I'd just make yourself ah list of things to check out.  When your standing there wheel'in and deal'in and makin small talk with people, somtimes you forget to look for simple stuff.......#1 bring ah gallon of water to poor into the cowl to see how bad, Ah eer,  IF leaks.. #2 bring ah refrigerator magnet to check for bondo.. #3 bring ah quarter to check tire wear.... #4 ,Drive the car ,check to see how much play there is in the steering, make sure it stops, and goes.... #5 make sure the wiring isn't held together with duct tape..Or anything else for that matter... You know the usual stuff

Theres a group of mustang nuts meeting at the waffle house on fri morning near pate.  You know them, they were at the mustang steve party.  Can you bring this car to pate parking lot we could meet you there and tear into this thing,, just kidding I think it's a good car but the STEVE group needs to look it over. 
 Idealy bring it over to Waffle house on 114 fri at 9 am, Steve is buying everyone breakfast and then we can give the "EYEBALL".  

Last edited by Don (4/24/2014 1:07 PM)

John,
I will be at Pate tomorrow as well. Give me a call. For those interested I am getting ride of a lot of '65 parts.
MWM

HenryJ wrote:

Mach1_Ron wrote:

I'm no EXPERT, but I'd be able to go look at it with you tomorrow Afternoon sometime. I'm in Lewisville and get off of work at noonish. MY cell is 4six9-3five8-1seven3five

Let me know... Ron

Ron and William, thanks for the offer. I did go by today kinda last minute I got a phone call from another friend who said he could meet after work and the owner just happened to be home.
So we looked it over really good and there is just NO rust anywhere on this car, even the cowl checked out with 15min. of water running thru it. The underside is very solid with red oxide paint hidden beneath 47yo under coating. The body is very straight and the interior is very nice.

Now for the negative.
The one yr. old paint looks to be a pretty nice driver quality job with a few flaws here and there. It's never been color sanded and it would also need to be cut and buffed again. I'm actually ok with the paint job on this car, because we are going to drive the wheels of this thing. My only concern is I don't want it to deteriorate in a couple of years and have to redo it. I have huge apprehensions about paint work on a car that was fully intended to be flipped. I guess only time will tell.
I'm told the 289 was rebuilt and now has an autolite 4100 (1.12), and the tranny shifts as it should. However, there is a nasty stumble during take off and cruising speeds. Runs real nice when you're on the gas though. The car has power steering and seems to wonder a bit. I've never had a classic mustang with power steering, so I don't know if this is just the way they drive? I do know I don't like it and I'll have to address that issue right away. The brakes need to be bled, but I think the hard parts are in good shape according to the seller.
Over all the car looks fantastic and is an incredible rust free survivor with fresh paint and interior. His asking price is $29,500. I know I can handle all of the mechanical work it will need, but I don't want to get stuck adding a bunch of cash to my purchase price. My biggest concern is the stumble at idle and cruising speeds and mostly the way the car steers down the road. None of the front suspension and steering components are new, but they look to be in good condition.. Maybe a good alignment would correct some of the issues.

I was amazed how much better mine drove with a new center link and idler arm.  Mine is manual steer butt-eye added grease to the steering box(almost a WHOLE tube!) and that helped a lot too.(Thanx again BobC.)  Drives like a new 66!
Morale of the story.......sometimes its the small things that make a big diff!
6sal6

 

John,
This is exciting, good luck on your purchase! Be sure to drive over one weekend so we see each other's car.