Good places to buy restored/in need of restoration Mustang? JRS? Lashout?

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Basically me and Dad might be going halfs on either a fully restored Fastback or one we can do ourselves.

Where are good places to look? deal with?

Many Thanks :)
 
Go get a copy of Classic American, American Car World & Custom Car, from your local Smiths or suitable magazine vendor.

Seconded. Also, do keep a watch on the "American" classic car section of Ebay - some good stuff pops up on there once in a while. With a 'stang, you'd have to go and check out any car that you wanted to buy because like most of their contemporaries they can hide nigh-on terminal rot - and while tinworm is nice and easy to sort in the US (with panels and whole bodies from AZ cars available) it's a tiny bit more of a PITA in the UK.

Aim for the best body you can, even if the vroom-vroom bits are scrap. They're easy to sort compared with the body, which I suspect both you and your father know well enough but it cannot be overstated.
 
Seconded. Also, do keep a watch on the "American" classic car section of Ebay - some good stuff pops up on there once in a while. With a 'stang, you'd have to go and check out any car that you wanted to buy because like most of their contemporaries they can hide nigh-on terminal rot - and while tinworm is nice and easy to sort in the US (with panels and whole bodies from AZ cars available) it's a tiny bit more of a PITA in the UK.

Aim for the best body you can, even if the vroom-vroom bits are scrap. They're easy to sort compared with the body, which I suspect both you and your father know well enough but it cannot be overstated.

Indeed, we know all about rust :D (that Cougar didn't restore it self you know! (and the floors not original :D))

Tbh the waaaaaaaab bits don't matter too much as it'll be getting a 351 lump in it one way or the other :D - if it's got one already, bargain! if not, crate engine it is hehe.

Thanks for the info, shall keep my eyes pealed....hopefully we shall have something else that goes 'glug glug glug' in the yard before Christmas :cool:
 
I take it you're on about the Cleveland 351 rather than the Windsor, since the Cleveland was the performance motor. Ford made a Boss 351 out of it for '71 - 11.1:1 compression (what they claimed, some sources say higher), nodular iron block and crank, modified heads, forged rods and forged domed pistons. Rated (conservatively) at 330hp.

The Windsor is still a viable route, though. Plenty of them about (Christ, they built them for decades) and they take a bit more abuse than a Cleveland. You could even build a Clevor - Windsor bottom end for the most part, custom pistons, modified Cleveland heads. The Clevor designation sometimes gets slapped on the 351 M (they did love that engine size, didn't they?) - the M is basically a short-stroke 400, compared with the other two it weighs more and it's bigger and the bellhousing bolts are arranged differently and it's probably not the best route to go down.
 
I'm not sure on the different engines mate :) - Lots to read up on, and theres no major rush either, it'll probably take a couple of years if it's being restored anyway. The Cougar took 6!
 
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