Today when I was driving to work I noticed that a fuzzball appeared on the left side of my hood. 
Whoops.
Whoops....
Two days ago on Ebay I bought a '70 Mustang fastback sight unseen in WI an hour away from my folks. My coupe needs roof work and for ballpark the price of these repairs I'd rather just convert the car to a fastback (yes, I know it isn't an equivalent job). It appears that the one I bought was a rare-option 'grabber special' is one of nine known to exist; but I can't say for sure until I get a Marti report. The administrator of the linked Grabber registry seems to think it is, but we'll have to see. I now have an immense project.
If it is a "grabber" I can convert the car back to stock and have something rare, but I'll need to get a '70 donor car to make that happen.
The other more appealing option is use my '69's parts and make a Boss 302 clone--the 'scoopless' rear quarters, unique in '69 (amongst teh fastbacks) for the Boss 302, would make my car look pretty convincing. And nowadays, ford is offering a new tooling of the original Boss 4-bolt main block, and the rest is all out there supported by aftermarket. Yeah, I'm dreaming, but why not?
5 comments:
Uh, dude.
Sell your '69 and pour your entire lifeblood into that grabber special. Anything that's one of nine known to exist will buy you a retirement home on Lake Mendota. Someone recently bought the unrestored, engineless hulk of a Pontiac Tempest Super Duty, one of six known to exist (the fastest car in the world in 1963), for north of 200 grand.
Well, okay, maybe not a retirement home; but you get the idea. Figure out what that thing is worth: it might be more than you think.
link to aformentioned tempest:
http://forum.mnautox.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10509
It is actually a complete mystery what grabbers are worth...though I have been bit<& - slapping goggle for the past two days. When I get to know the administrator from the linked forum I may ask though. The cars in themselves were somewhat unremarkable, 2v 302s, just like in my coupe.
That tempest story is unbelievable. I highly doubt things will turn out as well for me...
http://www.autoblog.com/2008/11/10/ebay-find-of-the-day-1963-lemans-tempest-sells-for-226-521/
Update: I found a grabber for sale on vintage mustang forums for 20k complete but with imperfections. That's a slight (3-5k) premium over regular '70 fastbacks as I've seen.
http://forums.vintage-mustang.com/showtopic.php?tid/1464272/post/1691101/hl/%22grabber+special%22/fromsearch/1/#1691101
What I want to know is, did Jay Leno really buy it?
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