CRUSHU
13-05-2010, 11:04 AM
We were going on a Holiday to the US, for a week, to watch the Drag Racing. It blew out to just over 3 weeks...
A mate says to us, buy a musclecar, and drive it around, then bring it back and sell it at a massive profit, and pay for some of your holiday.... Good idea (I'm easily led...).
Start looking, and find a Mustang, big motor, all Pro Street style.... mostly restored.
Way too early, the seller can't hold onto it, so I get it shipped over anyway, and organise a hire car for our trip. It was on the water to Australia, when we were there.
We get home, car arrives a week or 2 later, and was dodgy as! the 393 stroker with aftermarket heads etc, was a mild 351w. the diff was stock, the auto was pretty stock.... Most of the interior was unusable, and the paint was a quicky respray.... he saw me coming!
In the past 5 years, I've built up a nice 418 stroker, alloy heads, solid roller cam, Holley 950hp carb, twin 3" mandrel bent exhaust, race C4 auto, 4500rpm convertor, 9" with 31sp alloy axles, 3.5 gears and minispool (out of my F truck). Fitted discs all round, redone steering, fitted all new accessories to the interios (knobs/handles etc), new shifter, new steering wheel, guage pods on the pillar, Convo Pro's (15 x 8.5 rear, and 15 x 4 front).
Took it to work to show the boys, and a chick in a Proton runs straight into the back of me, as I'm turning onto the highway!
Full respray later, got it back in November, took it to Summernats (I took it a couple times before) and had a ball.
Was driving it to a mates place, and got caught up in the big hail storm we had in Vic, and now it looks like it will be getting resprayed again!!
I have a blower manifold sitting at home for it, thinking about putting the blower off the F150 on it. I have also just had a Dakota Digital dash kit arrive, which I will be fitting sometime soon. I am looking to put a 6 point 1/2 cage in it, and to take it to Calder for some runs, maybe later in the year.
A mate says to us, buy a musclecar, and drive it around, then bring it back and sell it at a massive profit, and pay for some of your holiday.... Good idea (I'm easily led...).
Start looking, and find a Mustang, big motor, all Pro Street style.... mostly restored.
Way too early, the seller can't hold onto it, so I get it shipped over anyway, and organise a hire car for our trip. It was on the water to Australia, when we were there.
We get home, car arrives a week or 2 later, and was dodgy as! the 393 stroker with aftermarket heads etc, was a mild 351w. the diff was stock, the auto was pretty stock.... Most of the interior was unusable, and the paint was a quicky respray.... he saw me coming!
In the past 5 years, I've built up a nice 418 stroker, alloy heads, solid roller cam, Holley 950hp carb, twin 3" mandrel bent exhaust, race C4 auto, 4500rpm convertor, 9" with 31sp alloy axles, 3.5 gears and minispool (out of my F truck). Fitted discs all round, redone steering, fitted all new accessories to the interios (knobs/handles etc), new shifter, new steering wheel, guage pods on the pillar, Convo Pro's (15 x 8.5 rear, and 15 x 4 front).
Took it to work to show the boys, and a chick in a Proton runs straight into the back of me, as I'm turning onto the highway!
Full respray later, got it back in November, took it to Summernats (I took it a couple times before) and had a ball.
Was driving it to a mates place, and got caught up in the big hail storm we had in Vic, and now it looks like it will be getting resprayed again!!
I have a blower manifold sitting at home for it, thinking about putting the blower off the F150 on it. I have also just had a Dakota Digital dash kit arrive, which I will be fitting sometime soon. I am looking to put a 6 point 1/2 cage in it, and to take it to Calder for some runs, maybe later in the year.