yeah Tires are horrible though. I just order a full set of BF Goodrich RWL tires with 15x7 mag 500's Should get here next Fri/ hopefully. Dunno what i'm gonna do with these rims :scratch:

 

Congratulations KFD!

 

It looks and sounds (by your description) to be a nice, sweet ride. I'd love to have one like that-- not too dolled up, not too plain.

 

I think those 'slot mag' rims are pretty rare now-a-days, and could be worth some money to someone looking for them.

Very nice ride!

 

Looks good

my brother in law has those some wheels on his 68 coupe

 

WOW. Not to be nosy, but would you mind telling us what you paid??If not thats ok.

 

yeah Tires are horrible though. I just order a full set of BF Goodrich RWL tires with 15x7 mag 500's Should get here next Fri/ hopefully. Dunno what i'm gonna do with these rims :scratch: [/b][/quote]
Speaking of horrible tires, mine could really use a rear set B)

 

Nice Stang!!! Hope my '66 looks that good one day!!!

 

Your new '65 coupe is a '66!

 

Dan, I noticed the same thing last night when I saw the photos. I was going to post a question about it but decided not to. Good eye!

How are your new baby and your wire doing? I am typing this as my 3 week old son sleeps on my chest. Nothing in the world like it. Jeff

 

Looks to be in overall nice cond. congrats. KFD!

 

Yeah the previous owner said that the body was a 66. It also has some 65 in it. What threw me off was it has the honeycomb grille. I suppose that could be put in easily though. It was titled as a 65 with the previous owner. It originally was a 6cyl. which the seller gave me so now I have to find a place to keep a 6cyl engine and tranny...Also the owner gave me the original rear bench seat, and a original front seat..The car has a VIN# which says its a 65 also.


BTW. I paid a little over 6K for the car.

 

WOW. what a bargain.

 

For future reference should you begin ordering parts etc. for the car:

Passenger Side = Right Side
Driver Side = Left Side

 

Hah didn't even realize I had screwed that up. I've always had trouble with my shoes also.

 

Good luck with your car, nice ride. If I were you I would really consider to start getting your hands wet right away with that tune up, don't "take it to the shop". If you get in this habit every time you have an issue, then you'll be in it for 13k before you know. I'd assume if you had money to burn you would have spent that much already, so start learing how to do things yourself ASAP, and the tune up is as good place to start as any, everything else we can help you along the way as you need help diagnosing the problems.

Clean out fuel lines with some gas addative, replace your fuel filter, new plugs and wires, clean and or replace points and condenser or upgrade to electric ignition(unless you have electric ignition already then you can skip this) and then reset/adjust the timing if necessary. All this honestly requires minimal wrenching and is about all there is to the tune up and if you have trouble at this stage, then at least you will know to start budgeting enough money aside for a full time mechanic or plan on having some down time quite often as these cars no matter what condition they are in are prone to gremlins and all kinds of small problems that will plague you often. They are easily fixed if you know what to do though.

A perfect example for ya, car won't start on a damp morning. Probably just a bad ground contact on the engine block, wiggle it and you start right up, but tow it to the mechanic and it's likely he will tell you something needed to be replaced that didn't.

 

Updated how the car looks after I put new rims on it and a few other minor things.

 

And one more.

 

And a pic of the frontend.

 

Amazing what a set of wheels and tires can do to a car in the looks department.