We have, although we don't have it with us, a 1967 Mustang with 289 engine. We bought it in 1990. It's black, although it was originally candy apple green. (We didn't change the color.) The car has 104,000 miles on it, but the engine has fewer. My husband bought it from a friend at work who claimed they only drove it in parades. This was probably true, because he didn't know it had no brakes. On the way home from Zeeland, MI, to Grand Rapids, MI, there was a pileup on I 96 to which hubs almost contributed because of the no-brake situation. Thank God for medians. So that was the first bit of work done on the car. Every year we put some more $ into it, up to today, when our son, who got it out of storage and is driving it for the summer, informed us Discount Tire refused to put air in the tires because they are from 1998 and probably rotted. And they also wanted to know how far he had to drive to get home. He said two miles, not mentioning the 35 on the freeway to get it from Muskegon to GR. It's also stalling and misfiring. We knew this last year but were too busy packing up the condo to move to get it fixed.
So this year's load o' dough will be for tires and spark plugs.
It was "raised" in dry California, so it has no rust under the car. It's not allowed out in the rain. We really wish the heater vent were not stuck on open, but Josh claims he can fix that, along with doing the spark plug work. He's happy as a pig in **** because he loves to work on simple cars, and his wife is equally happy because she loves driving that car.
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