Wednesday, December 30, 2020

Moving the Mustang

We added a front 2" DrawTite receiver hitch and an 8" drop hitch mount to the F-250 Super Duty tow vehicle.


 
Then we added a tow bar to the Mustang GTs rear bumper bar. This way we can move the car in and out of the garage until we get it running again.

 
This is a nice setup since the driveway is on hill and pushing the Mustang in and out of the garage would be dangerous. We also put two space saver spare tires in front to make it easier to turn since there is no power steering when it's not running.
 
 
This project was very close to dead. It was at the point of becoming a project car cliché, where it just sat until the car was sold off. My intrest was renewed when my brother picked up this car:

 
It is a 2011 Shelby Cobra GT500 with only 4,800 miles on it. It has the SVT package and is very fast! He is looking to do parking lot shows and might try it out on the drag-strip. 
 
This is the motivation I needed to get my Mustang project back on track. I want to be able to park next to his car at these shows and run him at the track with my 4.6 2 valve GT.

I know it's been almost 2 years since my last post and in fact I had just recovered the blog since I had deleted it in Oct. 2020. So this project was really dead. It was my brother getting into the Mustang world that has revived this project.
 
I will post more in 2021. I promise!