ICMC - Featured Car of February 2001

As far back as I can remember, I’ve always wanted a mustang of my own to drive. When I was in high school, I needed a car that I could drive back and forth to school in. On the bus ride in the morning, there would sit on the side of the road a ‘68 white mustang coupe. It was in a sad state and was screaming for some attention. Of course at the time, it looked like the sweetest ride on four wheels. The owner wanted $1800 for it but then I found out that the driver side floor pan was missing. My dad quickly said no and to forget about any idea of owning that car. My Mustang dreams were put on hold!

Seven years down the road, the wife and I are talking about using the tax return to purchase a computer for the home. A couple of days later while I was driving home to turn over the car to her, I had a moment of enlightement. When I arrived home, I ran inside and quickly told her of my idea. At first she wasn’t keen on the idea of getting an old fixer upper Mustang instead of that cute little imac in blueberry treatment but it began to grow on her. We started looking through classifieds and the internet for the perfect candidate. Many were way out of our budget and in a shape not fit for the paved road. As we were driving home from looking at a ‘67 coupe I noticed a ‘66 coupe at a local dealership sitting on the used lot. We went in asked about it and took it for a test drive and I was quite surprised at how well it took off down the road. Everything was there except for the spare tire and jack. I talked to the wife and we made the dealer our offer. After the typical let me go talk to the boss routine, they came back and said it was a deal. I finally got my Mustang!

The history of the car is somewhat vague. It was originally purchased in Seattle by a military man and made a trip to Alaska during his enlistment. Somewhere down the road it ended up back in Washington and was sold to a lady in Anacortes,WA. She drove it for a number of years and had parked it under a tree where it collected a lot of tree sap and pine needles. I know this because I had to remove it all after I purchased it. In early 2000 she traded it in on a 2000 Mustang GT at the dealership. From there it came to my possession.

Since owning it, I have done some minor restoration to. It has new carpet and underlayment, windshield, parking lights, transmission shifter, and a spare tire. It has yet to win any awards but it made it’s first showing at last year’s Show and Shine. After seeing all the pretty mustangs at the show, I figured it wasn’t quite ready for the car shows. Currently, it sits in my garage where the wife and I ponder if this is something we want to sink some serious dough into it or if we should sell it and get the ultimate; an early model fastback.

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