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No. 07

Features

18
Contents 18
Tech

42
Baby in a Corner Rebuilding the T-5
Harley Padilla’s “baby” is a Five-Speed Manual
full-tilt 1965 Mustang built Part 1: Cracking open a used
to decimate road courses transmission for a rebuild

26 52
Vapor! In the Doghouse
This Mustang pro-touring The right way to install a
build is anything but 34 Dynacorn front structure
vaporware—it is the
cutting-edge real deal
60
The Dynamic Duo
34 Dyno-testing cylinder
Corruptt heads and a cam upgrade
Tony Arme Jr. built a on a 5.0L engine
custom Mustang hardtop
with a Ferrari F430 V-8
engine—hey, at least
Departments
it’s not an LS!
42 4 HO O FBE ATS
8 PON Y TA LES
12 N EW B IT S
14 R ARE FIND S
66 R ESTO RO UN DU P
68 BE YON D T HE B A SICS
70 R EADE R’S ALBUM
73 HI N DSIG HT

ON THE COVER
This month’s cover is brought to you by a who’s who of automotive photographers. Wes Allison caught Tony Arme Jr.’s
Ferrari-powered Mustang hardtop cruising down a Southern California mountain road, while Robert McGaffin shot the
Roadster Shop’s Vapor Mustang in a brief moment of stillness, and our own Studio God Jorge Nuñez photographed BSI’s road
race hardtop in our El Segundo photo studio. Richard Holdener tested heads and a cam swap in a 302 on Westech’s dyno, and
Dave Stribling got dirty changing the front sheetmetal with Dynacorn parts.

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Mustang
Owner’s
Museum Opens!
W
E’VE BEEN HEARING ABOUT IT
FOR A FEW YEARS NOW, with
frequent construction and content
updates, and the Mustang Owner’s
Museum finally held its grand opening
on National Mustang Day—April 17,
2019—55 years to the day after the
Mustang was debuted to the world at
the World’s Fair in Flushing Meadows,
New York. The museum is a stone’s
throw from Charlotte Motor Speedway
in the Carpenter Industrial Complex
(home to both Dennis Carpenter
and Daniel Carpenter Ford/Mustang
restoration products companies), so
after the grand opening there was a
55th anniversary show held inside the
racetrack that drew Mustangs and
their owners from all over the world.
We even got to see Adelbert Engler, a
huge Mustang collector from Belgium
that we have featured in the magazine
and on the website, and his late-model
Mustang that he shipped all the way to
North Carolina from his home country.
Check out mustang-360.com for
coverage of both the museum opening
and the 55th event.
After museum director Steve Hall
and a representative of the Cabar-
rus County Visitors Bureau spoke,
the Mustang’s original designer, Gale
4 M U S T A N G M O N T H LY.C O M
Rob Kinnan E D I T O R
Halderman, cut the ribbon to open the
museum. The doors swung open and
the huge crowd that had gathered out-
side began to pour in to check out the
museum display cars and memorabilia,
all of them with cameras in hand blaz-
ing away, capturing the moment that
they first experienced the museum.
Those attendees were treated to
Mustangs from almost every year, from
a 1964½ Mustang from Ford’s Magic
Skyway ride at the New York World’s
Fair in 1964 to the latest 2020
Mustang Shelby GT500. The Mus-
tang Owner’s Museum has displays
of super-rare Mustangs from the likes
of Shelby, Saleen, Roush, Iacocca, and
other rarely seen models you only see
at larger Mustang shows, including a
few that we have featured in Mustang
Monthly. More interestingly from a
museum standpoint, you’ll also see
Mustangs that otherwise may not see
the light of any Mustang show, such
as a few concept cars and prototypes
and some legendary race cars that have
been tucked away out of sight for years.
The two-story building covers
42,000 square feet (per floor), and with
ample parking, it allows for events to
be hosted year-round. As we reported
a few years ago, museum officials are
planning several different display ar-
eas, including Mustang history, racing,
specialty builds, a section for each gen-
eration of Mustang, an area for “Mus-
tang kids,” and much more. A theater
at the main entrance will introduce
the Mustang and the museum itself.
The museum’s displays are meant to
be a fluid and ever-changing scenario,
as vehicles and displays will rotate in
and out to coincide with major events,
historical dates, and the like. And since
it’s open for events, we expect to see
corporate parties, weddings, and simi-
lar events happening over the years.
Why is the Mustang Owner’s
Museum important? Because it rep-
resents the culmination of decades of
attempts at a true Mustang museum to
honor the car’s consistency of manu-
facture—no other marque has been in
continuous production longer than the
Mustang. (Some may bring up Cor-
vette, which began production in 1953,
but that car had a year where it wasn’t
offered, in 1983.) Marketing and public
relations fixture Steve Hall is the man
behind the museum, spending years
securing funding and donations to get
the museum both built and stocked, so
all credit goes to him and his team.
Since this is the one museum
dedicated to the Mustang, I encour-
age every Mustang enthusiast to visit
and donate whatever you can to keep
it open. With the massive amount of
details involved in construction, mar-
keting, gathering cars to display, and
the grand opening, there is still plenty
of room left over for displays. This
museum will be a constantly updating
situation, meaning over the months
and years, more cars and displays will
be added—it should be a new experi-
ence each time.
As we encourage readers and auto-
motive fans to visit, we also encourage
anyone reading this to lend any rare,
historic, or significant Mustangs to
the museum, even if for a short time,
since this is how many museums oper-
ate. Even the huge museums like the
Petersen Automotive in Los Angeles
and The Henry Ford in Dearborn
feature vehicles either donated or on
loan from benefactors, and they cover a
large spectrum of enthusiasts—they’re
not all rich guys. Do you have a cool
Mustang that you think people would
like to see and aren’t driving or showing
it at the moment? Call Steve Hall at the
museum and see if it’s something that
would fit with the current offerings.
For more information, or to become
a member of the Mustang Owner’s
Museum, visit their website at
mustangownersmuseum.com.
PHOTO: LAURA SHARP
Q The man holding the oversize scissors is Gale Halder-
man, the original designer of the Mustang. To the right is
Steve Hall, who orchestrated the museum’s creation, and
in the background you can see some of the dignitaries
present, including Kevin Marti and Ford’s John Clor.
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Ponies in the
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T
he 2019 Ponies in the Smokies show in Sevierville,
Tennessee, presented by National Parts Depot,
was its third annual; however, it was Mustang
Monthly’s first time attending. The show
format includes four days of events. A
Roush ride-along plus autocross and
driving experience kicked things off on Wednesday
along with a Shine Run (think poker run where you
get a card at each stop, including the famous Tail of
the Dragon). Drag racing at English Mountain Dragway
got Thursday off to a great start with the Shine Run party
Thursday night at Quaker Steak & Lube. Friday is the main
large indoor/outdoor judged show at the Sevierville Con-
vention Center. The show also features “dueling dynos,” with
two mobile dynos on-site along with vendors, special displays
like 55 Years of Mustang, National Parts Depot’s “Snakepit,”
and a teaser display of Special Service Package (SSP) Mustang
police cars in advance of next year’s huge SSP reunion display
that is being planned. Saturday’s event is labeled as an all-Ford
cruise-in and is held at the same location as Friday’s judged show.

Obviously, the Sevierville area there is plenty to do before and after

offers a lot of touristy fun for the whole
family, so this is one event you surely
want to bring your significant other
and kids to. All of the event locations
are family friendly, and there are plenty
of other options for entertainment
and great eats in the area as well. From
Dollywood to ziplining to cavern tours
to the infamous Tail of the Dragon in
nearby Deals Gap, North Carolina,
the show, so why not make a whole
week of it! Put that PTO in now for the
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Full Throttle Kustomz Is

Building a 1969 Hardtop Tribute

I
f you’re a fan of car TV, the 10-speed automatic. “I’m not glued to Body Works (also a host of Motor City
name Ray McClelland is any particular drivetrain, but whatever Masters) is handling the bodywork and
probably familiar—he’s a host it is, it’ll have twin turbos on it. It’s not paint. The car was originally green with
of Motor City Masters and going to be a race car, more of a cross- a vinyl top, but Ray is painting it blue
the owner of Full Throttle country cruiser that I can pull into a with flat-black accents…and keeping
Kustomz in Fillmore, California. Ray is dyno day or something and throw down the vinyl top for a sleeper attitude.
doing some tuning work to our GEN3 some big numbers.” Target finish date is SEMA 2019 (it
Coyote-powered Week to Wicked 1967 If he indeed does a 10-speed swap, was in BSI’s booth at the 2018 SEMA
fastback, and while we were at the shop we will bring you all the nitty-gritty Show), and once it’s done we’ll try to
he told us about his latest project. details. Currently, the car is at BSI bring you a full feature and (hopefully)
Medusa is a 1969 Mustang hardtop getting the chassis, and Rich Evans of a big, gnarly burnout video on the car!
being built as a tribute to his uncle, who Vintage Flatz and Huntington Beach —Rob Kinnan
he was very close to but passed away
when Ray was 11 years old. The car
ended up at his other uncle’s house in
Pennsylvania with 70,000 miles on it,
and it sat for years, slowly deteriorating
in the northeast weather. Ray talked
his uncle out of the car and brought it
home to Southern California. He is cur-
rently building it to look like his uncle
would have had it, but with a serious
drivetrain under the skin.
He says, “My uncle was an enthu-
siast but didn’t really work on cars, so
in tribute to him I want to keep the
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chassis all about me.”
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date monster rubber in order to handle
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yet, a 5.8L four-cam modular with
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RAREFINDS Jerry Heasley T E X T & P H O T O G R A P H Y

Garage Find: dad, Bryan, had even seen the car.

