Reviving A 1973 Ford Mustang Fastback After 30 Years Of Rotting In Someone’s Yard 

Hey boss. I just found this exact car on a Craigslist ad. Literally. Is that you? I’ve reached out to the person

@@Gambit82961 It wasn't mine, it was never mine, and it left here almost a year ago. So, no! But that's really interesting actually.

IS IT FOR SALE?

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I no longer can drive but these videos are are some how relaxing to watch.

Get your shit together life is good

Get help, lot of people willing to help

Alright, fiiiiine 😅

@@DeadDodgeGarage Good man you…good man.

Someone offered me a Mach 1 in trade for my Cobra replica with a beautiful red paint job, and said it needed repairs to the floors. It was actually horrible (and to his credit - he knew what it was and sent many detailed pictures.) Just all terrible crust around the perimeter of the floor, frame boxes in the back were going. Not just scaley stuff, like, going to pieces and disintegrating. Trunk floor. It was very, very far from a $40k car… but same thing, it looked awesome.

Thankfully the “is it for sale” questions have ended. Of all the cars I’ve done videos on, this one got way more of them than any other. This video continues to get views consistently so that’s cool.

Not mine, sold months ago.

I know where two 1971's are at sitting. One is a four speed, 4 barrel Cleveland, the other a 429 CJ. But the engine is missing out of that car. Problem is no one wants to pay a finders fee to my daughter, 12 years old, who found the cars.

Haaahaha. I didn’t know that, and I definitely enjoy it.

Scrub your points! Sand paper or small file. You can test them with a screwdriver with the key on and the distributor cap off. Make sure the points are closed (may need to rotate engine slightly) and then open them with a screw driver. If you see a little spark in there, you’re good. You may need to replace points and condenser, or you could even have a bad coil. But cleaning the points will usually work.

It was not a Windsor. It ran pretty nicely. Obviously I wasn’t able to test drive it.

I hope it was a Windsor. The windsor is the bullet proof, run it out of oil and abuse it and will keep on running like the famous Chrysler 318. Ford used it for over 30 years. Ford dumped the cleveland after only 5 years. What did they know?@@DeadDodgeGarage

@@DeadDodgeGarageSold it eh? For how much?

🤣 I laughed way too hard at this. People are looking at me funny.

Have to agree. Lol. But people really like them… a bunch of people have asked to buy this one in the comments 🤣

Haaaahaha. I told Josh when he brought it in that it should be me because I was up on my shots.

A good idea - but much too late! Haha. My friend sold the car some time ago.

I know nothing about ford

U=C6, X-FMX. No C4 with 351C. Drivers side door data tag. 2- 2.75:1 9" open diff.

Whoopsie

Good luck…

Nah… I prefer to go the other way. The bath is the reward at the end. And I never, ever pressure wash engines. I do usually vacuum off the rat turds though. Usually…

I’ve heard a few comments like that. Someone else said to let it sit in gear on jack stands. I’m just so used to Mopars - they usually just work. Haha.

It’s important in life to know what one can get away with. Lifters bleed down in all kinds of engines - this causes clatter on startup. I don’t know what bent your friend’s pushrods, but I’m going to bet it wasn’t lifters which had bled off their oil - especially when one considers that every new hydraulic lifter engine that is started does so with lifters that have not ‘pumped up’ yet. I don’t know, I play with Chrysler engines. They only bend pushrods when they’ve been sitting in dirt floor barns since the 80s and the rocker arms are rusted solid, allegedly. The oil looked good, the engine turned fine by hand, so I cranked it with the starter and it sounded healthy and even. Yep, we’ve got a live one. If it had fired off and not built oil pressure immediately, I would have aborted mission. Of the many, many engines I have started which have sat for decades, the number which have not quickly made oil pressure on startup… is zero. And you know what? If they don’t make oil pressure when first started, either they didn’t make oil pressure when parked, or they were going to need to be opened up anyway. Why worry? We aren’t talking about Hemis or Cobrajets here. Anyway, I have indeed had annoyingly good luck with every one of the revivals I have done - except for that pesky flathead, which was reluctant to fire, despite having plenty of spark, fresh fuel and new plugs. A bit of oil down the cylinders to bandaid the tired rings did the trick. If you’re alleging that it actually ran a week, or a month, or a year, or ten years before I got my hands on it as opposed to thirty, well, I didn’t have my personal security detail guarding the car from the time I was two years old to now, so I certainly can’t make any guarantees. Old spark plugs spark just fine. And you know what else? I really don’t care.

​@@DeadDodgeGarageI like how you put things in honest, direct, to the point explanations that everyone should be able to understand.

