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    8/05/2021 1:59 PM  #1

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    1969 German T5 coupe

    I am buying back my old red 69 T5 coupe that I sold years ago!  Picking it up Saturday.  I sure liked that car, even though it was "just a driver" type car.  Probably the best ones to have.

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    8/05/2021 2:11 PM  #2

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    Re: 1969 German T5 coupe


    Welp....so long as you made $$$ on the deal........riiiight!
    You got a BIG 3 car garage to fill up....time to get busy.
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    8/06/2021 9:06 AM  #3

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    Re: 1969 German T5 coupe

    Cool. How'd the buy back come about? Wish I could buy back my first 56 F100.

    Bob. 69 Mach 1, 393W, SMOD Toploader, Armstrong  steering, factory AC.
     

    8/06/2021 1:23 PM  #4

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    Re: 1969 German T5 coupe

    Strange deal on the buy back…

    I sold the car to a guy up in the Dallas area when I lived in Ovilla.   He wound up trading it in and it wound up on a car lot that sold classics, up in Lewisville, Tx. Then the current owner bought it off that lot. (Couple of years pass…)
    One day I was driving along the highway and saw the car at a coin-op car wash.  I was in my 66, and stopped in and met the guy.  We wound up exchanging phone numbers.  This was about six years ago.

    The other day I was cleaning out my phone’s contact list and came across his name.  I texted him and asked if he still had it and if he would be interested in selling it.  He replied, and said his wife would appreciate the room in the garage (anyone ever heard THAT before?) and that he rarely drove it.

    After some negotiation, we agreed on a price. I am driving to Ovilla Saturday to drive the 200 miles back home in it. Turns out the guy lives less than a mile from my former residence.

    Small world!

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    8/06/2021 6:26 PM  #5

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    Re: 1969 German T5 coupe

    Really cool story. Thanks.

    Bob. 69 Mach 1, 393W, SMOD Toploader, Armstrong  steering, factory AC.
     

    8/06/2021 9:18 PM  #6

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    Re: 1969 German T5 coupe

    MS wrote:

    Strange deal on the buy back…

    I sold the car to a guy up in the Dallas area when I lived in Ovilla. He wound up trading it in and it wound up on a car lot that sold classics, up in Lewisville, Tx. Then the current owner bought it off that lot. (Couple of years pass…)
    One day I was driving along the highway and saw the car at a coin-op car wash. I was in my 66, and stopped in and met the guy. We wound up exchanging phone numbers. This was about six years ago.

    The other day I was cleaning out my phone’s contact list and came across his name. I texted him and asked if he still had it and if he would be interested in selling it. He replied, and said his wife would appreciate the room in the garage (anyone ever heard THAT before?) and that he rarely drove it.

    After some negotiation, we agreed on a price. I am driving to Ovilla Saturday to drive the 200 miles back home in it. Turns out the guy lives less than a mile from my former residence.

    Small world!

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    8/07/2021 8:19 PM  #7

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    Re: 1969 German T5 coupe

    Drove the T5 from Ovilla to Canyon Lake today. All interstate. 75 mph cruise all the way. Got 19 mpg.
    The car is now in better shape than when I sold it years ago.
    Before I left, the owner asked me…. You want this 331 I built to go in it?

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    8/07/2021 8:26 PM  #8

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    Re: 1969 German T5 coupe

    MS wrote:

    Drove the T5 from Ovilla to Canyon Lake today. All interstate. 75 mph cruise all the way. Got 19 mpg.
    The car is now in better shape than when I sold it years ago.
    Before I left, the owner asked me…. You want this 331 I built to go in it?

     
    So, don't leave us hanging...did you grab that 331??

     

    8/07/2021 9:09 PM  #9

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    Re: 1969 German T5 coupe

    331?
     

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    8/07/2021 10:49 PM  #10

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    Re: 1969 German T5 coupe

    Curious minds...

    Bob. 69 Mach 1, 393W, SMOD Toploader, Armstrong  steering, factory AC.
     

    8/07/2021 10:54 PM  #11

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    Re: 1969 German T5 coupe

    Slick story!
    ........and the 331??
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    8/08/2021 6:24 AM  #12

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    Pics or it didn't happen! 

