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SFH1989
Apr 23, 2007

POSTER: SFH1989
VEHICLE: 1971 Ford LTD Convertible 429
GOAL: Not a show car, just a nice driver.
DIFFICULTY: Fairly easy, doing it in small increments. Will get harder when I get to the body work and engine/tranny rebuilds.
COSTS: $3-4K in parts and tools, the car itself was $0.
LINK: Archived thread. Here's my CarDomain for it.

I got this car two and a half years ago when I was 16. It was just about on it's way to the junk yard and I could not let that happen. Took about a year to get it on the road and I've put 1200 miles on it so far. It gets around 8mpg with the big block 429.

When I got it:



Currently:

SFH1989 fucked around with this message at 00:33 on Apr 1, 2008

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