Neil admitted that while the sale was
Before & After emotional for him, he was nonetheless
pleased to sell. This Mustang had been
his first car in high school, and now
it would be Wyatt’s first car in high
school. Wyatt could finish the project
Neil started 30 years earlier.
“It’s a ’64½, a six-cylinder,
automatic, plain Jane. Original color
was Wimbledon White with a silver/
blue interior. Somebody had painted
Before
“It’s been in this garage for 15
years, so it has years of stuff on it,”
Neil replied. Friend Jeff Krueger also
showed up, and he said, “Good Lord,
there’s a car underneath all that stuff.”
Rolled out into the sun and free of
boxes and junk, the hardtop looked
very restorable. The Studers had been
advised the car needed new floorpans
but was otherwise complete. Best of
all, the family had Jeff’s shop behind
them to do most of the restoration

“
it blue. I replaced the whole front from start to finish. And when the car

I
clip—fenders, hood, headlight buckets, went to Vintage Autos in Lubbock,
doors, and that’s where it sits at this Texas, Neil would be doing most of the
point,” Neil told us. work. Neil is a full-time mechanic at a
Neil fell short on money after he local dealership and works part-time
scavenged parts for several years. for Jeff at Vintage.
His plan to build this ’64½ dwindled
when the “Mustang bug kicked in.” After
He found better cars after he got out One year and eight months later
of high school and began collecting we returned to Lubbock. The hardtop
paychecks. Neil’s daily driver of many had just been finished, and Neil was
years is a modified ’66 hardtop, and firing up the 200ci six-cylinder and
BOUGHT THIS CAR MY JUNIOR the ’70 SportsRoof was underway. poking a flashlight down into the one-
YEAR IN HIGH SCHOOL, IN 1987, It was time to sell the ’64½. When barrel carburetor, so it was maybe 99
OUT OF A WRECKING YARD,” Wyatt and his father, Bryan, arrived, percent finished. Wyatt, along with
Neil Thompson said. Thirty years Neil opened the garage door. Like his father, Bryan, and mom, Amy,
later, on June 11, 2017, we were us, they saw the car for the first time, had driven 160 miles from their new
standing in front of a single-car garage dusty and piled with debris. “It looks residence in Seymour, Texas, to meet
attached to Thompson’s home in pretty cool, what we can see of it,” said Jeff and Neil at the Vintage Autos
Lubbock, Texas. Neil was about to Bryan. Wyatt hid his emotions, but the shop. “Jeff has done the majority of
roll up the door to reveal his time sight of the old car covered with debris the work, but we did what we could
capsule. Incredibly, nobody in his had to be a shock. to help along the way—small stuff,”
local Lubbock Mustang car club had
ever seen this Mustang, but his friend
Jeff Krueger had heard stories.
“I thought it was a lie. He was just
trying to show off,” Jeff said with a
laugh. Neil had kept this Mustang
hidden most of those 30 years, parked
in this garage for the last 15 years. Jeff
knew a friend looking for a classic
Mustang for his son and wondered if
Neil would sell his hardtop. Neil did
need money to complete the build of
a 1970 SportsRoof, and he liked the
idea of passing the baton to a member
of the younger group coming up in the
car hobby, so he agreed to sell it for
what he called “a good cause.”
The new buyer was 14-year-old
Wyatt Studer, soon to enter high
school and wanting an early Mus-
tang. This vintage Mustang would
be his first car. Apparently, the deal
was done, and neither Wyatt nor his Q This photo is from June 11, 2017, when Neil opened his garage door to reveal his hidden barn find.

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Q “One piece at a time,” was how Neil described
the best way to get the 19641/2 out of the garage. Q Bryan and Wyatt, seen here on June 11, 2017, were enthused with the old Mustang, a first for both. Price was $5,500.

Q The original 170 was intact. Q Wyatt stuck with an inline-six but went with the larger 200 that came out in 1965.

Q Wyatt’s interest in early Mustangs started in elementary school. “I got a Hot Q The finished product did not follow stock guidelines. Bryan, Wyatt,
Wheels car, a 1967 Ford Mustang GT. From there, I just always wanted a sports car. and his mom, Amy, selected what Mustang extras they wanted.
When we first started, we were looking for a ’67 and couldn’t find one. This [1964 1/2]
was a lot better, I think.”

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 RAREFINDS

Bryan said. “We helped clean it up and

get all the junk out, did a lot of chrome
polishing, things like that,” Wyatt said.
“I do a little welding, but not enough
to weld floorpans in,” Bryan said.
Clearly, this was not a typical
father/son project. Vintage Autos had Q The interior was origi-
done most of the work, and this was nally blue, as seen here.
according to plan. Bryan said the proj-
ect had been a good bonding process.
He had never owned a Mustang, so
the purchase and restoration were as
exciting or more for him as for his son.
Amy Studer proved to be as much
a part of this process as Bryan and
Wyatt. She took particular interest in
the interior, where she had a lot of in-
put. The seats were red and black—the
black matching the black Shelby-style
stripes that Wyatt wanted instead of
the more popular white stripes. For
now, they stayed with the inline-six,
pulling the 170ci for a peppier 200ci
six-cylinder. When Wyatt gets older,
they might upgrade to a V-8.
Overall, the Studers—Wyatt,
Bryan, and Amy—are delighted with
the outcome, so much so that they are
thinking about building a second early
Mustang. However, this one will be for Q We understand that Amy picked the interior. Red vinyl bucket
Amy, and she wants a convertible. seats with black inserts match the exterior color combination.

Q That first day, June 11, 2017, when Neil handed Wyatt the keys to his first car from high school.

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 BABY IN A
CORNER
Harley Padilla’s “baby” is a full-tilt 1965 Mustang built to decimate road courses
Rob Kinnan T E X T • Jorge Nuñez & Rob Kinnan P H O T O G R A P H Y

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 N
ot many people
are lucky enough
to still own their
first car, but
Harley Padilla is
one of them. He got this
Mustang from his dad when
he was 14 years old, and
he used the car to learn
what to do and what not to
do when working on cars.
“When I was 16, I cut the
dash out of the car to make
it lighter,” Harley says, “and
my dad went through the
roof. But he didn’t know
that I kept the dash and had
Bodie reinstall it for this
last build.”
That obsession with
weight savings played a big
hand in the car’s current
and final stage—a no-
compromise, full-tilt road
race machine with almost
800 hp, a 2,800-pound
curb weight, and the goal
of pinning a smile on
Harley’s face as he thunders
down the front straight of
Willow Springs at ludicrous
speeds, leaving Porsches
and Corvettes in his dust.
Harley says, “The car has
been restored four times
over the years, each time
a new evolution with a
different engine, different
bodywork, different paint,
etc., but it’s in its last stage
now. Now I finally got it the
way I want it.”
Harley’s father planted
the racing seed in his boy
early on, taking him to a
vintage race at El Toro
Marine Base in Southern
California when he was
young. “Around the time
he gave me the car, he
‘accidentally’ took me
to a road race, and ever
since then he’s dreaded it,”
Harley says with a laugh.
Since the stock Mustang
Unibody is too flexible for
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BABY IN A CORNER {
1965 MUSTANG
}
ultimate handling without
a ton of work, Harley
went to Bodie Stroud at
BS Industries (BSI) in
Sun Valley, California,
for one of his company’s
complete 1965-1968
Mustang chassis kits. The
BSI chassis is welded to the
stock Mustang floorpans
and framerails, turning it
into a full-frame car with
much less flex than stock.
Add in a 14-point rollcage,
and this thing is as stiff
as a Trans-Am car. Bodie
tells us, “Harley came to
us with a Fairlane project,
which has been here for
two or three years because
he got anxious and put this
Mustang in front of the
Fairlane. We had built him Q BSI’s four-link setup and JRi adjust-
a black ’65 fastback before, able coilovers control the rear suspen-
a period-correct Mustang sion. The exhaust was fabricated by
that he used for vintage Harley and his friend Matt Walrath
road racing, but then he
using Burns Stainless bullet mufflers
and merge collectors on tri-Y headers.
crashed his blue Mustang. All of the electrical cables are hidden
Having seen our chassis in the rocker panels. Harley says,
for Mustangs, he wanted “When I build a race car, I don’t want
it for the blue car and told to see all of that stuff, so I had Bodie
us to put it in front of the remove the rockers, bury the cables
Fairlane.” in there, and then reattach the rockers.”

Q Here you can see the

front portion of the BSI
frame, Matt Walrath–
fabricated front splitter,
and Jones Racing Compo-
nents engine pulleys.

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 Q This car was built for one purpose only:
maximum fun on a road course. The Lexan
windows, save for the quarter-windows, are
from Shields (racingshields.com) and have
the company’s Supercoating that makes
them crystal clear at all times.

