$5000 budget Mustang by Ron S

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Robert Scheitlin just sent me this pic of the stop challenge. Still don't know how these guys get such good pics with the car centered, I always just catch the quarter panel or half the front fender.

9-28-2010

Just bought one of the Kilboy pics from the Tale of the Dragon,I remembered buying one last year. Figured it would show the front end contrast pretty well.

10-4-2010

Have had a bunch of people emailing, asking for pics of different things. I guess it hasn't been posted in 20 or so pages, but here are the build pics from begining to end
http://57hemicuda.smugmug.com/Cars/M.../6357389_pKQdb

http://troyboy468.smugmug.com/galler...02256870_WZAxs

10-6-2010

Its funny, everyone always asks if the car was sectioned, because it looks so short. The car is stock as far as the height goes, but the early Mustangs are quite a bit shorter between the roof skin and the rocker, then a Camaro. If you look at the height of the door,its probably 3 inches shorter then a 69 Camaro door.

This causes head room problems with taller passengers. The roll cage is as high and tight to the roof as possible. When I put the seats in the car, and drove it a bit, I took the drivers seat and laid it back which fixed the head room issues for me. David and Robert both noticed the lack of head room on the passenger side,they were the first to mention it, I guess I will have to lay that seat back as well. Payton drove my Mustang in Tenn., with me in the passenger seat. The seat is way to upright, kind of uncomfortable, never been on that side of the car.

You can the height difference between Payton amd my cars

10-16-2010

I'm not talking about becoming a pleasure cruiser. Just some sound deadening and something on the floor and door panels. The Kirkeys are pretty comfortable along with the ride, but the noise level has your ears ringing after an hour or so.

11-16-2010

Car hasn't been out for a long cruise since RTTH, took it out Saturday for about 150 mile run. While running at 50mph in heavy traffic, I managed to clip a deer. It was hit several times before I got into it, and was strattled by most of the traffic in front of me. My new splitter was not so lucky, it managed to knife off about 3" of meat along the whole body, and throw it into my fans. When I opened the hood, it looked like Nightmare on Elm St., took an hour to hose it all out of there. The new nose and splitter fared pretty well, I guess it was attached alot better then I thought. Ron

12-29-2010

Someone just sent me a couple pics from earlier this year, just had to post this one.

1-9-2011

I don't know if its worth $5000, but I ended up with $9000 in the initial build, and about 23K, after multiple failures. It did turn out alot nicer then I origially invisioned though.

Haven't really touched the car sice RTTH's, so I started finishing up a few things. I'm getting ready to start on a new project, so I figured I better finish this one before I get started on something else. Got the beginings of the bumper bottom/brake ducts started, was able to use my fiberglass mold plug to shape off of (kind of nice not to be laying on my back shaping metal).

1-17-2011

Pulled the car out of the garage to clean up. I was on level ground, and was seriously stuck. I guess 335 KDW's were not designed for the snow.

1-21-2011

The new transmission just came in for the car. Never driven one of these clutchless transmissions before, but I can't wait to bang some gears. I think I'll miss the overdrive though.

1-24-2011

Finally got the door panels made and on, super plush as usual. I was going to roll some beads in them, but if I one day want to put real interior in it, it would be harder for the interior guy. I'll try and get the new hubs in this weekend, and hope it cures my knockback issues, if not this may get a full floater in it.