The Hard Way Home...

I have one regret with this car, I didn't do a very good job in taking photos throughout this mornings activities so I will retell them instead. I went to pick the car up from the business who stores them, and was surprised to find no battery was installed and an almost completely rusted out left hand inner fender apron. Once I acquired a battery from Repco I then struggled to get it firing and realised there was limited fuel being supplied. After a good 40 minutes of playing around, one of the workers at the storage facility mentioned they more often then not drain the tanks before transportation....sure enough no fuel (what a novice mistake). Filled her up and still nothing. Lots of playing around with the leaking carby and another 40 minutes later I was about to give up and orgnise to tow it, when it decided to fire and run almost perfect.

So dramas of its first start in Perth aside it was an interesting drive home. God and possibly the importer I used knows the last time those brakes actually worked properly. Lets just say it was like stopping a ship. Titanic and icebergs come to mind, luckily no icebergs on the way home. Poor quality jokes aside, it was a real pleasure to be driving my Mustang on the open Perth roads. Lots of looks were received and it may have been due to several factors including the Californian plates, rope holding the boot down or at idle it was rocking side to side as if it was equipped with a large lumpy camshaft (this was not the case unfortunately and was more then likely due to it running rough as all hell).

Not many people are lucky enough to obtain the genuine owners manual of their car from this era. I was lucky enough to find this sitting on the dash and now know the name of rental company who first purchased the car from Ford on February 24th 1967.




I found a document in the car addressed to the previous owner, something about owing $25 to the toll booth.

To save the tyres in one of my previous posts I mentioned picking up some rims and tyres from a Ford forum member that would suit my car. Removed the rear wheels which are exposed to the sun constantly and these are what the car had on her. Personally I like them alot and the tyres are basically new!


The engine is a little more tired then I had anticipated. This however is fine as I have plans to rebuild either the 289 or work with the 302 block I picked up a while back.

The body although looked fine in images also isn't that great and this won't be an issue. lots of spots where you can physically see bog/filler has been used to fix certain areas.



Where to begin with the interior. It is a mess and not much will be honestly salvaged most of it will either be stored for spares or given to other forum memebers in all honesty.







So although customs failed the vehicle only to be reinspected and slug me another $400, I managed to get covered in alot of sand and this fell out of the front valance as i took it off. Not to mention the amount of dust and dirt in the glovebox and what I found in the ashtray...