Q The car is based around BSI’s 1965-1968 Mustang chassis, which uses
rectangular tubing to turn the Unibody Mustang into a full-frame car. It
retains the stock floorpan but is welded to it. The chassis comes with
framerails, a front crossmember, upper and lower control arms with BSI’s
patented EZ-Aline adjusters, Matt Walrath–tweaked spindles, RideTech
coilovers, a rack-and-pinion steering setup, a rear crossmember with
four-link brackets, a triangulated four-link, rear frame plates, a rear shock
crossmember and sway bar mount, a 9-inch housing (though Harley’s car
has a Speedway 9-inch), front and rear sway bars, forward rollcage down
bars, and inner fenders.

Q Jim Grubbs built

the 363ci small-block
using only the best
parts available.
That includes a Dart
aluminum block, AFR
205cc heads, a Bryant
crank, Oliver rods,
a Comp Cams solid
roller camshaft, a BLP
road race carb on an
Edelbrock Victor Jr.
intake, an MSD igni-
tion, and Jones Racing
Components pulleys.
With 14.5:1 compres-
sion and on race gas
it makes 778 hp.

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BABY IN A CORNER { 1965 MUSTANG
True to his nature,
Harley wanted his car to
be as light as possible, and
he spared no expense to
get what he wanted. Bodie
says, “We wanted to make
it as light as it can be, so
the chassis and ’cage are
chromoly, there are a lot
of titanium fasteners,
everything is as light as it
can be. We really went to
town on it, putting in new
floors, quarters, fenders,
and built the complete
chassis. It came out
unbelievable.”
One main design
objective was to stuff
as much rubber as
possible under the stock
sheetmetal, and after a lot
of engineering and thought,
BSI got P305/45R18s to
fit. “We brought the track
width in, really tucked it in
but maintained the correct
roll centers and scrub
ratios. There’s a very small
fender flare there but not
much more than factory,”
Bodie says. BSI also did all
the bodywork and paint,
spraying it in “the lighter of
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}
the three Ford GT blues,”
says Harley. All of the
sheetmetal on the car is
N.O.S., not reproduction;
the only exceptions are the
Shelby Cobra R front fascia
and hood, which no doubt
will annoy the Mustang
restoration crowd.
The drivetrain is equally
serious. The all-aluminum
363ci engine was built by best carburetor I’ve ever
Jim Grubbs at JGM with used. I put BLP carbs on all
a Dart block, AFR 205cc my road race cars.” With
cylinder heads, a Sonny 14.5:1 compression and
Bryant billet crank, Oliver running C12 race fuel, the
rods, a Comp Cams solid small-block makes 778 hp,
roller cam riding on roller enough to make it scary
cam bearings, an Edelbrock fast on a road course. The
Victor Jr. intake, and a BLP transmission is a Jerico
road racing carburetor that four-speed with a Tilton
Harley says, “is by far the 7.5-inch triple-disc clutch,
Q (Left) More hardcore road race
stuff: The oil system is controlled
by a 5 Stage Peterson dry sump.
Q (Below) Cobra carbon-fiber race seats
and 5-point Schroth harnesses keep Har-
ley in place. A 14-point rollcage (designed
by Harley) and Spa Technique Extreme fire
system keep him safe if anything crazy
happens. A Woodward column and quick-
release holds a Sparco steering wheel,
and that shifter is connected to a Jerico
four-speed with a Tilton triple-disc clutch.
Gauges are all Auto Meter.
 BABY IN A CORNER { 1965 MUSTANG
}
which feeds through a Mark He still has the black 1984 Mustang SCCA race as we write this.
Williams carbon-fiber Mustang, saying, “I let Dad car. He also owns Roush Those Roush racers
driveshaft to a Speedway drive it on the track when chassis number 002, the should fit in just right with
Engineering 9-inch with we’re racing. It’s a street/ ex-Willy T. Ribbs/Greg Harley’s Mustangs and his
a Strange aluminum third race car that’s vintage Pickett Capri racer. “I’m a upcoming Trans-Am car,
member. correct.” He’s also building Roush nut,” Harley says. creating a garage scene
Harley has already his father a Shelby clone, He is also having Matt we can all envy. Especially
put a bunch of laps on and he just bought Roush Walrath, who did a lot of those of us with road
the Mustang, running chassis number 005, the work on this Mustang, racing blood in our
it at Willow Springs, old Motorcraft-sponsored build him a Trans-Am car veins.
Buttonwillow Raceway, and
Sonoma (Sears Point), and
the car is in the “sorting”
stages now as they dial in
the suspension to Harley’s
tastes. He generally runs
open track and club events,
as competing in the Vintage
Auto Racing Association
(VARA) series would be
difficult. Harley explains, “I
race it just for fun. I might Q The trunk holds the Peterson dry sump oil tank and custom
Protech fuel cell with an internal Edelbrock fuel pump. Harley
do some VARA races, but
designed the return-style fuel system with the help of Rod Stern. Q Harley took both his Mustangs to Sonoma Raceway for testing.
they’ll bump me up from
Vintage to the Modified
class, and I don’t know if
I can keep up.” Technical
inspectors at the racetrack
are often confused by the
car. Harley says, “Every
time an inspector goes over
the car, they ask, ‘What
class did you build this car
for?’ I answer, ‘None of
them; I built it the way
I want it.’”
Q Testing at Willow Springs International Raceway.
Q The wheels are 18s from Vintage Wheel Works (originally
from PS Engineering) and the tires are P305/45R18 Hoosier
race slicks. The wheels were machined to fit huge AP
Racing 6-piston calipers (4-piston in back) and 14-inch
rotors—the calipers clear the wheels by 1/16 inch.

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26 M U S T A N G M O N T H LY.C O M
M
arc Berger grew up 1966 Valiant, with no synchromesh in pro-touring masterpiece based on a
in California’s San First gear and no power steering. He 1965 Mustang fastback.
Fernando Valley, also admits to many early car crushes, “I am into art, architecture,
and like many of his fueled in part by a neighbor with a design,” says Berger. “I have built
peers in the late 1960s and into the 1970 Mustang Boss 302. It powered a several modern homes, ran a
1970s, he was steeped in the area’s car lifelong passion for early Mustangs, large landscape/pool design and
culture. He even remembers passing especially the 1965 and 1966 models, construction holding company, so
his driver’s test in a three-on-the-tree which brings us to this car—Vapor, his I’m always interested in functional

VAPOR!
This Mustang pro-touring build is anything but vaporware—it is the cutting-edge real deal
RICH AR D TR U ESDE LL T E X T • RO BE RT MC GA F FIN P H O T O G R A P H Y

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VAPOR! { MUSTANG PRO-TOURING
design. I like refined, clean,
simple lines. I believe great
design does not need a
bunch of add-ons to make
it good.”
“I like iconic car design,
and the 1965 Mustang was
one that I wanted to put
my own twist on,” says
Berger. “The Mustang build
concept was to do a car that
would be a modern version
of the classic and look like
it came from Europe rather
than Detroit. I wanted it to
have supercar performance
and not just look good. I
didn’t want it to be another
Eleanor clone or big motor
in a stock Mustang. My
original concept was what
}
would the 1965 Mustang started this car but think he wanted to work with
look like if it was built it was 2013 or 2014. The prior to starting the
today by Aston Martin or car went to the 2016 build that would become
Porsche? My other strong SEMA Show, but it was known as the Vapor. His
influences were the current not completely finished at research ultimately led
version of the Mustang that point.” to the Roadster Shop
and the original GT40. I Berger did a lot of in Mundelein, Illinois.
can’t remember what year I research regarding who Very impressed with
the shop’s fabrication
Q Peering out of the skills, he reached out to
19-inch Forgeline owner Phil Gerber about
wheels’ spokes are
Baer 14-inch Extreme the design concept and
six-piston monoblock what he wanted. Berger
calipers. The Roadster was told that they had a
Shop’s early Mustang 1965 Mustang fastback
chassis uses a they were prototyping
rack-and-pinion setup a chassis for to address
to steer the car and
the 1965-1966 Mustangs’
a Strange rearend
equipped with 3.9:1 known shortcomings—the
gears. The Fast Track chassis are designed with proprietary suspension geometry using original Unibody design
Corvette C6 spindles and high-dollar Penske coilovers as standard. was flexible; it was not

See the Build!

