One of the members of the MustangII.net Forums has a 15 year old high school kid that works for him over the summer and part-time on the weekends. His name is Josh Hill. Last year he bought his first car, a plain-jane 1977 Mustang 2+2. He bought the car as a father-son project and really likes the II's. The car is solid, but it needs a total resto.

Josh and his dad took the car home last winter to start the resto. They got it disassembled and started putting all new parts on it.

Three weeks ago Josh's dad died tragically of a heart attack at the age of 38. He was a wonderful man and Josh really is a special kid. He IS NOT a typical teenager. He works hard and is very respectful.

Josh needs the Mustang community's help to restore his car. His family is poor. If you can help with parts or any of the financial aspects of the resto, please pitch in by getting Josh a gift certificate to Mustangs Unlimited. It would BLOW THIS KID AWAY if parts started showing up at his house from everyone.

Just call Mustangs Unlimited at 1-888-398-9898 and tell them you'd like a gift certificate sent to

Josh Hill
214 3rd Ave
Shell Lake, WI 54871

Any specific parts or services should go through Rob Milton.

 

I say we bombard Overhaulin with requests to get him on there....

can download the form to get someone on the show here....
http://www.overhaulin.com/

also Tonya lets do an event soon and do some kind of fund raiser to get this car built.....what do you say?

 

I agree with the Overhaulin and Fundraiser ideas !!

Id love to help the kid out somehow. I could donate the paint for the car (Paint/Clear/Primer)

 

Any specific parts or services should go through Rob Milton.

 

I just posted this in several other forums and bloged it on MySpace as well as hit up their bulletins. Just trying to get the word out.

 

There is a push on the MustangII.net Forums to get the project on Overhaulin'.

 

Hey Rabbitt maybe you can grease the wheels a bit on the Overhaulin thing by swinging by Lanzini, since he thinks you have such a great "paint job"

Is there a poster of something that can be printed or any additional info about this kid and his car....maybe one of resident artists can put something together, I would love to have something to hand out to some local companies and post at work, to get the word out, this town is loaded with people who, well, are loaded (money wise) and into cars and would probably help out. That and to post at shows.

 

Geez if they pretend to steal this kids car after his Dad just passed away the poor kid may snap !!

 

The Overhaulin idea is a great one but I went there to fill out the form and we don't have enough information to complete it.

Here's the form.

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Brad . . . can you get the rest of this info for us?

 

Overhaulin' is a great idea! Ya...someone set up a standard form here so we can spam it?

 

DOn't you have to live in LA to be on Overhaulin?

 

no...they did one in vegas and one at wyotech and somewher else...they just find a shop to do the work at

 

Tragic situation. I did want to mention that maybe overhaulin isn't the best idea out there. As Brad mentioned the kid and his father did have a decent amount of work in the Mustang II. I would think he doesn't want that work undone for a complete overhaul... Looses a little bit of the sentimental value.

Just my 2 cents. When I get paid I'll do a Mustang's Unlimited Cert.

 

Just my .02, but Foose is a pretty nice guy and I don't think he'd let them "steal" this kids car, they'd just do something else, like say someone had donated a bunch of parts and stuff and just wanted to do the work for him, or something like that. Anyways, I'm gonna do the certificate, and if we can get the app. for Overhaulin' done, I'll spam it too!!!! This is what the Mustang community is sooo good about!!!!




Just a thought, combine Overhaulin' with Extreme Home Makeover for this sort of situation, that would make a good show too.

 

thats the great thing about Chip he would realize its sentimental and incorperate those things into the Overhaul...its kind of the point of the show anyway

 

COPYING THIS TO MY BOARD

 

Don't know Chip except from the show but something tells me if he was aware of the situation, he would do what he could even if it was determined not a good fit for Overhaulin.

 

If we could get the information required to fill out the Overhaulin form properly so that the site bot would accept it we could move forward on that front .

I will do the gift certificate with Mustangs Unilmited too.

Image the possibilities for this kid and his car if just 50% of our membership were able to contribute say $5.00 to the cert . . . according to the site counter we have 8,530 registered members . . . I'll let you do the math :worship: .

 

bump

 

So why isnt this a sticky yet so everyone will see it right off the bat and we get this kids car done ASAP?