From Disgustang to Mustang without breaking the bank…
Plans for the Car Show Season I feel like the last month has gone by in a heartbeat (hoof beat?). So much has happened. Most people follow my blog through Facebook, and I’ve posted a few photos there over the past few weeks, so you all probably know I did, indeed, make it to the Fabulous … Read more
All of a sudden the Mustang is Complete… I’ve still got a few things to deal with from a fine-tuning perspective, but quite suddenly and with very little fanfare, the Mustang is complete. Every part that is supposed to be on the car is now on the car, down to the emblems and the license plates. My … Read more
Hey Reality, why’d you have to slap me in the face? I woke up early this morning with an intense sense of dread. I felt the same kind of impending uneasiness I used to feel when I had an exam in college for which I felt unprepared. Why? Because I woke up this morning crushed by reality. The … Read more
Have I made much progress lately? No. There isn’t much to be made at this point, to be honest. I’m down to the small detail stuff, final fitting, fiddling, and farting around. The back window is installed. The initial water test went off without a hitch before I installed the trim, hopefully now that the … Read more
Re-sealing/re-installing the rear window After attempting in vain to seal the rear window on three separate occasions, I finally threw in the towel over the weekend and decided I’d have to pull the glass out and start over. Ugh! Knowing full well what a pain it would be, I spent a lot of time dreading … Read more
Finding and Fixing a Suspected Vacuum Leak One of the niggling problems I’d been having was a loud whistle from the engine compartment. The noise drove me nuts because, it being high-pitched and all, it was impossible to find it. It sounded like it was coming from everywhere! Also it seemed to diminish once the engine was … Read more
Random bits of progress I haven’t posted to the blog in over a month, and given the tone of my last entry, you could be forgiven for suspecting I hadn’t been making much progress. And in a way, you’d be right. I’ve been working on the car consistently and have made tiny bits of progress in … Read more
I’ve made mistakes…and then some I’m sure there’s some way to call a mistake something else, like “a lesson in disguise,” but I’m just gonna go right out there and say I’ve made a lot of mistakes. I’ve learned a lot. But the fact that I know what I’d do differently in the future doesn’t … Read more
Going for a First Drive Saturday was a cluster-f$%&. Plain and simple. We chased problems all day, as I’ve mentioned, and even at the end of the night when I’d finally broken-in the motor, I couldn’t drive it. That sucked. It was a big let-down. I closed the night by crawling into bed tired, frustrated, … Read more
It’s Alive! Disgustang runs well! Well, that’s a thing that happened. Today, after several fits and starts, after playing whack-a-mole with random crap, I finally started the motor for the first time on my 1966 Mustang. The Disgustang runs…really…really well. It’s taken more than three years and spending almost double what I’d planned to get … Read more