For a start-to-finish chronology of the car’s build, visit:
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engineered to handle
the kind of power Berger
planned for the car. Berger
took Gerber up on his offer,
shaving months off the time
needed to build a chassis
from scratch.
Next, Berger worked
with the inside design
team at the Roadster Shop,
and his point person was
designer Chris Gray. After
going through a series
of design renderings the
overall design was locked
in, and work began in
earnest in 2014.
With the high-powered
Dodge Challenger Hellcat
already on the scene, 700-
plus horsepower became
a benchmark for power. Mustang, but the Porsche vocabulary back in the
“I originally had bought a 911 immediately comes mid-1960s. This led Berger
5.0L Aluminator Coyote to mind. Here, Berger’s and Gray to tuck in the
motor for the build,” he design skills inspired the bumpers, shorten them,
tells Mustang Monthly. build, working closely with and make them look like
“The Roadster Shop was the Roadster Shop’s Gray. they were part of the car
finishing another 1965 Color-keyed bumpers with body-color paint.
Mustang build that was were not part of the design Berger needed fender
using the same Aluminator
motor. I wanted to push Q There wasn’t
the power up just to
room to fit the new
supercharger under
be at the forefront of a stock-profile hood,
horsepower in custom so Berger’s design
builds, so I went looking objective was to
for a higher performance keep the height of the
package.” That was solved hoodscoop as low as
with Edelbrock’s first possible and not to
ruin the original design
supercharged Coyote crate
with a big blower
engine that makes 750 hp. under the hood. The
Few postwar cars are Roadster Shop guys worked with the chassis to make it all fit—getting adequate ground
as iconic as the 1965-1966 clearance and keeping the hood height minimal, as both are interrelated.
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flares to support the wider
track. Initially, he wanted
the flares to blend into
the body, without a line of
demarcation at the blend.
Gray and Gerber convinced
Berger that the car would
look better if it had a
distinctive demarcation
between the body and the
flares. He went with their
advice on that one and he
was very glad he did. The
final result speaks for itself.
When it comes to the
interior, Berger deferred to
Gray and Jeremy Carlson,
owner of Avant-Garde
Design in Palm City,
Florida, and the results
are spectacular. “Again,
I was inspired by the
original GT40 interior,
especially the switches,
but with a more modern
}
Q Berger’s daily driver is a Porsche Cayenne Turbo, and it inspired the front valance. “I
liked the aggressive look and air intakes on my Cayenne,” says Berger. “We used that as a
design element on the front and we fabricated the front grille as well.
Q The sport mirrors were also
painted body color, which
was a point of contention
with the guys at the Roadster
Shop. Berger says, “I picked a
one-year-only Porsche color,
the 2010 Porsche 911 Sport
Classic Grey, and wanted a
monochromatic look for the car.
All the dark elements were a
special charcoal color that we
developed and not black.”
interpretation like found
on the 2005-2006 Ford
GT revival. The dash was
all fabricated out of metal
and Dakota Digital worked
with us on the gauges, and
we used the CNC machine
a lot. We designed and
fabricated all the switches
from scratch since buying
something off the shelf
didn’t really fit with
what we were looking to
achieve.”
Berger likes to say the
car is all show and all go.
“The Roadster Shop guys
took it to the Goodguys
show in Ohio recently
and the car had the fastest
autocross time and finished
in the top four for Street
Machine of the Year. It
was clearly built to drive
and handle with supercar

Q “I was introduced to the Edelbrock family through a client in the Trophy Truck racing world,” Berger says, “and they told me about a project they were working on. It was for a low-profile
supercharged 5.0L Coyote motor that would put out 750 hp, yet be able to run on pump gas and be reliable enough as a daily driver. So, we worked with them on the motor, and the
Vapor has the very first production Edelbrock motor in it.” The Roadster Shop guys had to work directly with Edelbrock to develop the serpentine system for power steering and the air
conditioning compressor since the motor did not come with it.

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VAPOR! { MUSTANG PRO-TOURING
performance, but candidly I
like the design, fabrication,
and building part probably
more than driving.”
Since there is so
much of his heart and
soul designed and built
into Vapor, when asked
what he thinks the car’s
most distinctive design
or engineering attribute
is, Berger says, “I think
it is how all the design
elements come together,
work together, and make
the car look and feel as if it
were designed today. It is
currently modern but still
classic, not trendy, and it
will look as good as it does
today as it will 10 years
from now. To me that is the
test for great design and
great execution. When the
car went to SEMA in 2016 it
was in the Edelbrock booth.
We were not trying to get
an award, but the Ford
designers saw the car and
spent a lot of time looking
at all the details. They gave
us a Special Recognition
Design Award for the car.”
Berger notes that Vapor
was not directly sponsored
by any of the suppliers,
although Edelbrock gave
him a break on the cost of
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}
the engine. He worked with
Forgeline on the wheels but
paid full retail for them.
For a car like the Vapor,
photos—no matter how
skillfully taken—don’t give
the car full justice. It must
be experienced in person to
fully appreciate the design,
engineering, and skill of
build quality that went into
its execution. Since Berger
gets the car out to shows, if
you have the opportunity, Q One development element that Berger felt was essential: flush door handles. But this
you should check it out was no easy task. Berger looks back at the process, saying, “I really liked the flushed
in person to see just how door handles that were on the new Aston Martin at the time and the first car to really have
them. The guys at the Roadster Shop didn’t think it would look good. I told them we needed
far Gale Halderman’s
to do it and I wanted that as a key element of my design. We looked at buying some Aston
iconic design for the Martin ones but could not make them work with the thickness of the doors and the win-
1965 Mustang fastback dow glass. That led to a very expensive design and fabrication exercise. We made a foam
can be taken. model, then a 3D-printed version, then a prototype before the final CNC-fabricated part.”
Q “Avant-Garde did the interior for the car, and I have to say that they are operating on another level in the custom interior world,” Berger
says. “Another detail you don’t notice is that the floors are flat in the car. They have the liquid material that is like the pink stuff on the end
of a pencil that is used to erase with. They get the car all jacked up and pour this stuff in, in liquid form, on the floors. They then adjust the
balance of the car so that the stuff sits level and the floors are flat. Then they soundproof and carpet over it. The car has an integrated
rollbar that does not jump out and is subtle like the rest of the build. The hand-stitched leather on the bar and interior is as good as you
would find on any Rolls-Royce.”
Q “I like to start at the rear,” says Berger. “I wanted to maintain the
classic look of the rear taillights but make them modern with LEDs. I
wanted a really refined look that flushes them out with the rear panel
rather than stick out. At the same time, the taillights needed to still be
easily recognizable as a classic Mustang. Chris Gray did an amazing
job on bringing all that together for me. I wanted to paint the back panel
black like the modern Mustangs, and then wanted to integrate the third
brake light and backup lights as well. I wanted a rear fuel filler like on the
modern Mustang GT, so we came up with a design and fabricated our
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 CORRUPTT
Tony Arme Jr. built a custom Mustang hardtop with a Ferrari F430 V-8 engine—hey, at least it’s not an LS!
ROB KINNAN T E X T • WES ALLISON P H O T O G R A P H Y

34 M U S T A N G M O N T H LY.C O M
F
ord in a Ford!
That is our standard
mantra whether talking
about a Mustang or a
1932 roadster. It’s infuriating
when we see Ford vehicles built
with non-Ford engines, especially
the latest trend of sticking a stupid
General Motors LS-series engine
in a Fox-body Mustang. That
demands an instant middle-finger
salute from any true Ford loyalist.
Then what, you may be asking,
is this thing doing in Mustang
Monthly? A 1968 Mustang hardtop
with a…cough…Ferrari engine in
it? Seriously? Yes, seriously—and
for a few reasons.
For one, the bodywork
involved in this build is radical
enough that we thought Mustang
Monthly readers might gain some
ideas for their own custom car
builds. It’s not often that you
see a chopped top on a Mustang
(rightly or wrongly). There are
so many subtle and not-so-subtle
body mods on this ’68 that they
demand some attention, and a
lot of what you’re looking at here
was 3D-printed with the “modern
fabricator’s tool.” Secondly, this
Mustang was the talk of the 2018
SEMA Show and also the 2019
Grand National Roadster Show,
the latter of which had it sitting
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among a field of the best
and most expensive custom
cars built in the last year.
Thirdly, because it creates
emotions and controversy
on both sides of the
spectrum, and that begets
conversation.
But let’s start at the
beginning. Tony Arme Jr.
runs American Legends
Hotrods and Muscle Cars
(alhotrods.com) in Phoenix,
Arizona. He bought this
1968 hardtop in 2004,
driving it for a year or so
until the engine let go, at
which point he parked it.
You know how it goes with a
non-running car—he would
stare at it occasionally and
}
come up with ideas. Tony
says, “I got the itch to chop
the top on it, and over the
next two to three years,
many modifications were
done to the car, including
the chop, a custom firewall,
QAmerican Legends custom-built the side exhausts.
steel laid-back trunk spoiler decide on which drivetrain
and quarter extensions, to stick in the Mustang. He
rear bumper, and some says, “The time and money
suspension work.” weren’t there at that point
With all that custom though, so the car sat again
bodywork done, it got to the for around 10 years.” Then
point where Tony had to inspiration struck. Tony
continues, “We decided
while at SEMA 2017 that we
would finish and debut the
car at SEMA 2018. On our
way back home, we actually
started the purchase of the
4.3L Ferrari powerplant,
and my wife, Casey, came
up with the name Corruptt,
as the idea of mixing Ford
and Ferrari was something
no one in their right mind
would combine. From that
point, we spent countless

QHere you can see the dramatic effect that a 2.5-inch chop has on a Mustang hardtop. Less noticeable are the shaved driprails, frameless side glass,
reworked and laid-down rear window, shaved wiper and cowl vent, custom side-exit exhausts, shaved door handles and locks, shaved mirrors, shaved
marker lights, custom bumpers, custom grilles, LED headlights, narrowed hood (by 1/2 inch), custom set-back sidescoops, and bigger wheel flares.

