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79 Mustang, new daily driver?

It's great to see hard work pay off.

Now that you got her out of the corral, watch out she's gonna want to run wild!!







Jeff - :navajo:
 



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OK, read your other posts about the sub frame connectors and the forward frame support under the battery.

I don't belive you really need sub frames, like you said yourself, your not racing it, plus if I was looking at buy an original Cobra, I would be pissed that these were installed, and the time and effort it would take to remove and repair the area where they were welded in.


Tim would probably agree with me here, I would go find a donor car, take a cordless sawzall and cut the frame horn off of that and duplicate the same cut on yours and weld it in and repaint, now remember I'm all about keeping the value of the car, sure you and G-Pa can clean up that area and weld in angle iron and "Fix it" but there again you have a rare bird, and it can be/is worth a great amount of monies.

Yes you'll have to disassemble 2/3's of the front end, but it will be worth it, you be learning some skills, and you'll feel more accomplished, and value the car for what it's really worth.

Remember I warned you about those guys on FEP, before we even got to this point they were already telling you to do stuff that wasn't on the list for keeping the Cobra stock.

I'll put it to you this way, I, personally would pay $3500 - $4000 for that car right now, unless you'd rather have what everyone else wants which it the coveted 5.0 5spd.

To also give you an idea, a quick scan over at Evil Bay brought up this car, waaay more rust, mods and missing parts and he still wants $2600, and as for the rare 1 of 3 in this combo, well? Pffft!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1979...cks?hash=item4a9b1e4813&_trksid=p4506.c0.m245


I guess my point is I'm looking at the survivor factor here, and the rarity of you NEVER see these Cobra's at events or shows, unmolested, and if you see them most tool sacks have converted them to V-8's, 302, 5.0 whatever you want to call it.

But to have it all stock and running and driving says a lot more than a fast hot rod, everyone has those.

A very good friend of mine here in town for years I beat on him about keeping all the stock parts he takes off cars, finally here in 2009 he's figured that out.

He's also figured out that if he buys them modded, and stocks them back out, then he makes more monies off the car, AND he has all the mods he can sell for even more profit, OR he has someone like me who has been buying stock "Take Off" parts from him for excellent monies, we have a revolving account between one another.
Once he saw that he collected more stock parts and has found that he has more buyers for the stock parts than the modded ones, and people are looking for good clean "Stock" 1979-93 cars than modded ones, and their paying premium $$$$$$ for them.

That's how I landed my 1985 LX, AND why I obtained it, cause it was unmolested except for the exhaust. which I now have the stock tail pipes to put back on it.

The other 2 Foxes I have are also bone stock, but one has had an exterior and interior color change done to it, but still has stock drive train and suspension, and no rust on both cars.


I dunno Alec, everyone has a personal opinion about this whole thing, I love it cause you have a rarely seen car that is for the most part other than the radio (which IS cool, cause it's high end after market for back in the day and a clean install) stock and very clean from the pictures, and would take to a minor restoration to make it look new again, fun to drive, and make everybody's turn their head.

Plus, it's an investment, NADA at 20 years old considered it a "Classic", here in Texas, at 25 years old you can run classic plates on it, like my 1985 F150 Flareside, and 1985 Mustang LX, and the Antique plates on the other two Foxbody Mustang we have, 1979 Mustang Giha and 1982 Mustang L.



Jeff - :navajo:
 






alright, I dont care what my grandpa says, I'm taking it apart.

I can't justify in my mind doing a half ass job just cuz It's not necessary to break the whole thing down. He'll say "You don't NEED to do that, its way more work than you want to do!" and I'll say "I want to do it right, even if I don't really know how to do it."

it's still better than his idea. I'm not awful with a welder and need to make sure I just don't blow holes in it. and Ill keep water with me AND sand off all paint to reduce catching it on fire. It can't be the huge pain in the :mattmoon: as he says it is. it's just time. I have all the tools.

now I just need a donor frame-horn...

To Pick-A-Part!
 












Hey my name is kyle. Its really cool to see that someone else has one of these. I have the same thing as you and a 84 svo. I also work at a mustang shop so if theres anything i can help you with let me no. And some advice i wouldent do any performance mods to this car the motor just cant handel it. these 79 2.3 turbo motors where always blowing the turbos up im talking amost every month if your not careful you have a prized posetion in your hands... i also have a 1979 mustang electrical and vacuum manual for this car it has every wire from the head light to the tail light in it and everything between so if you have any problem let me no... have fun with the car
 












Hey kyle, I'm Alec. good to meet ya!

so far this has been the best forum for mustang talk I could find! :p:

feel free to post up pics of yours!
 












lol i wold put up some pics of mine but my camera sucks so bad.. the only thing is the motor i have now is out of a 87 thunderbird turbo coupe but i still have the old motor..
 






 












well, I've run into a bit of a snag.

I bought the stuff for the brakes a couple weeks ago, but I couldn't install them. the brake pads were wrong and not fitting correctly. so I returned them to Schucks and explained the problem. after searching part #'s for a while we figured out that the pads I got belong on the 302, but the computer has it listed as both 302 and 2.3T. I know this to be wrong as 1) it physically doesn't work and 2) the 2.3 has different calipers than the 302.

I'm going to try Baxters tomorrow and see what they come up with.

does anyone know why the computer would come up with the wrong part? is it simply a mistake that needs correcting? are the Cobra gods insistent on keeping me from driving my car? will I ever finish this project? how much longer can I go on? is this the end?!? :help:
 






Lacky01 said:
well, I've run into a bit of a snag.

I bought the stuff for the brakes a couple weeks ago, but I couldn't install them. the brake pads were wrong and not fitting correctly. so I returned them to Schucks and explained the problem. after searching part #'s for a while we figured out that the pads I got belong on the 302, but the computer has it listed as both 302 and 2.3T. I know this to be wrong as 1) it physically doesn't work and 2) the 2.3 has different calipers than the 302.

I'm going to try Baxters tomorrow and see what they come up with.

does anyone know why the computer would come up with the wrong part? is it simply a mistake that needs correcting? are the Cobra gods insistent on keeping me from driving my car? will I ever finish this project? how much longer can I go on? is this the end?!? :help:
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It's just a bad listing in the computer, try a napa they use a different computer system than most of the other stores.
 






I've got the brakes figured out, I'll order the pads as soon as I get paid.
How many quarts of brake fluid will I need for bleeding? i've never bled brakes before.

and wonderful news! I found an '88 Mustang in a U-pull just down the road from me! is the front portion of the frame under the battery box going to be the same as my '79? It's already exposed, I'm just going to cut it off right at the K member to give myself as much material to work with as I can get.

it's coming together folks!
 





















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Lacky01, yes the frame rail will be the same. if you can, cut it as far back as humanly possible. that way when you are digging into your car, and there is more there then what you saw in the first place, you will have lots from your donner part.

but as i said before, if you want to trade your mustang for my parts truck, I'm willing to do it strait up! :D
 






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