Suh-Weet! It already has a bodykit! There's some money saved!

Ooh, Sounds gnarly.

Ok. As per doors, fenders and a bumper. Auto parts usa has some in tejas for$ 30 a fender, and the bumper is... painful. I will dump the V8 and get the 2.3 I4. Will that bolt up to the stock stang tranny?

The 2.3 Ford may be the most developed tractor motor in the world. Lots of info and pieces in the midwest where they ruled the mini stock circle track world forevah. You'll need a bigger hood scoop for a header like in the vid tho.

Bumper should be a memory plastic so a heat gun and some tape will fix that.

Main thing is get the motor out, seam welded, caged and find a RA legal power plant. You can use the V8 later if you choose.

Hahaha, stang drew first blood last night. Buddy took a crowbar to the head removing the shitty sound system in the back.

We are stripping the interior. Planning on selling all the seats here.

Nice, cleaning out the shell is fun.

In your part of the country, will you have to smog this car?

OK guys, I am kinda... angry right now. Pulled more off and revealed cancer.


Driver's side hole on frame


Passenger's side crack/hole on frame

rest of frame is fine. Unibody on passenger's side is shot too


Damn MNDOT and salting the roads...

So guys. Talked to my guy who works for a body shop and gave him the run down; back of car is fine~ Surface rust, no cancer. Front end is.... cancer. He said roughly to fix the frame (I think that is what is eaten though in the pictures), and to have it done professionally, I would be looking at $1500-2400.


...Use this car for parts and move on? :c I have around 9k budgeted for it. Should I bother fixing it? Finding a vehicle with no rust on it in thisi part of the country is damn near impossible. My 05 crown vic is a rust bucket, my 00 jeep cherokee is a rust bucket, my 05 PT is a rust bucket, now my 84 stang is officially a rust bucket. UGHHHHHH...


Info? Help? Tips? Quotes? D: This is... rage-inducing, my friends. "OH, IT AS ONLY SITTING FOR 6 MONTHS." ...More like 2 years.


Note: the rest of the frame/body is just surface rust or starting to flake. those two holes are my only concerns.



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Its a parts car....we look pretty hard at that stuff before issueing logbooks. It would be cheaper to take a bus this general direction and buy a car to drive back. You'll piss away more money trying to fix a rust bucket than you can buy and transport a nice car. Rust is like an iceberg, you only see a small portion. I'll guarantee inside the welded panels and boxes there is a lot of rust and it will affect the structural integrity of the shell.

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFF... there goes 1k down the drain.

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FFFFFFFFFFFFFFF... there goes 1k down the drain.

That sucks. But, it certainly is a learning experience. You did learn to spend more time looking for rust. Bring a jack and stands next time and poke around big time.

The good news is you have a T5 transmission to keep for another car (this is a stick, right?), and a 302 you can certainly sell. Plus the rear end, some wheels, interior, etc. Plus the body panels.

Get on eBay and Craigslist and see what you can do with it, you may be able to come out ahead! But the shell sure looks toasted.

Oh, and from MN to Washington state should be what 2 days on Greyhound out and 1.5 driving back? Unless you can find something not rusty local like Bob of the Future did with his Volvo (he got lucky getting a CA car that was recently brought east), it may be worth the travel. I've had a few beer-fueled ideas of "borrowing" my dad's diesel pickup, heading west and seeing how many things I could lash to his open trailer...

My advice might be to slow down a bit and really give some thought to what you want to do and how you want to do it.
This thread started with an audi FWD idea and has ended with a rustang project reject.

If you want to go rallying and have a $9K budget to do it...

http://www.specialstage.com/oldclassifieds/showproduct.php?product=2327&title=1990-honda-civic-group-2-rally-car&cat=13

That'll give you a starter car with money left over for things like S/B boingers, and replacing the little shit you find when you tear it down and re-assemble it before your first event... hell, it might even leave enough for driver training since everyone I talk to says talented drivers in moderate equipment will beat poor drivers in good equipment all day long.

Note: I don't know anything about this car and if it is a reasonable car or a piece of crap. I'd bet you that the boys down the street at the RA office, Hurst in Particular, might know something about it.

Well, I will part this one out. TONS of nice new parts I can yank. Won't be worth a stack, but I can make this work. Hood, hatch, blah blah blah.

I can't seem to find other stangs with this fiberglass hood and this hatch... they are all the sedan type.