OK, by popular demand I took some more pictures.
First the background story. It is a '66 GT, black on black. I first bought the car back in around '86, from a former high school classmate who originally brought it up from Missouri. It didn't have an engine, but had small block mounts put in, so I got a 351W dropped in. I only had it a couple weeks when another friend offered to trade me his 73 Torino for it. I was in need of a driver, and the Fairlane needed more work to get running, so I took the offer. He tried to get it running but didn't get far with it and eventually sold it to another friend. Crites mounts were used to drop in a 460, and a local chassis shop put in a roll bar, subframe connectors and a ladder bar rear suspension. Again, it sat for a while before he needed some quick cash and offered to sell it to me. I also let it sit until a few months ago I decided to get it back on the road. I have another 460 that I am freshening up to drop in place of the mock-up motor in it now. I also traded some parts for a rebuilt close ratio toploader from a 70 Torino.
Now for pictures. From the front...
from the side...
The seats are from a 67, but I also have the original seats.
The rollbar ties into the rockers and the subframe connectors. Needs to be cleaned up and painted...
A 460 under the hood...
Exhaust will be a tight squeeze...
The grill medallion looks different from other GT I've seen. Is it just missing the plastic cover or is something funky going on?
The simulated wood steering wheel. The plasic has shrunk leaving gaps. Is there a good way to fix this?
Here is a Maverick I had been using as a daily driver. I now have another DD, and am not sure if I should use the brakes and other bits for the Fairlane, or if I should try to sell it intact. It runs and drives, the structural parts are solid, but the windows leak, and the footwell and trunk floors have rusted out. There is also rust around the wheel wells.
My user name is the same as I use on the Kawasaki triples board. Here is my H2. A 750 cc 2-stroke triple. The quickest street bike of its day, but lots of smoke and oil from the exhaust, so Quick and Dirty seemed appropriate.
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