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hours working on the car
and designing, fitting, and
making all the components
to make everything work
together. As the car evolved,
we started adding more
and more special touches
to set it apart from most of
the custom Mustangs built.
From the acrylic taillights
to the one-off dash, we
tried to leave no stone
unturned.”
The body mods on
Corruptt are numerous,
as you can tell by looking
at the photos. The most
obvious is the 2.5-inch
chopped top, but less
noticeable are the flush-
mounted glass, laid-back
rear window, reworked
wheel openings, side
exhaust panels, shaved
Q Yes, that’s a Ferrari engine in a Mustang. Sacrilege! The engine is from a 2006 F430 and
everything, molded-in rear
displaces 4.3 liters; it is stock internally but stuffed full of air by a pair of Nelson Racing
bumper, scratch-built rear symmetrical T-4 turbochargers with turbo blankets from Heatshield Products to cut down
ground effects, custom on underhood heat.
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}
grilles, narrowed hood (by
½ inch), front and rear
wheel flares, and a whole
lot more.
Under the skin is a
stock Mustang chassis
upgraded with RideTech
air suspension to slam
Corruptt in the weeds
when stopped. Of course,
subframe connectors, a
custom export brace, and
front and rear interior
structural supports were
added, but Tony stopped
Q One of the first mods that Tony did to Corruptt was to create the all-steel decklid spoiler and quarter extensions.
short of throwing a
complete aftermarket
chassis under the Mustang.
The interior was the scene
of far more fabrication,
however. Between
American Legends and
Stitched Envy Interiors,
Corruptt’s cabin is loaded
with 3D-printed parts and
pieces and lots of carbon
fiber, Alcantara, vinyl, and
leather in a design that
seamlessly melds Mustang Q A Vibrant Performance catch can for the oil vapors from the dry sump and
and Ferrari. valve covers is mounted to the firewall directly behind the intake manifold.

Q The Nelson turbos feed into an intercooler before the chilled air enters the Ferrari intake through Vibrant Performance tubing and couplers with Forge Motorsport water-cooled
wastegates and blow-off valves. An AMP/EFI MS3Pro ECU controls the vitals through AMP coil packs and Taylor wires with hand-stitched leather looms. American Legends also
fab’d the 13/4-inch headers from Schedule 10 stainless steel. Flowmaster mufflers dump the exhaust.

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}

About the Ferrari

inspiration—that bright
yellow engine is a 4.3L
V-8 from a 2006 Ferrari
F430 with a pair of Nelson
Racing T-4 turbochargers,
controlled by an MS3Pro
stand-alone ECU. The
engine is otherwise stock as
built in Maranello, and with
its factory-rated power of
483 hp and 343 lb-ft, Tony
estimates that adding 8
pounds of boost from the
turbos bumps the power
level to around 700 hp. A
Tremec T-56 six-speed
manual was adapted to
the Ferrari mill and has
an S1 sequential shifter
(s1sequential.com) for
speedy shifts.
When we asked Tony,
“Why a Ferrari engine?”
He replied, “Why not?”
Fifty years after handing
Enzo Ferrari his ass at
Le Mans, Henry Ford II Q The interior combines Mustang and F430 with loads of custom work by both American Legends and Stitched Envy Interiors. The dash
may be rolling over in his was designed with CAD, and air-conditioning pods were 3D-printed and skinned in carbon fiber. The seat bases were lowered 2 inches
grave at the thought of and moved back 4 inches. The rear seat was deleted and modified to leave twin Odyssey batteries exposed. Custom billet floor mats float
off the floor and are underlit as courtesy lights. The pedals are floor-mounts from Wilwood with exposed master cylinders. A rear rollcage
one of the Italian sports
brace mounts four-point Schroth seatbelts that were dyed to match the yellow. The ’68 doors were modified to accept 1966 Pony door
car’s engines under the panels, which were covered in leather and Alcantara. The seats are from a ’66 Mustang with TMI foam and custom upholstery to go with
hood of one of Dearborn’s the door panels and mimic the Ferrari California design. Notice the iPad that is magnetically attached in the center console—it controls
finest—and many readers the entire car via Bluetooth. The wiring is from American Auto Wire, air conditioning is Vintage Air, power windows are Nu-Relics, sound
out there may be equally deadener is from Vibro Solutions, and American Legends custom-made side glass from Optic Armor. The steering wheel is from Billet
offended, but nobody can Specialties and the shifter is an S1 sequential that is a bolt-on for Tremec six-speeds.
argue that the car doesn’t
draw a crowd. And the level
of craftsmanship and use of Q The wheels are Avant Garde forged
modern technology rivals three-piece wheels, 18x8 front and 20x10
the best of the best. For that rear, with Toyo R888R tires (225 front/285
rear). The brakes are 14-inch Wilwoods
reason, Corruptt deserves a custom-painted school bus yellow to
place in a Mustang Monthly match the engine, and the Corruptt logo
issue featuring the wildest is incorporated as well. The rearend is a
of the wild. 9-inch with Yukon 4.56:1 gears.

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Rebuilding the T-5 Five-Speed Manual
Q This sensor on the transmis-
sion top cover is the neutral
indicator switch and is used by
the factory EFI system. It must
be removed before attempting
to disassemble the
transmission further.
42 M U S T A N G M O N T H LY.C O M
Mark Houlahan T E X T & P H O T O G R A P H Y
PART 1: CRACKING OPEN A USED TRANSMISSION FOR A REBUILD
AS MUSTANG OWNERS UPGRADE THE
PERFORMANCE OF THEIR RIDES,
WEAK PARTS ARE SWAPPED OUT
FOR STOUTER PIECES. This has been
Horsepower 101 for decades. When it comes
to the Fox Mustang’s T-5 five-speed, once the
horsepower goes up and the sticky rear tires
are bolted on, the T-5 will often “exit stage
right” in some noisy fashion. It is often a
broken Third gear or some stripped teeth on
the input shaft. We’ve seen all manner of
carnage over the years. The good news
is that the T-5 has been so popular
that there are plenty of parts to rebuild and
upgrade these transmissions. If you’re lucky,
you might even find a T-5 that was swapped
out before it broke. These are often sitting in
the corner of some shop under a workbench
taking up valuable room and can be had for
just a few hundred bucks. It takes a little
digging and some networking, but there are
a lot of T-5 transmissions out there ready for
a rebuild and a second life in the
tunnel of your classic Mustang
(or in your Fox project).
Why rebuild a T-5 versus,
say, buying a new transmis-
sion like a Tremec TKO-
series unit? There’s nothing
wrong with the TKO transmissions;
they’re built to take the abuse behind
high-horsepower engines and are proven
winners in many racing circles. However,
they have a larger profile than the T-5, which
can cause some fitment issues in classic
Mustangs (especially the ’65-’66 models),
and of course you have that new transmission
price tag to go with it. If you’re on a budget, or
perhaps already have a T-5 lying around from
a barter deal or other project, then rebuilding
it is going to be the most economic route, and
the smaller size of the T-5 means no fitment
issues either. Pretty much the only limiting
factor of using the T-5 is its power-handling
capability. For our typical reader with a “bolt-
on” small-block that runs radial street tires
and doesn’t drag race with super sticky tires,
the T-5 is a great solution.
Rebuilding the T-5 does take a few shop
tools, including a press, snap-ring pliers,
and pullers, most of which you can find at
discount tool stores if you don’t already have
them, or hit up a friend with such tools to
lend you a hand. Worst case, you can take
the parts to a machine shop to be pressed
off and on. Other than these few tools, the
breakdown and rebuilding of the typical T-5
takes nothing more than some metric hand-
tools and a whole lot of elbow grease getting
everything clean to put the transmission back
together. We visited our friend David
Piercey at his shop, David Piercey’s
Mustang Performance, located in
Thonotosassa, Florida ( just outside
of Tampa). David is a wizard with the
T-5 five-speed, having built every-
thing from stock rebuilds to all-out
race boxes. His selection of T-5 cores
meant we could provide some T-5
history/identification in this story
as well, which we’ll show in Part 2.
While we won’t be using it until
reassembly next month, we made
a quick call to our friends at Ford
Performance Parts for an M-7000-A
Q Remove the four fasteners retaining the shifter assembly
T-5 Rebuild Kit. The M-7000-A has Q With the neutral switch removed, the top cover bolts to the tailshaft housing and separate it with a small prybar or
just about everything you need for can be removed. There are two shoulder bolts that locate screwdriver and set the shifter aside. If the shifter bushing
the typical rebuild of a 1985-1995 the cover, but otherwise all the bolts are the same length. comes out with the shifter, don’t worry about it; the Ford
Mustang five-speed. Just remove the bolts for now. Performance kit comes with a new one.

Q Using a pin punch, drive the roll pin down through the shift block in the tailshaft Q Remove the tailshaft housing fasteners, being extra careful that you haven’t missed any
housing. It doesn’t need to go all the way through, but it does need to clear the shift before moving on to separating the housing from the main transmission body.
shaft so that the shift block can be pulled free with the tailshaft housing itself.

Q Separate the tailshaft housing from the main body, but don’t pull back on it. An Q Now that the tailshaft housing and shift block are free of the main transmission body,
easy way to handle this is with a rubber mallet or dead-blow plastic hammer. Once you can remove the top cover, which includes the shift forks and shifter shaft. Pry at the
separated, pry the tailshaft housing back while simultaneously applying downward cover gently to separate the sealer and set the cover aside.
pressure to the shift block to remove the shift block and tailshaft housing together.

