I've been waiting a few years to pull this car out of the storage shed. I've finally navigated my way through enough of the projects that I had in front of me that I figured it was reasonable to bring this one home and start toying with it. I bought this car from my uncle, I knew it was pretty straight and well cared for by the previous owner, but after cleaning it up Saturday I called my uncle and told him that I probably owe him some more cash. The body is far nicer than I ever expected.
Engine has 106k miles on it, never been pulled apart. I was told that when my two uncles parked it 22 years ago that it smoked like a freight train. By next spring I'll have that handled and if everything goes right I'll have it on the road for next summer.
Plan: 390 with 428 crank, COAE-D heads with cobra jet valves, 3x2 intake, 406 style exhaust manifolds. I've collected all these parts already, just need the valvetrain and pistons and I should be ready to stick a motor together. For now I'm going to keep the original T-10 transmission. In the future I'll change out to a TKO600.
Here's pictures from the shed (the condition that I've always seen it in).
Took it to the shop and washed for about an hour
Got it unloaded at my place.
My girlfriend started seeing some results from me waxing so she shoved me aside and told me to go vacuum it and she'd do the waxing. I'll post up more pictures when I get the whole car cleaned up.
Found this in the glove box when I was booted from waxing. This car was purchased from the original owner by my uncle back in 1995. I don't think my uncle did much digging into stuff, just parked it away for a later date. Still had the original owners manual in it with notes from the dealership and some of the original owners service notes. Really cool. The car was purchased from a dealership that I work about 2 miles from. Has the "Sill-TerHar Ford" emblem on the back still.
