needing to paint that pinch weld (as suggested here) under the rocker panels, its sticking out I guess, I painted the ones on the quarters. I just had to notice before I did anything. Although it seems a project like this is never finished, it's ready for the car show season.

[Z06killinsbf]

Nice, I need some new photos of mine now!

[Baba Ganoush]

Yeah, those are just some quick shots I took while out driving it the past few weeks. I need to spend a whole day downtown, lots of cool environments, I need to get to know my camera as well.

[Whiteboy]

Very nice.

[ma67cpe]

looks great finished. You did a great job.

[black2002ls]

Looks great. Gives me the itch to start looking for a project again....

[01vnms4v]

still looking good

[Swamp Donkey]

Beautiful car and great job! I probably overlooked this, but was your car an auto to begin with? If so, how difficult/costly is it to convert it to a manual? I just picked up and 66 coupe and mine has the Cruise-O-Matic C4 which makes highway cruising no bueno.

Edit: Just noticed it was a manual. Any help would be appreciated, though!

[01yz2nv]

Very nice, love the colors!

[CJ]

Beautiful car and great job! I probably overlooked this, but was your car an auto to begin with? If so, how difficult/costly is it to convert it to a manual? I just picked up and 66 coupe and mine has the Cruise-O-Matic C4 which makes highway cruising no bueno.

Edit: Just noticed it was a manual. Any help would be appreciated, though!

You just need a manual quadrant and a sawzall, not very difficult at all really.

[Baba Ganoush]

Thanks for the kind words!



It made it to three shows so far and walked with two awards, both first place in pre-'79 mustangs. It was quite the experience seeing people crawling all over it, and then seeing how it compared to others. I couldn't be happier.

Beautiful car and great job! I probably overlooked this, but was your car an auto to begin with? If so, how difficult/costly is it to convert it to a manual? I just picked up and 66 coupe and mine has the Cruise-O-Matic C4 which makes highway cruising no bueno.

Edit: Just noticed it was a manual. Any help would be appreciated, though!

Yeah it was a 3 speed. We ditched the Z-bar and updated everything; cable, quadrant, pedal bushings. Check out Modern Driveline. We got everything but the T-5 from them, great guys. They also pointed us to FPA for our headers which are probably my favorite decision on the engine. Perfect fit and really flow nice. I forgot to take some pictures of them before the install, doh!!

I'm going to post up in this thread the next time I'm out in it, probably towards the end of September. Every time I'm out I forget to holla at the classic guys. I've already driven this thing on several 450 mile trips. We'll cross paths eventually.

[Swamp Donkey]

You just need a manual quadrant and a sawzall, not very difficult at all really.

How difficult to install? I've done one, but on a Fox.

Thanks for the kind words!

Yeah it was a 3 speed. We ditched the Z-bar and updated everything; cable, quadrant, pedal bushings. Check out Modern Driveline. We got everything but the T-5 from them, great guys. They also pointed us to FPA for our headers which are probably my favorite decision on the engine. Perfect fit and really flow nice. I forgot to take some pictures of them before the install, doh!!

Thanks for the info. I'm pricing a kit out right now. Keep the pics coming!

[Z06killinsbf]

It must be a steel quadrant so you can weld it.

http://www.mustangsteve.com/cable.html

[Baba Ganoush]

We'll be in the central park show in Garland tomorrow, and Good Guys at TMS Oct. 5.

[Baron Von Crowder]

I used the cable conversion that FM sells, it bolts right together and looks and works great.