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    8/08/2021 6:30 AM  #13

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    Re: 1969 German T5 coupe

    I got the 331 and enough new parts to build it and another engine. Couple of intakes, new Edelbrock water pump. Just a ton of parts.  Luckily Jose drive me up there in his Ram truck.  My garage is piled full of parts.

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    8/08/2021 11:51 AM  #14

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    Re: 1969 German T5 coupe

    Damn you! That sounds like quite the haul Steve. Now for The $64,000 Question, did you get a good deal? Let me guess, he paid you to take it, 

    Bob. 69 Mach 1, 393W, SMOD Toploader, Armstrong  steering, factory AC.
     

    8/08/2021 3:09 PM  #15

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    Re: 1969 German T5 coupe

    Bearing Bob wrote:

    Damn you! That sounds like quite the haul Steve. Now for The $64,000 Question, did you get a good deal? Let me guess, he paid you to take it, 

    Almost

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    8/11/2021 3:24 PM  #16

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    Re: 1969 German T5 coupe

    Cool story and even better with the extra parts.

     

    8/13/2021 3:15 PM  #17

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    Re: 1969 German T5 coupe

    All new stuff
    Edelbrock heads with 1.90 intake
    Used Edelbrock Performer 289 intake
    New Edelbrock Performer RPM intake
    All forged 331 stroker kit
    Freshly bore .030” over 302 1969 block
    Harmonic balancer
    Flywheel
    Block plate
    Edelbrock 650 carb
    Performer cam with lifters
    Two sets double roller timing chains
    Extra fresh 302 crank, rods
    Set of 4.030”, 4.040” and standard pistons/rods
    Extra 1969 heads
    Extra set of moly rings
    Msd billet ready to run distributor ($500 @ Summit)
    Two oil pumps, one hv, one regular
    Oil pump pickup screen
    Timing cover
    Edelbrock water pump
    Hardened push rods
    Comp Cams chromoly roller lifters
    ARP bolts for everything
    1969 oil pan
    Last, but not least, the part I like best… a box full of original engine bolts
    All for $2k

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    8/13/2021 3:22 PM  #18

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    Re: 1969 German T5 coupe

    That's a nice haul!

     

    8/13/2021 5:36 PM  #19

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    Nice haul indeed. Now where to put all that "stuff"?

    Bob. 69 Mach 1, 393W, SMOD Toploader, Armstrong  steering, factory AC.
     

    8/13/2021 7:51 PM  #20

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    Re: 1969 German T5 coupe

    Most of it will wind up under the hood of the 69, as soon as the machine shop gets my roller 5.0 block bored 0.030”. They got hit by covid.  My boat block has been waiting for a month to get bored.

    So, if anybody wants 1969 vintage block fresh 0.030” bore and maybe crank, rods, pistons, performer cam and lifters already in the block, never fired, intake… let me know.
    Also have iron heads.
    Also would like to trade the Edelbrock 650 new carb for Holley or Summit 600.

    Of nobody buys the engine in parts I will build it and sell as a longblock.

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    8/19/2021 6:11 PM  #21

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    Re: 1969 German T5 coupe

    I had a 1967 T-5 fastback that a military guy had.  390 -four speed.  God I ran the hell out of that car.  It sure was fun.  I was young and stupid and sold it.  I didn't know what I had.  I think it still resides in my home town.

     

    8/19/2021 9:01 PM  #22

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    Re: 1969 German T5 coupe

    jreynolds wrote:

    I think it still resides in my home town.

     
    Which is??...........where?!
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    8/19/2021 11:25 PM  #23

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    jreynolds wrote:

    I think it still resides in my home town.

     
    Which is??...........where?!
    6sally6

    Hunt that car down and buy it back.

    Bob. 69 Mach 1, 393W, SMOD Toploader, Armstrong  steering, factory AC.
     

    8/20/2021 10:29 AM  #24

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    Re: 1969 German T5 coupe

    I just bought a Ford original 3x2 intake with Holley carbs for it. So much for my NEAR STOCK ENGINE plans…

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    8/20/2021 11:03 AM  #25

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    I just bought a Ford original 3x2 intake with Holley carbs for it. So much for my NEAR STOCK ENGINE plans…

    The road to Hell is paved with good intentions. Can you say rabbit hole?

    Bob. 69 Mach 1, 393W, SMOD Toploader, Armstrong  steering, factory AC.
     

     

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