Reviving A 1973 Ford Mustang Fastback After 30 Years Of Rotting In Someone’s Yard
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- Опубликовано: 13 июн 2022
- Today on Dead Ford Garage, it’s a 1973 Ford Mustang. It might be a Mach 1? Not sure. Don’t care. It’s kinda cool, for a Ford anyway. Anyway, today we turn this poor, rotting, shiftless pile into a… poor, rotting, shiftless pile that runs!
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I AM NOT SELLING THIS CAR. IT WASN'T MINE, AND IT WAS SOLD SIX MONTHS AGO. STOP ASKING k thx bai
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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Dude. You make my day. I have depression and suicidal tendencies and you just crack me the hell up. Love the channel dude
Please dont die😢
I no longer can drive but these videos are are some how relaxing to watch.
Get your shit together life is good
351 Cleveland's were great engines and with a good cam and an aftermarket 4bbl intake manifold on the 2V engines they were fantastic street stompers with decent drag strip performance. For the most part the factory 4V engines realistically had heads that were overkill for street use or mild to moderate track use because their ports and valves were too big. A 351 CI engine can't realistically utilize ports and valves that are intended for an engine of 429 to 460 CI. A lot if people don't know the heads for the 351C 2V and 4V engines were actually way different from each other, and the 4V actually did have ports and valves that were the size of those on the 429--460 engines.
Cool car! I've got a friend who still has his 73 Mach 1, he's had it since 1978 when we were in high school! I remember how proud he was when he put his new Predator carburetor on it, which was state of the art at the time, it still has it on there today! It's the very same color blue as that one! Great video! Thanks for sharing!
Bondo is only a few letters away from bondage (servitude or subjugation to a controlling person or force, in this case rust) Hopefully the new owner is a Ford fan and will spend the time to get this unit back onto the street. Thanks for the video Jamie.
I had a 71 Cougar XR7, 351C 2V FMX that was about one step away from the hedge row when I bought it and drove it for another 25K. Had as much rust as that Stang but no bondo. I had fun with it regardless of its obvious death trap status. Nothing flat out on an old rural two lane with the speedo needle bouncing from one side to the other. What I like and out those platforms, Mustang and Cougar, is the way they handle when everything is in harmony and heavier shocks and sway bars are employed. 351Cs always give me a warm fuzzy.
Nice video! My Dad has a 1973 Mustang Fastback that he ordered brand new. It sat for about 15 years and I got it running for him again about 7-8 yrs ago. This video got me all amped up about his car again as it is my next project after I get my project car done. It's a pretty rough/rusty MN car. Probably past the point of most people fixing it up...but we have some sentimental value for it.
The body style of the first gone in 60 seconds. Eleanor.
The 2V 351C was listed as a 174 hp engine. In Australia, they figured that a Mopar Carter ThermoQuad 4bbl, and Duraspark with 8.9:1 compression was all you needed to match the 4V hydraulic lifter engines that made 300, 285 hp gross, or the CJ that made 280 hp gross, or 266 to 246 hp net. We AntipoDeans measured 216 hp net from 1976 to 1985. Nothing fixes insufficient carb CFM on a Ford like a nice big 318, 340 or 360 Carter ThermoQuad. America used it as a RPO on the 460 Lincoln Mark for 1974. Exactly the Same 216 hp result. Because....Carter ACF Knew Best. Until the EPA slugged them for poisoning the waterhole at North Grand Boulevard North St Louis.
Glad to see it running, good of Willard or Ben not attacking!
That 351C is a very thirsty engine
Keep looking up vids of other peoples projects as I got mine in final assembly after a couple decades of sitting in my dads garage. Good luck. I can guarantee it’ll take everything to get it it where you want it, but I’m hoping it’s all worth it in the end. Seems only other car guys get what we put into these mean machines.
Its always a toss up between the 71 and 73. This mustang clearly says "EV MY ASS !"
I had a similar issue with the FMX transmission in my 69 Mustang GT. Except R was forward and 1 was reverse. Needless to say, I now have a 4 speed in there.
We have to be brothers, I love the Demons and I am actively looking for one, and I am restoring a 1971 Mach 1 right now. A 71 Mustang 351C Sportsroof was my first car and a 1972 340 Demon was my second car.
I took a trip to Lopez Island in Washington to look at a 73 convertible in 2014
Little bit of quarter damage on the driver side where the wheel came off, but the deal breaker was interior repaint work without disassembly.
