Project Ragtop...so it begins.

Well after much searching and consideration, I have found what I hope to turn into a road worthy mustang. I was not sure for awhile exactly what kind of car I wanted to build. I had previously built a VW which after a couple years I sold in May of 07.

I wanted to jump right into another car within a week but I took my time instead as I needed to be sure of exactly what I wanted. I knew no matter what I got that it was going to be a beater that needed to be brought back from the dead and I had already used the proceeds from the sale of the VW to pay off the bills that were generated from rebuilding it. So needless to my budget was weak like clock radio speakers.

Its a shame too since a month after the money was gone I found an 86 SVO that I probably could have picked up for 1800. Well theres not alot of SVO fans out there and part sourcing might have been problematic not to mention that money sourcing could have been even more of an issue. In retrospect I should have done it since it was a 1 of 70 produced with the a certain blue paint code. No sense crying about it now.

Well the summer passed into fall and I hadnt located anything I really wanted. Correction, there were a couple cars on Ebay that I found but none sold in my price range. Shelbys are not in my price range and neither was much of anything over 500. I did try to go after an LT1 firebird that needed a motor but that didnt pan out for me. So the search continued.

December started with me beginning to look on craigslist. Not sure why I didnt try there before as that is the perfect place to find a local beater in need of help. Came across a few S10 trucks that looked like they might be worth turning into straight drag cars but honestly whats the point. There isn't that reaction of "wow what a cool car" from people that you meet, so I figured pointless to try.

Mid December, I come across an 87 Mustang convertible LX with the awesome 2.3L lump under the hood. It had a GT body kit on it and the pictures showed it sitting on flats. It was advertised for sale in the title for 350 (What do you know....thats my price range.) I figured I'd keep an eye on it for a bit to see if it moves. A couple of weeks ago I decided to follow up with the guy who owned it as it appeared that it wasn't selling. He still had it. So, I made the time to go by and see the car this past Thursday and well it certainly was a project car.

I made him an offer of 300 for it and he took it. We transferred the title yesterday and I enlisted the help of my brother with his 2005 F250 Harley Davidson Edition truck and we towed it from Holmesburg in Philadelphia out to Willow Grove today.

So now it sits in my driveway under a car cover incase it rains since the top needs replacement (Among other things) I'm going to try to dig into it a little bit to see what I got myself into and post next week on it.

Wish me luck.