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I feel like I've brought U-bends from NP Steel Supplies in the past, but I can't quite remember if thats where I got them. I did the exhaust on dads mustang out of whatever it was that I brought and had no issues with oval bends.

I have headers on my 68 and also had to use the bracket to lower the end of the ram. I made the bracket myself. Word of warning though, the extra leverage that it puts on the bracket tore mine out of the chassis... I had to weld in some new threaded inserts and reinforce it.

I've joined the group and messaged him yesterday. No seat. And I think a 66 seat might be different. I'm buying one from a wreckers in Arizona. They're pretty punishing to deal with, but at least they reply to the emails. They must only check their emails in the morning though, as its 24 hours to get a reply, which is pretty painful when I'm in a bit of a hurry with it.

Sorry mate! I've never played with fuel pumps. The pump on my 302 was on it when I got it and has never let me down (until tomorrow of course now that I have said that).

That's all we ever had on dads VX landcruiser for towing. Worked a treat. Little digital keyring pressure gauge and you are set.

So at the moment the car is parked up in the yard in California. I've been frantically ordering parts for it: Brake shoes Slave cylinders Carb kit Accessory Belts Ball joints Bushings Rockauto tee shirt Shocks Carpet set Sound deadener Headliner Windscreen Replacement headlight bezel for the crunched one And a nice leather period correct steering wheel cover But finding a seat has been a ball-ache. The boys in So-Cal that have a seat don't seem very motivated to post it. And its for a 66, which might be different. Apparently a 68 model could fit. Aside from that, I've not had any luck finding a seat in decent condition. I've phoned and emailed heaps of those 100acre dead classic kind of desert junkyards. Most of them are as useless at communicating as you would expect from such places. I have found one place that has one, but at USD$225 for the seat, then as much or more again for freight, its gonna run me close to NZD$1000 for what they honestly describe as a fucked junk yard seat. Good frame and rails, but will need a new cover. A cover kit is going to cost over NZD $1100. That's over $2000 for a front seat! It might be what it will be at this stage and I'll have to bite the bullet. But will probably leave the new seat cover kit and just rough something together at this end with some spotlight fabric/mexican blanket to save the wallet for actually getting it on the road.

Yeah I liked the brown paint, but also looked at another the same colour and the brown on brown interior was absolutely disgusting

That's not a big job! Surely only 2 cans each and she'd be done

So at this stage I'm busy trying to round up all the parts I need to come over with the car. The key things being the windscreen and a front seat. The seller reckoned he knew where a good front seat was, and tried to arrange to buy it, but just couldn't get hold of the guy before the car left I managed to find a front seat frame in Southern California, but they're not sure that they can get it sent to where it needs to go in San Fran. Fingers crossed I manage to pull something together... The windscreen is very hard to find for a wagon, but I found a place in Arizona that does classic car glass and has one in stock. They are getting it crated up, but their crating/freight place is busy, and they have a 3-week wait! They're gonna try and hurry it along. Hopefully that doesn't miss the boat either, or things will start to get expensive! I also came across a good Trademe score and got some 15" wheels and near new tires for cheaps.

This is now less than 10 weeks away!

Yeah my mustang has an Edelbrock on it. By all accounts it was hard to get the tune right, but then it hasn't needed touching again for a decade or so since.

