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Mail From: yeboabe (Abraham Meyer)

Hi, i am new to the list and have just bought a '67 Mustang
Coupe.

The car is in need of a spray job (but can wait), the
electrics are very bad, (so will start here i think), the
brakes are non exsisting at the moment, the suspension will
also need some work and the engine i think is still fine,
as it did start when i went to see the car the first time,
(with very little smoke, for a car that has been standing
for a long time!).

I have been reading some of the posts on the list in the
archive, but the big problem for me is that i live in South
Africa (does anybody on this list have any contact details
for someone in SA that has done any work on '60-'70
mustangs, that i can give a call?? )

Another question what good books can you recommend for me
to have and read, and any good websites with info will help
thanks.

O, and the car is a '67 Coupe white, with a V8 and a manual
4 speed transmission.

Thanks
Abe

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Mail From: lrobaldo (Lance)

Abe,

First and foremost.

WELCOME to our forum. It's a little slow right now, but that's mostly
because many of our members are in winter storage... Wait till it warms up
a bit and this forum will be quite busy.

As far as where to start? It all depends...

Are you planning on driving this car while you fix it up?

If so, I'd start with the brakes first (who cares if it can go if it can't
stop), then the wiring, the suspension, body, paint, and finish up with the
interior.


If you're NOT going to drive it, and you want to fix it up as more of a show
car, then the order changes a bit:

First, I'd strip EVERYTHING out of it.
Wiring, upholstery, engine, suspension, bumpers, glass..... The works. You
want to get it down to a basic shell.

Then I'd do things in the following order...

Have it media blasted inside and out and do whatever body repairs are
needed. Don't forget to media blast underneath too.

After the body work, Paint and undercoat now, before the rest of the work.

Replace or rebuild the suspension.

Replace or rebuild the Brakes.

Get one of those pre-made wiring harnesses and Re-wire the chassis.

Replace the Engine. (which was hopefully being re-built while the body work
was going on.)

Finally, finish up with a fresh interior.

Don't forget all the little details, new fuel lines, new chrome dash bezels,
exterior emblems, Windshield chrome, new bumpers, new door handles, rubber
weather stripping, beltline felt, etc... The list goes on and on...

Sounds simple doesn't it....

Figure at best several months to do all that. Taking longer than a YEAR to
do all that is commonplace...


Good luck. If you have any specific questions, throw them to the forum.
There's almost nothing that at least one of us hasn't tackled.

Sorry, I can't help you with any shops in South Africa... I live in Florida.

Lance.

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Mail From: abesfate (Abraham Miller)

Hi Abe!

As it would turn out - my name is Abe as well. Abe Miller... Meyer - Miller - all pretty much the same huh?

In any case, I too am seriously starting on my first Mustang restore. I have a 66 coupe and I'm more than a little excited. Heh... I actually bought my own ride in Seattle via eBay. I flew one-way from Chicago and after just 3-hours of quick repairs I drove her all the way home!

Before I left on the trip home I had fixed everything the prior owner said was wrong with it. The wipers were just confused knobs, the transmission leak was a bad o-ring on the dipstick, and the seats just needed to be bolted down.

But it only took the first 100 miles to bring out the last beast of a problem any poor guy driving in the Oregon trail would ever want to experience... a bad tie rod end and a bump steer issue that would leave me and my sister screaming for I lives more than once.

P.S. If there was only ONE pothole the size of a truck tire on the entire length of highway between Salt Lake City and Chicago, IL... we found it 50 miles west of Cheyenne Wyoming. Dang thing just happened to be at the top of an overpass and the bumpsteer threw us three feet towards the edge...

I must love Mustangs.

In any case, there are great books available through many of the parts catalogs you'll be using so I'd start there. I've been reading them for years even without a victim to try it all on!

Good luck! I've never posted here, but true enough, the crowd here knows their stuff!

(BTW - Hi all! Thanks for the good info so far!)


Abe Miller
Elgin, IL


Abraham Miller

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