Tore out the old seats and mounting brackets. My new seats and brackets showed up, and I got started on the headliner. Made some good progress on the car tonight. OK continuing on.this was done Thanksgiving weekend: This was in early November and how the car looked when I brought it home. On the way already are new Procar lowback bucket seats and mounts, and a Holley Sniper EFI conversion. I figure I'll post my project on here, should be cool. Plan on taking it to the track in the spring, so going to upgrade and sort it out over the winter. I'm driving the hell out of the thing and having a blast. Luckily the rad guy gave me a 3" binder of pictures and receipts for the entire build. Too much other stuff I can't think of or don't know about. Subframe connectors, sprint rear axle with 3.73's and new posi. Suspension is all done with Falcon Sprint parts. Still needs a headliner (which he gave me), and gotta get rid of those 90's cougar bucket seats. Whole car is straight, no rust, new paint, new interior, etc. Lumpy cam, new top end, aluminum heads, Weiand Stealth intake, Holly Double Pumper, Performance Distributor, Hooker super comps, etc. Very nicely done 5.0 swap from a ~99 Explorer, and fully built. It turned out to be a long term project by an older guy, who didn't really spare any expense. A Falcon is close enough to a Mustang to make me happy. The car turned out be super nice! It looks fairly original, until you notice those traction bars underneath and the tire size. It wasn't too far away, so I stopped by to take a look. Something about a 5.0 and a T5 swap, but the pictures sucked. I was dicking around on Facebook marketplace like usual, and a crappy ad for a 61 Falcon popped up, that had some interesting details. My first car was a 66 Mustang (still in the family), and I'd figured the next car was going to be another first gen Mustang build next year, time to get back to my roots. Fortunately, things didn't go as planned. I wasn't planning on getting another car for the winter, was going to focus on motorcycle projects. I recently sold my 1951 Ford Deluxe 2 door sedan shoebox that was my driver for the summer, it's soon on it's way to Normandy, France to a good dude I met through the Shoebox Facebook group. I'm going to use most of my thread info I posted on the HAMB here, and then continue on with my project updates here. After reading a ton on GRM forum lately, this place seems like a way better home for my pretty varied car interests, with motorcycle stuff on the side here haha. I've been on the HAMB / Jalopy Journal for years, as I'm primarily interested in classic American cars and hot rods/customs, but not as niche as they seem to prefer. I use project loosely as I bought the car as a good driver already, but lacking lots of little things I would like. I've had more cars and motorcycles than I can count over the years, but this thread will be about my current project. I'm a lifelong car and motorcycle dude, and spend most of my time wrenching, riding, breaking, and fixing stuff. I work for RMSTATOR, we design and build electrical components for powersports motors (motorcycles, ATVs, SxS, snowmobiles, etc). I'm Evan, a 37 y/o Electrical Engineer from Souther California, living in Northern Colorado. Well figured I should start off my first useful post on the forum with something interesting.
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