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Senile Old Fart
I bought this 65 coupe to put a late model engine and trans in and make the wife a fair weather dd.
By chance an apprentice from our Local called me about a wrecked 01 GT belonging to his brother in law.
Long story short - I bought it for a donor car for the 65.
Next I started researching the 4.6 engine swap. I came across Bob Jullians project the SN65. With a lot of time spent on google and right click /save as action I was able to get a hundred or so photos of Bobs project.
One thing led to another and I committed to building a low budget version of Bob's over the top SN65.
That is the story of how I got to this point. I'm not much of a photographer but I will try and keep a log of progress photos of this undertaking.
Don't expect a fast pace on this project, its been 2 years getting to it current point. I work construction and often work out of town, or 10-12 hr days, or 6-7 days a week or often all of the aforementioned to make schedule.
The plan was to do it in SPI white base and UV clear. now the wife is thinking she wants a gun metal metallic. Oh well, as we all know women are fickle.
Here is the 65 the day I bought it:
Current condition of the 65:
Today's task is to continue to prep the 65 to accept the 01 "chassis". Another exciting day of drilling spot welds along with measure, remeasure, then measure again before taking the skinny wheel or recip saw to it.
By chance an apprentice from our Local called me about a wrecked 01 GT belonging to his brother in law.
Long story short - I bought it for a donor car for the 65.
Next I started researching the 4.6 engine swap. I came across Bob Jullians project the SN65. With a lot of time spent on google and right click /save as action I was able to get a hundred or so photos of Bobs project.
One thing led to another and I committed to building a low budget version of Bob's over the top SN65.
That is the story of how I got to this point. I'm not much of a photographer but I will try and keep a log of progress photos of this undertaking.
Don't expect a fast pace on this project, its been 2 years getting to it current point. I work construction and often work out of town, or 10-12 hr days, or 6-7 days a week or often all of the aforementioned to make schedule.
The plan was to do it in SPI white base and UV clear. now the wife is thinking she wants a gun metal metallic. Oh well, as we all know women are fickle.
Here is the 65 the day I bought it:
Current condition of the 65:
Today's task is to continue to prep the 65 to accept the 01 "chassis". Another exciting day of drilling spot welds along with measure, remeasure, then measure again before taking the skinny wheel or recip saw to it.