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Q Once we had the cover off this T-5, you could see the
shift fork pads were all but destroyed. This is common
from overextending the shift forks during hard shifting
and from resting your hand on the shifter while driving. A
quality aftermarket shifter with adjustable shift stops will
prevent this and is highly recommended.
Q The input shaft bearing retainer is removed from the front
of the main case next. This is retained by four bolts and
holds the input shaft’s front bearing race, shaft seal, and
preload shim that sits behind the bearing race. More on that
next month during our reassembly.

Q Moving to the rear of the

transmission assembly, the
speedometer drive gear is
removed next. It is retained
to the output shaft by a
spring clip. Simply depress
the clip and slide the plastic
drive gear off. A new retain-
ing clip is included in the
rebuild kit.
Q With the bearing retainer removed, the input shaft can
be extricated from the main case. As you rotate it you’ll
see a crescent-shaped cutout on the shaft. This has to be
lined up with the cluster gear to allow the input shaft to
come forward and out of the case. Some transmissions
use roller bearings (that might fall out during this step)
and others use a caged bearing. Just keep track of what
yours uses and take lots of pictures as you work.
 Q Remove this snap ring and the shield behind it on the Fifth gear synchro.

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Q Having disassembled everything forward and aft

Q Support the Fifth gear shift shaft with a block of wood
and drive out the retaining pin for the shift fork. Pull the shift
fork and Fifth gear synchro assembly off the shift shaft.
Q With the Fifth gear synchro out of the way, the Fifth
gear drive gear and blocker ring can be removed next.
of the main case itself, the large mainshaft assembly
should lift right out as shown. Give it a little wiggle to
unseat the tapered roller bearing at the rear of the case,
and use your other hand to guide the rear of the shaft up
and out of the case.

Q Now to continue with the remaining pieces within the main case. Q Once the shift rail is out of the way, you can carefully
Disconnect the spring found at the front of the Reverse shift rail and pull rotate the shift rail block and remove it as well.
the shift rail out of the back of the case.

Q To remove the cluster-gear shaft the rear retainer must be removed first. This is held in place by a tabbed lock plate. With the
main case on end, use a hammer and chisel to beat the lock tabs far enough away to allow removal of the four Torx fasteners.

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Q Another roll pin retains the Reverse idler shaft and gear. Drive it through the shaft until the pin is free.

Q Pull the idler shaft from the case while keeping a hand on the
Reverse idler gear so that it can be removed as well once the shaft
is free of the gear. This completes the main case disassembly. David
sends all the case hard parts out locally to Bullfrog Performance
(bullfrogperformance.net), where its in-house machine shop hot-
tanks and cleans all of the aluminum housing components.
Q All that is left to take apart now is the output shaft. Hopefully your T-5
does not have any gear damage and all you’ll be doing here is pulling
everything apart for new synchro blocker rings and bearings. Here the
3-4 synchro and Third gear drive gear are pried off the output shaft with
two large screwdrivers. These will usually come free as shown, but in
some instances a press plate and hydraulic press will need to be used.

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Q (Left) While the aluminum case bits were sent out,
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HOW-TO Dave Stribling T E X T & P H O T O G R A P H Y

In the Doghouse
THE RIGHT WAY TO INSTALL A DYNACORN FRONT STRUCTURE
ONE OF THE GREAT ADVANTAGES OF The patient for our demo install was in a
THE POPULARITY OF THE MUSTANG major incident on a highway—an overzeal-
IS THE FACT THAT COMPLETE SUB- ous troll pulled in front of this 1967 hardtop
ASSEMBLIES ARE NOW AVAILABLE FOR and proceeded to slam on the brakes. Using
MAJOR STRUCTURAL REPAIRS. But how proper defensive driving techniques, the
do we do it in our home garage and come owner slammed on the Wilwoods and made
away with something that tracks down the some evasive moves, which resulted in saving
road straight? We’re here to show you the others around him but taking off the front
the process. end and right quarter of the Mustang. Nor-
mally with damage this
severe in sunny SoCal
you would just go get
another car, but this one
has been in the family
since new, so it is time for
some major work.
In the past, we would
go cut an entire clip from
another car in the yard,
but those sources are
all but dried up. Enter
Dynacorn International.
While the quarter-panel
of the car was replaced
with an N.O.S. part
found online, the front
end is being replaced
with Dynacorn’s Apron
assemblies (PN 3630R
and PN 3630S), radia-
tor support (PN 3640F),
Q Although this is an extreme strut rod brackets (PN 3640FAWT and PN
situation, there are times 3640FBWT), and firewall to floor supports
when complete front framerail
(PN 3631ZEWT).
assemblies are a better choice
than repairing individual panels.
When the framerail is com- Preparation Is Key
pletely rusted out, sometimes Whether you plan on doing this by your-
it is easier to replace the whole
assembly rather than to cut out self or with a little help, do all your homework
the bad parts. before trying to weld parts in place. Since this
car was in an accident and was severely bent,
we chose to have the remaining body checked
Q Dynacorn sells complete out by a local frame shop. The dimensions
front rails and aprons already for your Mustang can be found in the body
preassembled. The complete
front end can be replaced using section of your Ford factory shop manuals; we
the company’s radiator support, also had a copy of the dimensions from a body
framerail extensions, and strut shop manual, and you might luck out and find
rod mounts. them online.

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Q The first thing you need to acquire: the correct frame dimensions for your car. The Q Preparation is king. With the old metal removed, we found a buckle on the passenger-
body shop manual for your year has these dimensions (1969 shown here), and they side firewall, so we straightened it and re-measured before we began installing the front
are available aftermarket—you might even find them online. end. Note that in 1967 there was no passenger-side torque box on a hardtop—only on the
driver side.

Q Doing this on your garage floor, you want to make sure the car is level before
beginning. Since most garage floors are not level, one way you can level your car is
to get four of these screw-type jacks from the salvage yard. They will allow you much
more adjustment than just jackstands alone. Always use safety stands along with the Q The outer rockers are the one place that you can measure for a level car.
adjustable jacks. Take a measurement in all four rail corners with an angle gauge.

Q Professional body shops have these tram gauges for measuring the straightness Q Part of our preparation was to square the body and install the N.O.S. quarter-panel on
and how true the frame is. You can make yourself one (shown on the bottom) using the passenger side along with a new Dynacorn taillight panel (PN 3643E). Unibodies get
a piece of conduit, a couple of couplers that will slide on the conduit, and a couple of their strength from the welded panels, so this will help keep the body from flexing.
pieces of threaded rod with a ground point. The cost is less than $10.

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If you are doing this in your
garage, note that garage floors are not
level by design. They generally slope
to get rid of water. You either need to
level your car or square up the body
with the floor angles in mind. Safety
is always a concern, so make sure you
have plenty of safety stands before
proceeding. A cheap leveling system
can be made from a set of scissor-
type jacks from the local salvage
yard—you can use them to correct
for variations in the floor. Always use
safety stands with the scissor jacks.
One place on the body that is parallel
to the floor is the rocker panels—take
your measurements from the four
corners of the outer rocker panels to Q Preparation for the installation takes longer than the actual installation of the panels. Here a strap was used along
assist in leveling the body. If you can- with clamps and Clecos to get the panels in place. Extra safety jacks will also help.
not level the body, you may need to
have the car straightened before you
weld new panels in place.
If possible, photograph every-
thing before you start taking things
apart. Items like the strut braces
sometimes don’t go back in the same
place. Take additional measure-
ments to add to the factory drawings.
Remember, cars that are rusted,
wrecked, or have endured 50-plus
years of road use are usually not in
the same position they were when
they left the factory. If you have some
friends’ cars that are available, take
some measurements off of those cars
too. There is some variance on how
Ford put these together, and you Q Master fabricator Randy Domeck begins by checking the diagonal square of the front end by a point on the cowl to
don’t want to use just one example the front opposite side of the front aprons. Note that he has installed the export brace that the owner will be using when
because it may have suffered from the car is completed.
one of the above issues.
Finally, while we didn’t get the
chance to do this, do one panel or
section at a time. Don’t just start
hacking off all the parts. A rusted part
may still be a good guide for installing
the replacement part, and once you
take off more than one panel you lose
that reference point.

Aftermarket Parts
A quick note about aftermarket
parts: Your car went through 50-plus
years of torture, and the aftermarket
parts are good but may not be per-
fect—you may experience some holes
not lining up. News flash: some of
the holes on the factory panels didn’t Q A quick note about the export brace: In this scenario, we have a wrecked car, aftermarket frame assemblies, and
line up either. I once took a part that an aftermarket export brace—something is not going to line up perfectly! The original shock tower braces were much
wouldn’t fit one car, and then I took more forgiving than the export brace, so you may have to “influence” something to make it all fit.

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}
it over to another car—it fit worse.
Sometimes it is the car as well as the
part. Be patient.

Export Braces
Shelby-style braces are obviously
much stronger and less flexible than
the originals (and have less adjust-
ment). Some of the aftermarket
braces are not very good quality, so
make sure you have a good one. Al-
ways use your export or shock tower
braces to help center the shock
tower assemblies.

