Background

I am starting this blog as a way to document my progress on the restoration of my 1967 Mustang GT Convertible.  I have had this car for over 13 years and I am finally to a point where I am going to begin the restoration again.  I say "again" because I had started tearing it down when I first bought it in 1999, but soon after that I got married and dedicated most of my time and money to going to school.  After school my wife and I started having kids and the Mustang took a back seat to life.

I have a few distinct memories of this car so I thought I would write them down here on my blog as a way of preserving them.

The first of these memories comes from the day I picked up the car.  In the summer of 1999 my father and I drove up to one of his Mustang friends house (he had a lot of them....in fact I'm pretty sure one of them went by the name of Mustang Larry.  however I think this one belonged to his friend Porter) and bought a 1967 Mustang GT Convertible for $2,000.   We put it on a front end car trailer that only pulled the front two wheels off the ground.

I remember that the trip went flawlessly and the car road very well on this trailer all the way into my parents driveway.  My father had pulled the truck in a little to far and decided to back the truck and trailer up.  As he was doing this the trailer started to kink and the trucks bumper looked like it was going to run into the front fender of the Mustang so I started yelling "whoa, whoa!!".  I thought my father had heard but instead of stopping he just went back even father until I saw the bumper crunch into the Convertible I had just bought.

After he felt the contact my father stopped the truck.  Afterwards I asked if he had heard me and he said he thought I was yelling "Go, Go!!".  In the end the damage wasn't really that bad, but it was a bit of a shock seeing any damage to a car I had just bought.

These are the pictures from that day and a few days following it.   I was so excited to jump in and find out what I had gotten that I started taking sheet metal off the next day.

Deluxe interior with an intact center console

289 with a 2 barrel carb (a little weird it's not a 4 barrel)

Not a bad looking stang!  I'm pretty sure I'm not going to keep the luggage rack on it.

Picture with my new project car and my half finished project car in the background.

Some tear down started.  Plus this is the only picture with all three of my mustangs in it at once.

Besides the large rip on one side, the top was in decent shape.