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I like it quite a bit here! Of course one has to be ok with rain… did you know Lambvinski and I are friends? Haha. He’s actually out in between home and where I work now so I drive by all the time. He’s been doing the RU-vids a good bit longer than me, but we’re mostly playing the same game. There isn’t a ton happening out in grays harbor… we have to make our own fun.

@@DeadDodgeGarage Well that's pretty dang cool man! I could totally see you two being friends, I get the same vibe from the both of you lol. You still have the Mustang kicking around? Was really hoping to see a pressure washing video on that thing lol.

Yeah… don’t try it with a modern Mopar, either. It’s not going to go well.

I like Cougars a lot actually. I’ll have one some day. I’ve never driven a mustang that I liked though…

Haaaahaha. Now that I don’t know. That sounds like one of my questions though - why is it that green interiors tend to be in great shape, but black interiors tend to be ruined?

@@DeadDodgeGarage I have a 1971 with red interior

I know where two 1971's are for sale.

That was the pride of the fleet for almost a decade. I did a series of videos called “The Three Pedal Solution” with that car toward the beginning of the channel. Once I got my ‘68, I decided I just don’t need both, and that car went to my friend Dave.

The later one 🤣

And I have said it so many times in responses here... and the pinned comment... but no one pays attention to that sort of thing. I don't even understand why anyone would want a way too late Mustang with holes rusted through the roof, among other places - but what do I know?!

We have rebuilt a C6 here before, for a 6.9 turbo IDI truck. It wasn’t that bad… but this isn’t my car and I have no interest in taking it on.

@@DeadDodgeGarage Hope u passed it on to a dedicated Mustang enthusiast.

I’m confused

I feel that way about late B-body Mopars these days. They’re cool cars that are generally disliked by the community at large.

It was sold months ago.

I think it was more a comment on the revivals I’ve done in general - they always just seem to go. Never any drama.

The song is Foreign Port, from my finished but not really finished and not yet released solo album. It’s a weird song, I tested it out with two bands and neither liked it. Haha. Glad you like it. Any music you hear on this channel was recorded by me - most by myself, some at live practices with a band.

I wouldn't mind hearing it on a CD or even uploading stuff on RU-vid.The second song I thought was really cool.You should post it. I should mention that the 71 to 73 mustang for some reason to me is the most interesting. After all these years, they seem to be getting a bit more popular.

Please refer to the pinned comment 🙃

…What?

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Not mine, sold months ago

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FIRST ON RACE DAY!

Fix Or Repair Daily 😂

Was never mine, and was sold months ago.

I service the local fleet! 19 of them serving three cities and a lot of the county. So it’s not one llv, it’s a bunch one at a time. I actually did a video about them some months back.

Cool, me too. The servicing part that is.

i work with Jose. yea, they're rattle buckets.

Cleveland

@@DeadDodgeGarage fuuuuuuck but it still kinda looks like a Winsor

I know some…

It wasn’t my car, and it was sold months ago.

So… they have a special name for a fastback

@@DeadDodgeGarage For these years, yes.

My friend sold it, like, forever ago. There is a pinned comment that addresses this.

Didn’t see it. Didn’t know. Thank you for letting me know.

If I was… would I tell you?

Great funny content! Awesome cars! I’m currently restoring a 69 Dart and learning everything I can about these old Mopars.

I don’t understand. Did I disrespect it? Ok I might have called it an ugly late year rust bucket, and worst of all… a Ford. But also it wasn’t ever mine.

I should! I do!

Well, the ‘73 grille, bumper, and title disagree with you there.

@@DeadDodgeGarage how much r u selling it for BTW i didnt know there was such thing as a 73 mach 1

Personally, I think these late Mustangs are hideous piles of garbage. But of course people think that about late Chargers too.

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I wish I knew…

Cool, cool

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Working as intended

I came here to read this comment, turn out to be a freaking not good English guy 🤡

Yep... that's how they are. Just so far from being my thing in any way. I like the good fastback Mustangs... at least in theory. In practice, early Mustangs seem to usually drive really bad. I don't need that in my life.

@@DeadDodgeGarageearly as in 65 or as in pre 80's? This one went nowhere though.

Whut

@@DeadDodgeGarage Lol..Respectfully...a litreral Piece Of Junk..

@@davidlewis2681 ahhhhh, if the last letter was an S I would’ve understood. Haha.

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Not as bad as dodge Or chevy Subaru's another 1 they rust totally to pc You have to go south to get a good 1 But the mark 1 I would love to have that car sitting right there I would give a good penny for that

Pound sand, kick rocks, lick a toad, do whatever you’ve gotta do, but absolutely just feel free to go away

I didn’t, it was never mine.