jsteve5050
01-20-2018, 12:03 PM
Bought: 11-23-98
Delivered: 2-10-99
Build Number: FFR1626K
Donor Car: 1992 Mustang GT 1FACP42E8NF155141 with 68,000 miles
Well as you can see, I have had this car for a long time and figured that I would do a build thread since I am now lucky enough to be able to complete it with a very special group of people. I work for Ford Motor Company and the team that will be helping me does or has. I am also fortunate that they are very skilled at car builds as most of this team has built several cars together with the first being an original Ford GT40 for the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Hall of Fame Museum. Here is a link to their previous work.
http://performance.ford.com/…/ford-engineers-volunteer-tale…
Background
I thought everyone might be curious of the background on the car so I will give a brief history. As you can see this car was bought a long time ago, actually, before I came to Ford and when I still worked at the family car business. My Dad and I had planned to build this car with the sole purpose of selling it to see if we could make some money finishing these off for people. Once we received the car we did a decent amount of the work to it like getting the body painted and finding a donor car. The donor car was bought from a salvage auction and was in great running condition. We stripped the car and sold the body to a guy in Grand Rapids that used it for a drag car and we just used the engine and trans from it. Once I came to Ford we decided that we would keep it and make it a little nicer by putting in a fuel cell, aftermarket flaming river steering rack and a fuel and ignition system that could support nitrous. My wife and I did do some of the fabrication work on the car with her doing a majority of fitting the aluminum interior and making the heat shields for the foot boxes. Unfortunately, life got in the way and over the next 20 years we got married, built two houses, got three degrees and had our son Jimmy along with the fact I could take nice fast cars home from work which caused our interest to go down in the car. In 2011 my father passed away and it went back to one of our previous employees to complete it. He made progress on it but wasn’t very motivated either since he was essentially completing it as a favor to the family.
Delivered: 2-10-99
Build Number: FFR1626K
Donor Car: 1992 Mustang GT 1FACP42E8NF155141 with 68,000 miles
Well as you can see, I have had this car for a long time and figured that I would do a build thread since I am now lucky enough to be able to complete it with a very special group of people. I work for Ford Motor Company and the team that will be helping me does or has. I am also fortunate that they are very skilled at car builds as most of this team has built several cars together with the first being an original Ford GT40 for the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Hall of Fame Museum. Here is a link to their previous work.
http://performance.ford.com/…/ford-engineers-volunteer-tale…
Background
I thought everyone might be curious of the background on the car so I will give a brief history. As you can see this car was bought a long time ago, actually, before I came to Ford and when I still worked at the family car business. My Dad and I had planned to build this car with the sole purpose of selling it to see if we could make some money finishing these off for people. Once we received the car we did a decent amount of the work to it like getting the body painted and finding a donor car. The donor car was bought from a salvage auction and was in great running condition. We stripped the car and sold the body to a guy in Grand Rapids that used it for a drag car and we just used the engine and trans from it. Once I came to Ford we decided that we would keep it and make it a little nicer by putting in a fuel cell, aftermarket flaming river steering rack and a fuel and ignition system that could support nitrous. My wife and I did do some of the fabrication work on the car with her doing a majority of fitting the aluminum interior and making the heat shields for the foot boxes. Unfortunately, life got in the way and over the next 20 years we got married, built two houses, got three degrees and had our son Jimmy along with the fact I could take nice fast cars home from work which caused our interest to go down in the car. In 2011 my father passed away and it went back to one of our previous employees to complete it. He made progress on it but wasn’t very motivated either since he was essentially completing it as a favor to the family.