Tram and Measuring

Pro shops have some really nice Q Squared and welded on. The new frame extensions
gauges to measure the squareness of went in right over the existing spots from the originals.
the body. You can make one yourself
out of some conduit and threaded
rod that will do the job. Make sure Q Although we did make sure all was level, our install at the
you are measuring from the same top and bottom apron mounts were perfectly flush to the
point on your gauge. For example, firewall. Always a good sign.
choose the side of the hole edge
rather than trying to measure from
the center. Make sure you mirror
your measurement to the other side.
If you need to, you can use some
string and a weight (a nut works
great) to create a vertical line to
check side measurement from the
holes listed on the Ford drawing. If
the car is elevated enough, you can
mark the string at the Ford distance Q About the strut rod mount location: I have seen them
and then check these marks with hanging over like this one, and I have seen them flush
your level. Q Double-check all measurements. The lower control arm with the edge of the framerail—and everywhere in
points are 191/8 inches wide center to center, and we’re right between. The dimension for this piece isn’t on the Ford
on the money. dimension drawing for 1967.
Strut Rod Braces
The strut rod braces serve two
purposes: They provide the mount-
ing point for the strut rod bushings,
and they provide rigidity to the front
end by bracing the side rail and
radiator support. Once these go in,
they really lock the front down. If
you need to make any small tweaks
to the front end or rails, do it before
these go in. The dimensions for
these are not on the factory dimen-
sion chart, and I have seen them
mounted with a lot of variance.
Mark where your originals were
mounted prior to removing them
or use several examples to find the
location from other cars. The front
suspension pieces can be mounted
and squared to help locate these Q Here Randy is making sure the front is square to the corner and even on both sides. You can do some minor tweaking
pieces as well. of the front before the strut rod mounts are installed; once they are on it isn’t moving.

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Assembly
Once all your preparation is done,
the assembly usually goes quickly.
You will need plenty of body clamps,
Cleco pins, and straps to hold it all
together until it is welded in place.
After the first few tack welds are in
place, double-check (and continue to
double-check) your measurements.
We added a set of Tin Man Fabrica-
tion subframe connectors to our
hardtop, and they fit the squared-up
chassis perfectly. For a job like this,
it is possible to do it yourself—just
remember that preparation is 75
percent of the job and patience
is necessary.
Q We have other cars to take dimensions from (use an average of several cars, not just one other example), and one
other thing you can do is install the front suspension components, making sure that the strut rod runs parallel to the

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Q You can use some

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weights hung from the
points noted in the dimen-
sions, and then let Isaac
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rails. Note that cotton string
stretches, so double-check
your measurements if you
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HOW-TO Richard Holdener T E X T & P H O T O G R A P H Y { CAM UPGRADE
}

The Dynamic Duo

DYNO-TESTING CYLINDER HEADS AND A CAM UPGRADE ON A 5.0L ENGINE
THE WORD NOSTALGIA MEANS 5.0L LX back in the late ’80s, and though they
DIFFERENT THINGS TO DIFFERENT both shared the same heritage, they couldn’t
PEOPLE. Sure, we look back longingly at all have been more different. The K-code had all
those wonderful classic and muscle cars that the right stuff, including a manual four-speed
got away, but do we remember them as being trans, 9-inch rearend, and all the popular
at least a little more fantastic than they re- Shelby mods to the Hi-Po 289, including
ally were? Case in point, Ford’s little pony- the tri-Y headers, aluminum high-rise, and
car—the marvelous Mustang. Your author Holley carb. Basically, it was as hot a 289 as
was lucky enough to simultaneously own a you could get from the factory. With ample
pristine 1965 K-code Mustang and a new 1988 gears out back, the little Mustang was plenty
quick, but low and behold, the 5.0L
LX would kick the crap out of the
mid-’60s muscle car. Not only was
it quicker and a lot faster, it offered
lower emissions, better mileage,
and rode and drove better thanks
to decades of technology.
Fast-forward 25-30 years, and
the new Coyote owners must think
the same thing about the now-
classic 5.0L Fox-bodies, which are
currently seeing interest from the
restoration crowd. Guys are now
scouring junkyards for all those
missing air silencers we tossed
in the garbage back in the day!
Though it’s hard to compare the
original 225hp 5.0L 302 with the
Q Bolting more power on new Coyote, that doesn’t mean the
your carbureted 302 is as original is any less desirable (or
easy as swapping the cylin- popular) than it was in its heyday.
der heads and camshaft. In fact, nothing responded as well
to performance modifications as
Q The test engine was a the 5.0L Mustang. Though Ford’s
stock, rebuilt 302 that fea- ponycar had already been around
tured a late-model hydraulic
for two decades, it can be argued
roller block stuffed with cast
internals. Nothing special that the 5.0L Mustang (especially
here—just your average the EFI stuff that began in 1986)
5.0L 302. is what actually kick-started Ford
Performance. The little Mustang
ushered in an unprecedented level
of performance, starting an entire
industry that revolved around
everything Mustang. While it’s
true that the modern Coyote is
more powerful than the first 5.0L,
one thing the original has that the

60 M U S T A N G M O N T H LY.C O M
Coyote never will is tremendous
aftermarket support. How many
aftermarket heads are there for the
Coyote, or cam profiles, or intake
manifolds? Yes, when it comes to
modifications, the original 5.0L
Mustang is still king.
All this talk about modifications is
obviously bringing us to a point, or at
least a dyno test, right? What story on
the 5.0L would be complete without
us making extra power? To that end,
we decided to hop up a 5.0L Mustang,
but in a twist of fate, we actually
started this 302 Ford with carbure-
tion. Fear not, as we will introduce
fuel injection back to the fuelie-Ford
in another test, but for now, let’s take Q The production block featured two-bolt mains, but as we all know, the strength limitation was not in the main caps.
a look at the power gains offered by These blocks split from the main webbing up to the cam tunnel. We fit the 302 with a standard-volume oil pump and
upgrading the cylinder heads and pickup to match the production 5.0L oil pan.
camshaft. For our test, we relied on
a rebuilt 302 that included a produc-
tion 5.0L (hydraulic-roller) block,
cast internals, and the ubiquitous
E7TE iron heads. Also present were
the factory bolt-down, stamped-steel
roller rockers and production hy-
draulic-roller 5.0L (stick) camshaft.
Basically, we had a 5.0L roller long-
block that required finishing with an
oiling and induction system. To finish
things off, we added a Fox-chassis oil
pan, pickup, and standard-volume
oil pump, along with a Speedmaster
dual-plane intake and low-buck (but
effective) 650-cfm Holley Brawler
carburetor. Also present were an
MSD distributor and Hooker long-
tube (Fox-chassis) 1¾-inch headers
with collector extensions. Run in
this manner with 35 degrees of total
timing, the stock(ish) 302 produced
252 hp at 4,700 rpm and 328 lb-ft of
torque at 3,700 rpm. Q The 5.0L featured factory E7TE iron heads. Not known for stellar flow, the
After running the 302 equipped stock heads certainly limited the power production of the combination.
with the stock heads and cam-
shaft, we decided to upgrade both
to dramatically improve power.
Though a single-plane intake might
offer better peak power, we elected
to stick with the dual-plane and
Brawler carb, since the idea was to
build the engine for street (rather
than strip) use. Knowing we wanted
drivability and manners to go along
with our extra power, we chose our
combination accordingly. First up
was a set of aluminum heads from Q The stock iron heads were run with produc- Q We did like the double-roller timing
BluePrint Engines (BPE). The BPE tion bolt-down, stamped-steel rockers. chain included on the rebuilt 302.

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heads feature full CNC porting, 205cc Q Run on the dyno with a polished Speedmaster dual-
intake ports, and a 2.08/1.60 valve plane Eliminator intake, Hooker long-tube headers, and an
MSD distributor, the stock(ish) 302 produced 252 hp at
package. In truth, the CNC-ported 4,700 rpm and 328 lb-ft of torque at 3,700 rpm.
205 heads were probably overkill for
our mild application, but we liked
the idea of having them should we
look to push the power level up even
further in the future. The heads were
combined with one of our favor-
ite street-performance cams, the
Comp XE274HR. The streetable but

Q After running the stock heads and cam on the 302, we

decided to upgrade the combination, starting with these
CNC-ported 205 heads from BluePrint Engines.

Q The BPE ported heads featured 62cc CNC-machined

chambers and a 2.08/1.60 valve package.

Q Off came the stock iron heads to make way for the
ported BPE aluminum heads. Note the 302 came equipped
with four-eyebrow pistons with a small center dish. We
even reused the head gaskets and head bolts.
extremely effective Xtreme-Energy
cam profile offered a .555/.565-split
lift, a 224/232-degree duration, and a Q Back behind the cam
112-degree lobe separation angle. The gear on the timing chain
cam has proven itself to work well on were the two bolts holding
naturally aspirated, blower, turbo, and the cam retaining plate.
nitrous applications. After removal of the
Swapping the cam required
hydraulic-roller lifters, out
came the wimpy factory
removal of the rockers, pushrods and 5.0L camshaft.
hydraulic-roller lifters. Naturally, we
also removed the cast-iron cylinder
heads to make way for the new BPE
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was a fresh rebuild, we reused both
the head gaskets and head bolts,
though we like to upgrade to ARP
studs just in case we decide to run
nitrous or boost (foreshadowing,
yo!). For our engine, we selected the
BPE heads designed for bolt-down,
pedestal-mount rockers. We replaced
the stock stamped-steel rockers with
a set of pedestal-mount, 1.6-ratio,
aluminum roller rockers from Comp
Cams. The new heads and rock-
ers required installation of a set of
6.30-inch hardened pushrods. After
installation of the new hardware,
we ran the engine once again on the
dyno with the dual-plane intake and
Q To help the little 5.0L produce more power, we installed an XE274HR cam from Comp Cams.
Holley carb. Equipped with the new
The XE274HR featured a .555/.565-split lift, a 224/232-degree split duration, and a 112-degree
heads and cam, the modified 5.0L lobe separation angle that should give the engine a good, calm idle.