Dash paint overspray on the buckets, and interior trim overspray on the rear seat, and an issue with the door panel carpet separating.
From 10 feet the car looked amazing, but up close it wasn't a 25K car.
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.
I've had three of those machines love them all. Better than a Corvette that I had. I think they're beautiful cars. The 71 I had add a 429 Cobra jet man it was fast
The wife and I have brought home a 71 Mustang mach 1 351C C6 M code fastback that is in this kinda shape. We need to learn a lot, lol.
Owned and enjoyed my 73 Cleveland convertible from 1987 to 2018
It is not ugly… now you take that back right now!😂
Alright, fiiiiine 😅
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Good man you…good man.
Had this transmission problem once before...I believe it turned out to be a stuck modulator valve...I could be wrong, it's been a many years ago.
oh. my first car and last ford i would ever buy, after 8 yrs in Michigan it was rotted through and through, i ended up dumping it in the woods outside of Detroit and filling it with a thousand rounds of 22- and 12-gauge buck shot, the 351 Cleveland was pretty stout but the rust of it was complete garbage.
When new, one needed two green lights to get across the road . . . NOT so with the '71
Was the parking brake you spoke of not having to use at the video beginning in the rear tire...or the stack of tires behind it. 😆.
The later one 🤣
I would raise the rear wheel on stands , change the fluid and let it run in reverse for a bit and get good and warm. Drive may come back to life. Worth a shot ?
A good idea - but much too late! Haha. My friend sold the car some time ago.
I have a 72 that will turn over but won’t start please give me some tips to get it started.
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.
That a jem.always wanted one,my funds are low,are I would buy that,also know how to fix the transmission
im amazed that you had the luck that you do, lifter bleed down is a common problem with fords that sit for an extended period, my friends 71 fastback sat for a year, and we went to fire it back up and the pushrods bent due to lifters bleeding down. yet you can fire up a car after sitting 30 years with not so much as a spark plug change. i would never had started cranking on it until I knew I had oil pressure, but you seemed to have a "i dont care attitude"
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.
Well, sometimes life just throws you a bone and today that bone turned out to be this video popping up in my suggested list. Between you and Lambvinski it seems that the coolest channels are coming from Washington these days. Maybe I'll move down there, Alberta is boring. Got a friend that lives in Centralia that I'm coming to visit soon, maybe I'll just stay.
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 RUclipss 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.
Ford had points in 74 too. I found that out when I started working on my 74 ranchero.. Don't know if it helps anybody. Just a neat factoid
Clevelands for life!
I do like 71-73 Mustangs/Cougars. Cougars more so. There all Cleveland's. No I6, 302. FMX/C6 autos, few 3,4 speed manuals. They drive nice too. When they are solid.
I like Cougars a lot actually. I’ll have one some day. I’ve never driven a mustang that I liked though…
Cool video!I also want to know what about the music.If you could,I'd like to know the artist and the song if you could.Sounded pretty interesting.
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 RUclips.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.
I had a 71 mark 1 that looked just like this one body style that is. It had a 351 Cleveland big block. Back in 72 It would eat any Dodge or Plymouth or Chevrolet for breakfast. If that car has a 351 Cleveland in it You have one hell of a good and strong engine in it. It probably only has a stock 302 or a Windsor 351 small block in it.
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?
hay how you doing man im fraser .form toronto .im a dodge guy but i like that mustang ,what are you looking to get for that car ,,,LOL nice,,,
It wasn’t my car, and it was sold months ago.
What is the story on the yellow 1st gen Charger?
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.
I had a red 71
Shake the hood rust and crap into the carb….fantastic
Whoopsie
Nice project at least it's pretty much all there such a shame that was so neglected those Transmissions are not that complicated if you can do a carburetor you can do a transmission usually it's just the clutches in the drum or it may be just as easy as tightening the band Bolt
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 like how subtitles thinks engine revving is music
Haaahaha. I didn’t know that, and I definitely enjoy it.
Is it still for sale?
It was sold months ago.
Have a friend who’s dad just picked up a 70 Mach 1
What are you wanting for the mustang
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.
You… sat in that thing? Voluntarily?
“Today on Dead Dodge Garage- curing lockjaw.”
Haaaahaha. I told Josh when he brought it in that it should be me because I was up on my shots.
2BBL Cleveland?
Indeed
how much are you asking on the car?
Was never mine, and was sold months ago.
