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But my wife wrecked my car and the body shop said frame was bent
I called insurance co said I think your getting hosed by you preferred shop they sent someone to look at it I'm sure the dude from body shop meet with him and looked at car together
Insurance adjuster took bunch of pic sent them to me put an arrow on one pic and said this was where the frame was bent
There bent frame was a manufacture contour
It has identicle contour on other side of frame what were the odds the wreck would bent it to perfict measurements absolutly none
The bottom line was the frame was not bent at all and I put the car back on road for 400 bucks
I see one thing that one one has said anything about, that engine will be a high idle time engine, If you look at the number of miles and then the hours that the engine has run you will see what I am talking about.
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Same thing with FDNY vehicles. Low miles, tons of hours. Like they never shut the vehicles down. Ford is switching commercial warranty to also look at hours, not just miles.
The main reson in the fleet we used actual engine hours not miles for our maintenance.
They never went very far but ran 12hrs a day when working on a job.
I'll trade you right now for that '69, sight unseen. I had a '68 Fastback in hs and my bf had a '67, then he got a '72 Mach. Just sold the '06 GT I got my son for graduation.
I have pics of the restoration. I'll see if I can put something together. This was my first project when I retired. Took a year with help from the grand daughter, seven at the time.
I put some pics in my album. See if you can access it. The comp. or at least this forum isn't quite doing it the way I expected it to. If there are some older truck pics with the mustang pics, they aren't mine.
LOL, hijack the flock outta my thread with that Mach. I can't compete.
Thanks for the hourly advice, Sean. I hadn't considered that, and you're probably right. However, there's a chance that's not the case. Again, this was an American Red Cross Disaster Relief truck, not a daily running ambulance. And more importantly, none of the back end looks wore out, like it'd sat running somewhere with people coming in and out. There are two seats and a long bench back there that are all in newish condition. More like a 40K vehicle than a 4000 hour vehicle.
That said, I'm headed to the storage lot tomorrow with batteries to check it out.
Commie, I do apologize for the hi-jack. Things just happened.
LOL, no problem. I like your project more. Deserves its own thread instead of being buried in this loser.
I had a '68 Fastback. 289 w 302 heads, Holly, Edelbrock, solid lifters, torque converter and manual shift automatic. Real nice and real fast except for the doggy stock 2.73 rear end. Sold it for $400 in '77.
