Yep. Awesome!

I’ll take my Revology Mustang as a 67 Shelby GT 500 with inboard lights, Red with white stripes, black interior, 10 speed auto.  Oh, and I’d also like to be 19 again.

Greg B wrote:

I contacted the guy who does the gauge conversion, as I think this is the very best way to go about it.  He does them using your stock gauge.  My problem is he does not do or have white face.  I have white face overlays on my dash, and I want it to stay that way.  No one makes a white face Voltmeter overlay that fits the stock gauge.  I wish someone did make one off of his  altered Voltmeter face.

I think he can just leave your white face on there. One of his options is to leave it saying AMPS but act like VOLTS.  I almost went that way, but I acquired a stock one to convert, keeping my factory gauge for posterity.

1966 Mustang, Shelby dropped upper arms, modified lower arms with adjustable inner pivot Heim for camber adjustment. Adjustable strut rods. Roller perches moved outboard 1 inch.

I cut part of the coil springs and ride height is where I want it.  The bottom end of an uncut coil spring does not end following the spiral, it goes a little straighter about the last two inches and sits up against the tab on the perch. When that straight bottom end gets cut off the coil, in my case, the coil end now misses the perch tab.  Both sides ended up this way. I’ve cut a few springs for this car over the years and have never noticed this. So…

Is this normal?
Is this OK?
Is the spring going to rotate as I’m bouncing down the road?
Is the spring perch moved outward 1 inch a factor?
Is there anything I can do?
Is there anything I should do? 

I can’t find any img or upload image buttons to attach a pic. 

Thanks in advance.

Unseen evil spirits are the only explanation.

Model year changeover question…I just watched a YouTube video with a new Mustang in it. The video is copyrighted in 1965.  The car is a light blue convertible with a blue interior. The car has all 1966 exterior pieces. Grill, rocker panel moldings, gas cap, reverse lights all standard in 1966.  Here’s the anomaly, it has a 1965 instrument cluster and a 1965 glove box door, a 1965 dash pad yet has a 1966 low profile Rally Pac.  The car has a black California plate indicating it was probably San Jose built. It also had the six “spoke” hub caps with spinners from a ‘65.
Could a 1966 car have escaped the factory with the dash pad, instrument cluster, glove box door and hub caps from a 1965?
My dad’s own early 1965 Mustang had a 64 1/2 hood that was a left over piece but I’ve never seen a 66 with 65 interior dash pieces.

1966 Fastback, Springtime Yellow
January 20, 1966 in San Jose
Sent to DSO 71, Los Angeles.
Recently discovered the car has a 64 1/2 hood, date code 7/7/64 Cleveland plant 3rd shift.  All these years I never noticed the curved lips on the hood front. Most of the front end had been replaced when I bought it on July 27, 1981

Alan wrote:

it also might cause cancer in California

On behalf of normal, non-psycho people in California, I’d like to formally apologize for each and every flippin’ auto related webpage that carries that loser-of-the-century cancer disclaimer.  Sorry, sorry, sorry.

I hacked my dash in the ‘80s. I can put in anything I like.  The damage is done.  I need to replace the Alpine head unit that’s nearly 30 years old now.

Toploader wrote:

You are trying to replicate being a Ford production worker on the Ford assembly line, aren't you 😆

It’s all part of the vintage Mustang owner experience.

Hipoparts.com  has a set of dash lights which are done in a beautiful factory aqua color. These are nice. There is limited dimmability in the two of the three sets available.  I have them.  They are nice.
I tried some other company’s attempt at aqua dash lights and they put yellow and blue LEDs next to each other with no real success.  The colors did not blend very well.  Give the hipo’s a look.

Bearing Bob wrote:

Bullet Bob wrote:

50vert wrote:

Of all the effects of covid on our business and life, the ones I regret most, is having to miss my time playing in the white stuff ... and missing the Bashes.Those pine trees really look like a picket fence at 100 mph.
I remember the year that Seattle had all the grief with the weather.
BBII, in the eastern Sierra, the biggest effect on water supply is the LA aqueduct, LAWP as been stealing the water for nearly a century.
Happy New Year to everyone, I hope everyone has a better 2022 than the last couple.
 

Pretty bad when a visitor from down under knows the history better than the bulk of people who live there.   Yup the Owens Valley, not too many years ago, was home to a lake that was sufficiently large that paddle wheel steam ships ran on it...Owens Lake.  Then William Mulholland  (?) came along.  A lot of people died over that little deal...but not all the right ones. IMO

Barry, good to see your voice my friend.  Believe it or not, I really am going to send that hat.  Here's hoping Leonie, the family and you all had a great Christmas and that we will all have a better 2022 than 2021.  And, we miss you too.

BB1

Barry, I too am impressed with your knowledge of the eastern Sierra Nevada mountains. Mulholland also built the St Francis Dam, which catastrophically failed on March 12, 1928 and killed nearly 500 people including my grandfather. My dad was just 7 when his dad died. My dad never cared too much for anything LA. 

I’ve driven my Mustang and ridden my motorcycle down San Francisquito Canyon a hundred times. I stopped occasionally at the spot where the dam was to ponder the horror of that night. For some reason it has been an interest of mine since I heard about it around 1985.  I think the Eucalyptus trees along Hwy 126 going out to Ventura were planted to remember the lives lost. I’ve never known someone personally connected to that event until now.

$50,500…whew!