Ripper's Majic Bus

I have a friend up here in Minnesnowta with a 68 Mustang 302 Fastback with rotted floors. He's working on getting the rest of the car running, but either the floors are too far gone or he's too lazy to fix it, and wants to swap his running gear into a fresh body. Anyone know of any for sale?

They're tough to come by. good luck. All the wannabee's are using them for Eleanor kits.

I know where he could get a 71-73 Mach 1, but i don't think tht will work.

Goodluck with that, every meat head in the country thinks they're worth 10 grand rusted to shit. sad sad days.

Easier to patch the floors then to pull the running gear, lot less costly in the end too.

You can get a new '67 Mustang Fastback body from Dynacorn for $15,500 and have it crated for $495. Saw it in Hot Rod.

For 10K I'll do his floors

Thanks guys.

I can't believe they want 2 grand more than the camaro crate body.

Fastback is all the hype. I can't say much I always did like them better even on the 80's models. The prices are market driven people want them they have to pay more.

Woody, how talented is your friend?

Thats why I like the cougars. Its a mustang with style for less money.

Why?? If he dances for you will you do it for free ??

With welding? Probably not very. If it has nuts and bolts, he can take it apart and put it back together. Anything he can't do, one of his millions of brothers can.

Yea, if you want your new 1967 Fastback Mustang to be made in CHINA. Ugh, I'll pass.

Seriously, it's easy to weld floors in, hell I managed to do it, withing fucking it up.

-RM

Really who carse where its made if its made to spec using all the proper guage metal etc. But going by China's track record I'd be leary too.

The floors you welded in were made in china.

Actually, they weren't, they were made in Canada, which I deem as a whole to be much, much, better than China.

Ohh ya? Where did you find those?


Doesn't matter anyways. Floorpans are floorpans. I cut mine to fit the way I wanted them to fit and the look exactly like the ones I pulled out and are the same thickness. They will be just as strong if not stronger then what ford had originally.

This is the general opinion of most of those that have firsthand experience with dynacore bodies. After all, technology has come a long long way in the past fourty years. Even the steel alloys are better today than they were 40 years ago. But perhaps RM has some first hand knowledge to which we mere peons are not privy. I think it just pisses some people off that to make something like this economically feasable it pretty much has to be made in China.

Perhaps they are better bodies than in 1967. Hell, the floor I welded in was of a higher quality steel than my body from 1963. That doesn't really bother me much, because it's a geniune classic. These things aren't even classics and furthermore, they're being in made in China. So, not only are they not even true classics, but they're being produced in a country with a fucked up moral system and pay scale.

-RM

Yawn...

Careful Cid, we wouldn't want you to fall off that high horse of yours and get hurt.

"pay scale" is an economically relative term. And that's a subject worthy a dissertation in and of itself and I'll leave that to people like my brother in law with PhD's in economics. And hell, the moral system of THIS country has become fucked up in my opinion. So, if your objection is that it offends you in that it some how desecrates the original because it's both new or not a part of the original production and that it is made in a place you don't like for political or personal reasons, that's fine, just say so up front. Hell, I avoid Citgo for about the same damn reasons. But I don't slam the quality of their gas or slam people that use it. I just continue my personal boycott and let people know why when asked.

Personally, I think cars like this could be showing up on race tracks for classic cars where the fields are getting thinner and thinner because the originals are becoming too valuable to risk. And watching old Mustangs and Camaros battle it out Trans-Am style is they way I like racing. That's what drew me to MCO in the first place. And if these bodies get popular that'll surely bring their price down further making it easier more likely to see these old beauties championed at road tracks and drag strips everywhere.

It's also my belief that this will only help keep those originals out there original because people wanting to make modified versions will have an affordable base body option to modify to their heart's content. And no one is going to complain about replica bodies being modified like they do originals. I get grief all the time when I talk about the mods planned for my '68 Impala.

Huh?



Anyways... Its the style and personally that draws me to classic cars. These "chinese made" mustangs allow for classic trans am racing without the destruction of a real one. I agree with zardoz, I see potential in this.