Soon after that, I happened to be browsing one afternoon and saw a new listing with the "Listed just now" written under it. "Running when parked" etc. I didn't think it would be the car for us, but messaged the seller out of curiosity. He was super helpful, quick to respond, and happy to send as many photos as I wanted. The seller himself, was a huge selling point for this car. So more photos and details came in. Its a 1967 Country Sedan, 390FE and C6. Power steering. Power drum brakes. Complete and original except for the front bench seat. Now I'm a terrible optimist, so in my minds eye, I can see this with an original front seat, new carpet, and a steam clean, as being not too bad of a car. There's a rust hole in the left rear guard, but the seller says its the only one. Yeah sure, heard that before... More photos please: Hmmmm OK thats actually straight as an arrow... And how's that patina! The price was right on this car too. So we ordered another Lemon Squad inspection, and it came back with everything pretty much as expected except that the windscreen was broken. A crack on the passenger side that the seller hadn't even noticed before. Just the one rust hole in the rear quarter. I poured over the photos, put together a spreadsheet of everything I thought it would need, and quickly priced up all the parts. It adds up to be pretty much the same price as the "ready to drive" cars I've looked at, plus my time (probably lots of it...) but this seems like an honest survivor car, so once I've got it on the road, I'll know what I've got. And best of all, the seller was a GC. If he ever reads all of this, I hope he knows how grateful I am. Money changed hands, and I got sent this yesterday. Over 6 months after looking at the first car. So as far as ticking the original boxes: Small block v8, ideally manual, 10 seat option, power steering, power disc brakes. Hmmm close enough. Auto is fine, and I'll likely sub out the 390 for a 302W in the future. Supposedly its only got 6 seats, but the VIN tag decodes to a 10 seater, and the panels for the fold up seats are there in the photos, so hopefully its not a major to make/fit some. Hmm yeah that. Well, I figure usually when importing an old car, it needs brakes, shocks, ball joints etc. So just add carpet, seat, headliner and wheels to that list and its sorted. If I'm lucky, it will be less work to get on the road than the rust repairs on that really nice 66 that ghosted us.

Yeah one of my mates has one on his F100, it was on it when he brought the truck and its getting pretty close to going in the scrap bin.

So the process for this particular car to this point had taken a long time... Like 2 months from seeing the ad and enquiring to finally having the inspection in hand and making the call to buy it. The seller worked away from home, and then went on holiday, and was not interested in being particularly helpful, or seemingly in any kind of hurry to sell his car. So when we finally got to the point where we had seen it and all looked good, and we sent the message to say "Yup we will take it, how much $$ buys it and when can we have it picked up?" - We never heard from him again. As you can imagine at this point I was kind of done, its now July. I'd had enough, the money we had aside was starting to get chewed into by other things, and I was pretty fucked off with America. I'd started looking at XJ6's on trademe again, clearly I was in a bad place. No other decent cars seemed to be coming up for sale, so I stopped looking so hard and just from time to time shifted my location on the old Facebook Marketplace to different states to keep half an eye on things. Then I stumbled across a 67 on Craigslist in Montana. The photos were pretty low-res, but it looked tidy enough. It had a 390 with some work done on it, 10 seats, Holley Sniper EFI and some electric power steering system. It also came with a second car for parts. It looked like a pretty sweet deal even with 2 lots of shipping. I could see the obligatory rust in the bottom of the doors, and it looked like some in the rear quarter. The sellers were not at all tech savy and were seriously struggling to send photos via email. They managed to send enough photos to confirm yes, rusty doors and rear quarter. It looked like it would be 50/50 on what it might be like underneath. But if the parts car was halfway reasonable, then selling that on arrival would probably leave a bit of meat on the bone to pay for some repairs if needed. A couple of other cars started to come up for sale, the Galaxie market seemed to be coming alive again. I messaged a few and got more photos, and they were all total shitters. The two for one deal was starting to look pretty good so we were going to get a Lemon Squad inspection. The sellers struggle with tech and the obvious rust had me pretty nervous though...

Its a 1966 Country Sedan. 289W and 3 on the tree manual. Power steering. Power disc brakes. Only 6 seater, but at this stage beggars can't be choosers, I'll retrofit the fold up seats. Its got nice 16" Torque thrusts (one of my fav wheels), a really tidy original parchment (cream) interior, and we love the colour. Its in a small town in Oklahoma. Its quite a bit more than we were planning to spend, but its on par with the mustang condition wise, so that seems like a good move. Being in Oklahoma, its too far away from the man in California, so Danny ordered a 3rd party inspection from a crowd called "The Lemon Squad". They sent someone out to inspect it, who sent us back about 100 photos and a report on the condition. They were pretty thorough, A+ would recommend. Now lots of the cars we had seen, even the nicer ones, all had one thing in common. Rust in the bottoms of the doors and the tailgate. That was really the only fault with this car, and we had resigned to the fact that this was just how things are. So all good, lets take a brave pill and pull the trigger on this one. Its pretty much bloody perfect for us. FINALLY!! Stoked!