68 Mustang Progress

**kmcanally** · 09-08-2005

I think I have made more progress on this car in the last 6 months than I have in the last few years. Last weekend I finally started the engine. I have some leaks to chase down and the used Speed Demon carb I bought leaks like a levee so I will have to rebuild it....but here is a link to a vid I shot the day after I first got it started. I have yet to do any tuning other that what was necessary to get it running.

http://videos.streetfire.net/player....9-8E98EDA54D95

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**bnickel** · 09-08-2005

damn bro sounds pretty good.

**primate** · 09-08-2005

sounds nice.

looks like you have the same rear rim as billy lane's psycho billy cadillac... ;)

**bnickel** · 09-08-2005

man i love that bike.

**DarkBuddha** · 09-08-2005

Sounds damn fine. I'm getting sick with envy...

**CAMAROBOY69** · 09-09-2005

I like that car and it looks better on video than the pics show. Even though you dont have the rear wheels on I still love that view of the car like I said in your other threads.

**kmcanally** · 09-17-2005

I backed it out of the garage under its own power!

**69Nova** · 09-18-2005

Thats the kind of cars the bad guys drive in the movies. It looks so mean and nasty. I love it.

Andrew Petty

**67Sally** · 09-18-2005

Looks really nice.
W.

**CAMAROBOY69** · 09-19-2005

Your car is looking better and better every time I come here. Im glad we talked you into those wheels because they sure look a lot better.

**kmcanally** · 09-19-2005

Originally Posted by CAMAROBOY69

Your car is looking better and better every time I come here. Im glad we talked you into those wheels because they sure look a lot better.

Actually you did talk me into those wheels...When I first started to entertain the notion of the FR500 wheels the only color I considered was silver. Then I started to consider the anthracite before settling on black after soliciting opinions from the guys whos car opinions I trust more than anybody else.

**gbeals** · 09-19-2005

Cars lookin' real good. You did a great thing by getting those 18's on there. The black and green color go great together. I saw your video the other day. Sounds pretty nice. What is your setup? Exhuast wise? Are you cammed as well? What cam did you go with?

**Stangonline.com** · 10-25-2005

Any updates?

I might be picking up my first car from High School (68 coupe). Then I have to decide which one I want to build and which one Im going to build for the wife. I have a 67 fastback too. The one that the wife gets will be pretty plain, so whichever one I want to PT, is going to be mine.... decisions..

Jeff

**kmcanally** · 10-25-2005

Hi Jeff....I got the front wheels back yesterday after having the center cap retaining lip machined out of the center hole. This was interferring with the Baer front bearing hubs. So now I can re-install the front wheels without the 1/2" spacer. This along with a 1/4 poly coil spring spacer should resolve any tire to fender clearance issues. I could have opted for a 1" poly spacer but decided I would rather creap up on the correct ride height a little bit at a time.

Next up is I need to fabricate a 1" spacer for the upper shock mounting bracket to increase the almost non-existent shock travel. I have seen some people run individual spacers for each shock bolt but I am going to fab a spacer for the mounting bracket out of 1" aluminum plate that will also incorporate a means to mount the Monte Carlo with spherical rod ends.

Other than that I have been working on the interior. I have recovered and installed the front seats and am about to start working on the rear seat.

Still waiting on the painter to squirt my 67 Shelby style hood. I am already into this hood for $1500 and it has no paint yet on it.

**kmcanally** · 05-17-2006

I was out at Mohr Restoration yesterday to see some paint finally on my hood...it looks great. He is going to cut and buf it in a couple of days and then I am going to trailer the car over in a couple of weeks to get the rest of the paint buffed. Almost done! And I can't wait...it's been a real long time.

**CAMAROBOY69** · 05-17-2006

Cant wait to see it!!

**Fast68back** · 05-18-2006

Kevin,
I was over at Ron's shop Wed morning and saw your hood, it looked incredible, I'm amazed everytime I go by there. Hopefully he'll be sending mine to the blasters next week to strip the underside and engine bay. I'll have to stop by there in a few weeks while your car is there.

**kmcanally** · 05-19-2006

Originally Posted by PonyCar'68

Kevin,
I was over at Ron's shop Wed morning and saw your hood, it looked incredible, I'm amazed everytime I go by there. Hopefully he'll be sending mine to the blasters next week to strip the underside and engine bay. I'll have to stop by there in a few weeks while your car is there.

Hi Rick...so that is your 68 Highland Green FB? I love that color...are you going back to the same color? I think Ron said something about you building it in the Bullit style...

His new shop is real nice and incredibly clean for one that is primarily a paint and body shop. The black 69/70 fastback is sweet...

After buying and reselling 2 different pos glass versions of this hood I got this original steel hood with a glass scoop "professionally" bonded to it. I bought it on eBay from a guy in Phoenix that said it was "ready for paint". I knew that I was going to have to fill the hood pin holes but it took an additional $1k (20 hours) to get it "ready for paint". In hindsight I would have been better off buying a new stell repro hood and having Ron bond the scoop to it.

**Fast68back** · 05-19-2006

Kevin,
Yeah that was my FB. It will be Highland green. Ron and I are talking about a ghost C stripe. He keeps calling it the Bullitt car. I guess with the color and I told him I was probably going to run 17 or 18" vintage 45's on it and very little Mustang badging it would be close to a bullitt clone, although its not an S code.

That black '69 is really sharp. It was there the first time I went to check out the shop, thanks again for recommending Ron, he is incredible. I'm glad he's not a woman, he can talk me into just about anything.

I was originally thinking of a fiberglass cowl hood, but when I saw your hood and Ron said he could do that to my steel hood that is what I'm doing now. Yours looked great.

**kmcanally** · 05-22-2006

Rick...wise move on modifiying your steel hood. You would not have been happy with the fit of the glass hood...especially considering the amount of dime you are about to drop on the rest of the car.

My hood turned out ok but there are some paint problems that are of no fault of Rons...my car should be out there sometime next week for cut and buff...

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