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You will sure earn your keep on that one Dave.
George Orwell was a Prophet, not a novelist. Read 1984 and then look around you!
Old cat turd!
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I am too old to fight but I can still pull a trigger. ~ Me
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Dave, what color will this one be? Here is the 69 my friend did last summer. Dang that is nice! Candy apple?
The deer hunter does not notice the mountains
"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve" - Isoroku Yamamoto
There sure are a lot of America haters that want to live here...
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To me, that is the quintessential Mustang look!
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Dave, what color will this one be? Here is the 69 my friend did last summer. Dang that is nice! Candy apple? Yep, Candy Apple, he dropped a 428 in it as well.
"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence". John Adams
"A dishonest man can always be trusted to be dishonest". Captain Jack Sparrow
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I just Googled '69 M Code and saw Cleveland so figured it was?.
Sounds like it could get fun!
IIRC the 351C was first produced in 1970. So it wouldn't be correct for the 69 unless it was a very late production and Ford dropped some into them which wouldn't surprise me in the least.
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we'll take careof it, all be cleaned up when you get back. i might go tomorrow as well so i guess, i'll have to work all night.
It is a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait!
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Could you get ABS on a Mustang back then? Pretty Palomino and a great set of sliding plates.
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time. --Pat Parelli
American by birth; Alaskan by choice. --ironbender
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Dave, There's a lot of metal being scrapped off that car and renewed (in the truest sense of the word).
Coupla' questions:
A.) What do you pick as your control point / "survey Stake" from which to square everything up on the diagonal, for correct height, parallelism, and other alignment mojos critical to handling and tracking ?
B.) Do you measure optically as well as with measuring devices ?
Cheers, and thanks for another interesting thread aborning !
GTC
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to bad it doesnt have the high nickel 69 351w block in it. My buddy still has a stock block 69 with TFS highports done by ronnie sharp (rousch racing cylinder head/cam guy) that i i had splayed 4bolt caps put on, and bored/stroked to 425CI. Its a n20 motor. ran 9.80 on motor, and 8.30s on nitrous, for 4 years... they are by far the strongest o the 5.0-5.8 windsor blocks A Dart block is miles better. not when you're a grudge racer. But in other cases yes. Though I have broke a dart SHP block in a car going 8.80s My fault, rattled the motor, and it cracked the web
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Something clever here.
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Really digging the green mustang posted above. Like the paint scheme but love the color.
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Back in my younger days I owned a 1970 Mach I 428 CJ, it was yellow with black trim, black window louvers and black spoiler, it had the rare drag pack, wish I still had it. The girls sure liked it, if that back seat could only talk.
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As I was/am heading towards retirement I decided I wanted to toy with an earlier car. I had mid-60's Corvette's before kids. Didn't really have a care whether Ford, GM or Mopar just did not want to spend a wad and I wanted something to work on with my youngest son. I found this clean, rust free car in SoCal for a song. All original and most rebuilt, repainted, etc. Jr now knows how to use a timing light and also what a jolt feels like. We are having fun with it.
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I love it, Ed! Beautiful!
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I like liberals-------------------------------------they make good bear bait!
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Dave, what color will this one be? Here is the 69 my friend did last summer. (DROOL).. Gawd, the Mustangs in those years were HOT...
Ex- USN (SS) '66-'69 Pro-Constitution. LET'S GO BRANDON!!!
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Dave, There's a lot of metal being scrapped off that car and renewed (in the truest sense of the word).
Coupla' questions:
A.) What do you pick as your control point / "survey Stake" from which to square everything up on the diagonal, for correct height, parallelism, and other alignment mojos critical to handling and tracking ?
B.) Do you measure optically as well as with measuring devices ?
Cheers, and thanks for another interesting thread aborning !
GTC
I plan to level the car, supported by 4 points at the rockers. That's my plan anyways, level the rockers, reference them for my frame rail placement per ford drawings.
Something clever here.
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Dave you need a framing Jig, my buddy has one that we've used to build tube chassis cars. pretty simple to build your own with some I beam.
God bless Texas----------------------- Old 300 I will remain what i am until the day I die- A HUNTER......Sitting Bull Its not how you pick the booger.. but where you put it !! Roger V Hunter
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Not to make light of the whole spectrum of challenges involved in this line of tradesmanship,...
The ALIGNMENT "mojo" is what drove me crazy anytime I messed with unibody / subframed vehicles.Did this for friends that needed help with old, salt damaged classics out of Eastern Canada.
Always made me glad that my primary focus was larger vehicles, trucks, etc.
The thing with "Jigs" and Fixtures is that they are virtually ALWAYS in the way of piano wiring, string lining, or optical measurement.Remember we're REaligning things here, not doing an initial build.
I'd say something along the lines of a giant universal protractor that one could roll in and out underneath might make life easier.
Hope I didn't spoil Dave's fishin' trip with this brainstorming.
GTC
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