Kristopher's 1967 Ford Mustang

Vehicle Overview

The vehicle started it's life in the San Jose Ford assembly plant back in early 1967. The car was ordered and delivered to a local dealer in L.A. California. Unfortunately the customer decided to purchase a new Dodge instead and with that, the new Mustang awaited a new home. A few months later the car was purchased from a good friend of mine's parents. They bought the car on the spot and drove it for many months. One day the husbands wife told her husband that she would rather have a RED Mustang instead of the Frosted Turquoise that it came as from the factory/dealer. The husband, being the great person he was told his wife, no problem. The car was delivered to a Ford dealer to repaint the car from Frosted Turquoise (B paint code) to Ford's Candy Apple Red (T paint code). When the car was inspected after its repaint, the husband was very unhappy with the results of this respray and to make the customer happy, the dealer didn't charge the husband for the work. The husband then told the dealer that he was not going to let the paint employees attempt another try and that day, he drove the car back home. The car drove all over California with the family, drove both kids to school and even into the later years when the son, my good friend, would take over driving the car to college and later on. During the sons college years, he worked on the car with his friends modifying whatever he could afford or had the knowledge of. Later on the car's 289ci engine, transmission and rear end was sent to a local shop in LA California where it was brought back to life but had some highly sought after upgrades. At this time, the engine received an overhaul, transmission received similar work with upgraded ship kids etc. and the rear end was updated as well with some new 3.55 gears for the Santa Monica Strip. The car spent many years driving around California yet again, even with it's faded Candy Apply Red paintjob from the Ford dealer, but the son was now much older and started a family of his own. The car sat in the garage of this new home, where once in a while the friend of mine would come and tinker with the car when he had the time. One last upgrade was a new flash set of 17" wheels for the Mustang. But this would be one of the last times it was actually seen or even worked on. The car sat for nearly 20+ years in the same garage, collecting dust and still no respray with the faded red paint. The family grew up and unfortunately grew apart. November 2022, I received a call from my buddy. He said I'm ready to sell the car but there's a catch. You have to get it either running or towed to your place. It can't stay here. So with this news, we were green light all the way. I arrived at my friends place to change ownership of the car and attempt to get the car running so I wouldn't have to get it towed to my place. Many hours later, the car fired up for the first time in many many years. I wasn't sure if I purchased a Mustang or an old locomotive with as much smoke it bellowed. I did however have the biggest smile on my face. I knew this revival was only the beginning. When the car drove onto my driveway for the first time, my family immediately piled into the car for our first drive ever in the Mustang. When we got back to the house, I immediately pulled the car into the garage and right away up on jackstands. The first drive was sketchy at best, barely had braking power, carb wasn't running right, engine had misfires, car felt like I was turning a boat and the transmission barely shifted. The first item I tackled was the brakes.