My stomach churned when he shook the hood out…😂
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Looks more like an FMX Transmission than a C 6
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.
How much for the car?
Please refer to the pinned comment 🙃
How much for the 73 Mustang.
Not mine, sold months ago
You know much 😊
I know some…
This car highlights my pet peeve with these people on you tube.....For God's Sake presure wash the crap off the engine and body of the car before you work on it ...out side of that I love watching you put a car back to breathing fire...
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…
It just needs a little turtle wax.
I got to ask, What's the deal with the LLV?
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.
3 sixes were all up in the 80s for drugs and everything else they should be able to find one of those easy
…What?
Let new fluid sit for a while maybe a week or 2 after it has been rotated through the Transmission and everything gets oiled up. Then try again. Fords are bad for this when they sit for a while.
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.
The Mach 1 wasn't the best looking Mustang with that back part Imo
Have to agree. Lol. But people really like them… a bunch of people have asked to buy this one in the comments 🤣
Leave me and a 73 Mustang in a room alone. Let's just say we're both leaving pregnant
🤣 I laughed way too hard at this. People are looking at me funny.
There’s a hole where the drivers seat was…no longer…It’s Fine…just like Barney Rubble…Fine…
I’m confused
and dose it have a 351 winser in it???
Cleveland
@@DeadDodgeGarage fuuuuuuck but it still kinda looks like a Winsor
Take a Mustang of today, run it ragged, and park it for the next 30 or 40 years out in the elements. Then try to revive with its original parts like you can on this '73. It would be next to impossible.
Yeah… don’t try it with a modern Mopar, either. It’s not going to go well.
What trying get for mustang
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You already said it wasn't for sale. From God.
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?!
How much for it?
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.
you called her ugly maybe thats why
Thats just Disrespectful for the that beautiful peace of machianry.
I find It funny and Kinda Sad But after all Its a Car u picked up 👍
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.
Are you Jack, from Jack in the Box?
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.
Mustangs are like Alfa Romeos. They rust. Asside form that, nothing is the same.
Found On Road Dead GARAGE!!!
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FIRST ON RACE DAY!
Fix Or Repair Daily 😂
Why is it that all the 73's survived 50 years .But no one has a 71.Fastback Observation .I'M a Mopar guy anyway..
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.
“Why is it so easy” it’s an old ford when they did at least some shit right.
I think it was more a comment on the revivals I’ve done in general - they always just seem to go. Never any drama.
It’s not a fastback, it’s a SportsRoof.
So… they have a special name for a fastback
@@DeadDodgeGarage For these years, yes.
Gorgeous car . Ridiculous video
Cool, cool
its a 71 or 72 actually
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
Lol why ?
I wish I knew…
Those were called the 'fat' Mustangs for a reason. ('71-'73). At least it has the Cleveland engine even though it's a 2 bbl. I will confess to owning some GM's but I've never owned a Ford and just can't get into them. My brother had a few, including a mid-late '70's LTD II (his wife's car) which had a dash that looked like it was from a video arcade game, kind of like that Mustang. Speedo, tach and gas gauge. Fords just have some weird engineering features, IE those huge underhood shock towers. A car buddy of mine that I worked with in the military had a nice 1970 Torino 429 Super Cobra Jet 4 speed he had since HS. I was helping him work on it in the base shop and the top of the gas tank was actually the trunk floor. You pulled the gas tank out through the trunk. Seemed a weird design to me. It was made that way.
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.
Well of course it's a pile it says ford on it!😂
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First On Race Day 😎
You should rename the video, " oh how I hate mustangs ".......
I should! I do!
POJ....
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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I come here for the car content, turn out to be a freaking bad joke comedian guy. 😒🤡🤐🤣🤣
I came here to read this comment, turn out to be a freaking not good English guy 🤡
Mustang is much nicer looking than that dodge.
Personally, I think these late Mustangs are hideous piles of garbage. But of course people think that about late Chargers too.
Corny
Working as intended
Sounds bitchin, but needs some TLC!!!!!! But it's a nice car!!!!!!!
How much did you pay for it ?
I didn’t, it was never mine.
I was a Mopar guy but back in the day 40 years ago I had one of those in the back windows useless can't even see out of the son of a b**** when you're sitting in the car that was the only Ford car I ever owned it had a I bought it for a winter car so I can take my Dodge c😮harger off the road I lived in New York Eden New York little Farming town one traffic light a bank a grocery store and 1bar