Q Comp Cams also supplied a set of bolt-down, adjustable, pedestal-mount roller Q We once again relied on the Speedmaster dual-plane intake to feed our
rockers. The rockers were combined with a set of 6.30-inch hardened pushrods. modified combo.

Q Run on the dyno after installation of the

Comp cam and BPE aluminum heads, the
302 produced 385 hp at 6,200 rpm and
368 lb-ft of torque at 4,300 rpm. The head
Q This 650-cfm Holley Brawler carb might be the best-kept secret in the and cam upgrade improved the power
performance industry. This thing performs like the big boys for a fraction of output through the entire rev range, with
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RESTOROUNDUP Bob Perkins T E X T { RESTORATION QUESTIONS
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BARE OR PAINTED?
I have a 1969 Mustang Boss 302
that was built in May of 1969. Is the
transmission crossmember sup-
posed to be painted a specific shade
of black or is it left bare steel? I
have seen both. What is correct?
Bob Sina
Florence, Kentucky

The transmission crossmember is a bare

stamped-steel piece that was installed with the
drivetrain; thus, it would not be painted or have
overspray.

DUAL REDLINES
I need a set of 6.95x14 Dual Red-
line tires for my 1966 Mustang GT
fastback. I have sourced three differ-
ent brands: BFGoodrich, U.S. Royal,
and Coker. Is one brand any more
desirable than the others? I noticed
your black ’66 has U.S. Royal.
Bill Brantmeier
Ames, Iowa
I would recommend U.S. Royal
brand 6.95x14 Dual Redline tires
because they were the original brand
Ford used in 1965 and 1966 on the
Mustang. They would be the most
correct version of the tire for your
Mustang GT fastback.
BOSS EMBLEMS
I recently purchased a pair of Boss 429 valve cover emblems from a retired
Ford mechanic at our local swap meet. He said they were from a warranty repair
engine back in the day. Is there a way to verify original from reproduction? I
put them in my display case for now. If they are real they probably belong on an
original Boss 429.
Johnny Adler
Omaha, Nebraska
Your emblems appear to be genuine Ford parts. Originals were anodized on
both sides like the one you supplied in your picture. Reproductions are painted blue
on the backside, like the one shown here. These are a nice find!

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WIRING REDUX
he wiring under the dash
of my Mustang is a mess
from past owners cutting
into it for power needs,
and they also put a big
stereo in it. At the rear they also cut
into the rear harness for trailer lights
at one time. Which wiring harness
should I get to replace all of this mess?
Frank F.
Jacksonville, Florida
Welcome to the world that many
of us have had to endure. Not only
are these 50-plus-year-old wiring
harnesses subject to corrosion, but
previous owners almost always find a
way to make the wires look like they
went through a food processor. The
answer to your question depends on
what you plan on doing with the car—
that will determine which harness is
best for you.
For high-end concours cars,
restored original or N.O.S. is the
way to go. Restoring your original
harness can be done, and you may
have to buy one or two used harnesses
to get the connectors you need to do
the job yourself. The advantage of
doing this for a concours car is that
the connectors and harness wires are
ready for judging; the disadvantage
is you still have wiring that is 55-plus
Q Your typical Medusa’s-nest underdash harness with cut wires and missing connectors. It is very time consuming (and expensive if you pay someone to do it) to strip this
down, clean all the contacts, and make the repairs to the cut and missing wires. New harnesses are available for most applications.
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Dave Stribling TEXT { VINTAGE TECH ADVICE
years old, and the task of going through
and cleaning all the terminals and
repairing all the broken lines is very
time consuming.
The next step is the replacement
stock harnesses from the Mustang
vendors. I have used these and have
never had a problem, and for all but the
high-end concours cars they are great.
If you change out all the harnesses
on your car, this is currently the most
costly route, but it eliminates the issues
of new versus old wiring, and it also
minimizes connections. Although the
selection is getting bigger every year,
not every harness is available for first-
gen cars, so you may have to combine
old and new.
The aftermarket wiring harnesses
are the best choice if you plan on
running big stereos, fuel injection,
electric fans, or other aftermarket
upgrades. The original five or so fuses
are definitely not the way to go when
upgrading the car. The aftermarket
systems are designed for bigger power
output and modern goodies. When
choosing an aftermarket harness,
look for a harness that uses as many
of the Ford original connectors as
possible. Some of the harnesses are
generic harnesses or setups used in
GM products, and they want you to
convert to their system rather than
adapting to the Ford system. Also, the
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more connections you have to make
(crimping terminals), the more chances
of having a bad connection. The more
connections the harness-makers make
on their machines, the less chance
of a problem down the road for you.
Individual spade terminals in place
of the original Ford connection block
is a bad way to go. For more info on
underdash and other wiring, check
out the following archive info on
Mustang-360.com:
• Mustang-360.com/how-to/
interior-electrical/mump-0401-how-
to-install-new-ford-mustang-wiring-
harness
• Mustang-360.com/how-to/
interior-electrical/1812-wiring-tips-
and-tricks
Q This new harness from American Autowire comes
with a fuse block ready for any of your modern conve-
niences ,and the company is very good about using as
many of the original-style connectors as possible. You
will still need to develop good crimping skills to make
the harness fit.
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Baby Blu Driveway Resto

G K
rowing up in the ’70s, Jennifer Broadstreet Hess of
Marion, Kansas, thought it was normal to attend
car shows and peruse used car lots with her dad
and older brother. Hearing stories of her dad’s ’65 Mustang
convertible that he bought new (and later sold to start a
family) inspired Jennifer to dream of owning a Mustang of
her own one day. The ’67 hardtop you see here was found
by her dad in 1987. After a short testdrive she had to have
it, and 32 years later it is still hers. Over the last three
decades it’s been a daily driver and weekend cruiser, while
being maintained and worked on bit by bit. In 2004, “Baby
Blu” went under the knife for rust and structural repairs
and a repaint. In 2005, Jennifer’s husband surprised her
with a rebuilt 289. She tells us upcoming work will include
updating the interior and dash.
athy Westerman of Ocklawaha, Florida, says this
1965 hardtop was “on the brink of death” when she
found it in November of 2016. Her son Keith, a UTI
graduate, restored Kathy’s hardtop into the dream Mustang
that she’d always wanted, right in their driveway. He rebuilt
the 302ci V-8 engine with Edelbrock aluminum heads, a
Lunati camshaft, and a Holley intake and carburetor.
Backing the V-8 is a C4 automatic, and tri-Y headers with
Flowmaster mufflers expel the exhaust. Keith handled the
interior, replacing the floors, core support, battery apron,
and cowl. He saved the repaint job for David Stark of Stark
Industries in Ocala, Florida, and the hardtop is now Kathy’s
preferred hue of Twilight Turquoise.

T-Top II

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illiam Sanseverino of Las
Vegas, Nevada, is no stranger
to Reader’s Album, hav-
ing submitted several of his
previous Mustangs over the
many years he’s enjoyed Mustang Monthly. His
latest acquisitions include an EcoBoost-powered
’16 convertible and his 1978 Mustang II King Cobra
pictured here. Having previously owned several
Mustang IIs, he sold his most recent King Cobra in
2014 to find a replacement with T-tops. It took 2½
years, but he scored this Polar White King Cobra on
eBay. Besides the requisite T-tops, this King Cobra
is fully loaded, with just as many options cost-wise
as the base price of the whole car! William went
through the car, fixing rust and other body issues
before fresh paint and graphics, while the interior
just needed a deep cleaning. An engine rebuild to
stock specs (except for an Edelbrock intake and
four-barrel for better drivability) finished the
project. “I call it my little ‘conversation piece,’ as it
sparks a conversation while I’m at a stoplight, at the
gas pump, or a restaurant parking lot,” says William.

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Shelby at Sebring, 1964

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his historic Daytona is the first of
only six built, and the only one built
entirely in the U.S. It is a survivor
and lives comfortably in the world-
renowned Simeone Foundation
Automotive Museum in Penn-
sylvania. Number 2287 also set 23 world speed
records at the Bonneville Salt Flats in 1965, and
then soon after it was hidden away and untouched
for 30 years before it was discovered in a California
storage facility in 2000 (after the owner lit herself
on fire, committing suicide). A legal battle ensued
and CSX2287 went up for sale. Fred Simeone was
the high bidder at $4 million. Fred wisely chose
to leave the car “unrestored,” so CSX2287 retains
its patina and colorful history, and no doubt my
father’s and everyone else’s DNA still resonating
inside. Estimated value today is $25 million!

Q From right to left: Rich; his sister, Vicki; Fred Simeone; and Rich’s mother, Sherry.

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