Will mustang shock towers work ??

Boy have I got a deal for you guys. Excellent parts car for this swap, everything in front of the windshield is in great shape. 36,000 original mile excellent running Boss 429 engine with 4 speed trans. Just think, your very own B9 Maverick for the rock bottom price of $75,000! We'll even throw in a free 7.5 inch rearend from my '69.5 so I don't have to haul it in for scrap next week. What a deal!

 

What's stopping you from shoving the frame rails and front suspension under one of your Mavs?
I just talk about it would be a neat idea, I could never afford the parts to do it. You got the stuff right there.

If I had the means, I would take a Mav and turn the outside into a pristine 72 Grabber, then put the Boss engine bay under it with the engine/tranny.
Do it all up, inside and out like it was stock and do it up concours looking like Dan's Grabber.
Really freak some people out to roll up to a car show and pop the hood.
The worst thing I can see about it is getting some 15" Magnums modded to the proper backspace on the front.

 

You'd take cash right, soooo.. that be 7,500,000 pennies. It maybe awhile. What happened to it , was the poor thing burned. Hope the picture just makes it look like it.

 

Yea, that would be perfect for my '74 Grabber. What's stopping me? Something about the title being in my grandfather's name and him wanting 70 grand for it.

 

hell Jamie you make all the dough you can "inhariet"(SP) the car , sure would be cool

if i had the dough id do it for sure

 

Long story, but yea, it burned along with my uncles entire house (16 rooms, built in 1887 a hotel) which had been in our family for generations and had generations of family heirlooms dateing back to the 1700's in it. The car was just insult to injury... It burned on 1/28/06. Last picture is of where the house was a year later. Car belongs to my grandpa. Was an all original 36,000 mile car in great condition. A fire fighter would not allow them to drag it away from the house (stood in front of my uncles truck and threatened to file charges if he so much as bumped into him with teh truck), so they watched it burn with the house... I was supposed to be there working on it, but decided I would come up the next day. Probably good I wasn't there. Because there would have been no stopping me from getting that car away from that house...

 

why wouldnt they let him pull the car out

 

I wouldn't have given him a reason to file charges, but I would have gotten to the house.
If I was in your shoes, I might sue that particular firefighter for the value of the damage to the car.
You probably wouldn't win, but you do have a reasonable case to try IMO.
As valueable as that car is.

Either that, or take it out of his hide in a dark alley!
Dave

 

i about puked when i read this jamie! i cant for the life of me believe the reasoning. i have numerous friends who are emts/firefighters here in sarasota, and not one of em said they wouldnt of done something for the car(on the way to the house) if the car gets scrapped keep an eye out for the arsehole f/fighter to try and scoop it up. i hope for the lords sake you guys had insurance, i know my homeowners would cover catastrophic on the property, i hope yours does as well. man... all i can say is best of luck, oh and tell your grandpop im sorry for his loss

 

He got as far as getting a chain hooked to the back of the car. At that point, the fire was contained to the inside of the house, but there was already intense heat outside. My uncle said he could hear and smell his hair fizzleing as he hooked the chain to the car. He tried to drag it out, but his truck was just spinning tires in the grass because the car was locked, in gear, with the parking brake on. The keys were in the burning house (I later found them melted halfway inside a salt shaker). I personally would have just busted a window out of the car and got it out of gear. Small price to pay to save the rest of the car. But I guess it was so frantic at the time, nobody really stopped to think for a minute. My uncle went to my grandparents house to get a longer chain so he could get his truck out on the road and pull it with better traction. When he got back, the fire dept. had arrived. He started to back up closer to the car, and the fire fighter stopped him. He got out and said he just wanted to hook the longer chain to the one that was already on the car. They held him back. From what I hear, it got very ugly when they wouldn't let him even hook the chain on. The car was still intact at that point. They later said they wouldn't let him hook onto it because his truck would have just burst into flames because of the heat. There was also a propane tank less then 10 feet from the car that supplied the house that was glowing red hot and expanding. They didn't want anyone near that and were about to shut down all the roads within a half mile of the house if it got any worse. I doubt a lawsuite would get anywhere because they would probably just say the fire dept. was trying to keep anyone from getting hurt.

The car had liability only since it was rarely driven and mainly sat in storage. It is now back in storage, and not going anywhere anytime soon by the looks of things. The house had no insurance because the insurance company wanted like 9,000 worth of electrical work done before they would write a policy on it. They looked into getting insurance on the house like 2 weeks before it burned down... They weren't able to figgure out what started the fire.

Sorry to get the thread off topic...

 

sorry to hear it. and actually im glad there were more factors than i thought involved,i spose for safetys sake the glowin propane tank mighta slowed me down...but some how i doubt it. best of luck to you all.

 

Yeah, can't argue that.
I thought the guy stopped him right off the bat.
Speaking of bat...
The window would have been toast and car moved before the FD showed up if I was there.
Hindsight is 20/20...
Sorry about the loss.
Really sux!

 

Terrible, terrible thing to happen. Hopefully no one was hurt. There is still hope for the car though, just about every part is reproduced. My friends maverick burned up in his garage but it was not at all like what happen to you. Don't know what started it but the whole car went up with the garage and his two neighbors garages. No saving that one.

 

while reading hot rod a while back i remember a story titled hashed hemi. it was in referance to a gentleman by the name of bob mosher. he was a well known max wedge and hemi clone builder. seems he lost one of his cars in a july 4th weekend fire while stored at a friends place. a 65 turquoise coronet sedan valued at 90k. unfortunately he hadnt upgraded his coverage to reflect appreciated value, and they only covered it for 55. worst part was when the fire crews used bulldozers to consolidate the still smoldering wreckage and broke the car into 3 pieces. ( ouch...dats gotta hurt!)

 

Sorry, that I haven't gotten pictures and measurements. Kind of been busy, gonna be the weekend before I find time.