Death of an Excursion

93Cobra2771 wrote:
Thread derail: Factory Five? Drool.

What running gear you gave in it? Coupe or Roadster? I am envious.

Derail? We're patiently waiting anyway. We're on a siding.

It is an early FFR roadster, upper/lower tubular A-arms, FFR tubular rear arms, chrome spoked 17", leather and carbon. It has a 70k stock 1990 Mustang 5.0L, 5-speed in it. Gear came from the Mustang that I parted out, mentioned in a post above.

It was a very beloved, beautiful black notchback LX until a... ahem... young relative... wrecked it after driving it only once. He hit some marbles on gravel, spun, shot backwards over an embankment, bounced off a culvert and landed in a semi-frozen slough, shiny side and nose up. Arghh! The good thing... he wasn't hurt.

After I bought the FFR, I earnestly cleaned, painted and began to assemble parts. In previous years I had started working for a railroad, and got laid off every winter like clockwork. But shortly after I bought the knock-off, business changed and I was forced to work over a 100 hours each week 24/7 or lose the job. It seemed like all I did was work and sleep. I only got back to my project briefly a couple times. Sigh. It will be a nice ride when done...

It was about eight years before labor thankfully negotiated some rotating set days off; work 7, get 3 off, or whatever was left when I got home. The roadster is unpainted, not done; the chassis was buried under junk and now I am old and tired. At least the half-done replica is now uncovered, but parked on the same auto lift that I presently need for my broken truck, with dear Mothers furniture under it. I suddenly need to rent storage no matter what. The best laid plans of mice and men...

I just retired last February and expected plenty of spare time, but it has gone everywhere but the Cobra. Too many years of neglecting just about everything. The honey-do list from heck...

And that is why my best bet is to probably hire the V-10 installed.

Wes
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