Virginia Classic Mustang Blog: June 2014

Jun 30, 2014

New Part! 65-66 Mustang Heat Dash Control Plate Retainers

1965 and 1966 Mustang Heater Dash Control Plate Retainers
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They are small parts, but when you are putting something together on your Mustang, they become a lot bigger! We now have the small retainers that fit on the backside of the dash and hold the chrome 65-66 Mustang heat dash plate onto the metal part of the dash.

These retainers fit over the studs on the back of the plate and then the nuts are installed. Our part number is IN-5601. These retainers are formed just like the originals and are also zinc plated like the originals.

Below we have also posted a picture of the dash plate itself.

1965-1966 Heater Dash Chrome Control Plate
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Jun 27, 2014

New Mustang Steering Wheels

GT Retro Mustang Steering Wheel
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We are proud to announce a whole new line of Mustang Steering Wheels from GT Performance Products. It's always exciting to offer parts like this when they are so darn nice!!!

The pictures don't really do these steering wheels justice. They are far superior to our previous offering of Grant Steering Wheels.

They all feature polished billet aluminum hubs along with polished aluminum Mustang center caps. The horn center cap is secured by a "Sure Lock" O-Ring design that allows the cap to fit easily, snugly, and securely. They all come complete and ready to install with the steering wheel, hub kit, and Mustang center horn button cap.

GT Classic Mustang Wood Steering Wheel
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There are three versions available for 64 1/2 Mustangs with Generators, 65-67 Mustangs, and 68-78 Mustangs. We have the GT Classic Series that features either a traditional "old school" Black Foam grip or a Genuine Wood Grip (with a beautiful clear finish!). Both of these feature super nice chrome (front, back, and sides!!) spokes with cool chamfered holes.

The other version is the GT Retro design. This steering wheel features stainless steel construction with brushed spokes, laminated "book-matched" layered wood grip secured with rivets, and a beautiful clear finish on the wood.

GT Classic Mustang Black Foam Steering Wheel
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Here are all the parts numbers with descriptions and links:

IN-7311 64 1/2 Mustang GT Classic Wood Steering Wheel Assembly

IN-7312 65-67 Mustang GT Classic Wood Steering Wheel Assembly

IN-7313 68-78 Mustang GT Classic Wood Steering Wheel Assembly

IN-7331 64 1/2 Mustang GT Classic Black Foam Steering Wheel Assembly

IN-7332 65-67 Mustang GT Classic Black Foam Steering Wheel Assembly

IN-7333 68-78 Mustang GT Classic Black Foam Steering Wheel Assembly

IN-7341 64 1/2 Mustang GT Retro Wood Steering Wheel Assembly

IN-7342 65-67 Mustang GT Retro Wood Steering Wheel Assembly

IN-7343 68-78 Mustang GT Retro Wood Steering Wheel Assembly

For a limited time, enter coupon code " FREESTEERING " and receive free shipping on your order of the steering wheel (and any other small items that may fit in with it) to the US (except HI and AK).

GT Retro Mustang Steering Wheel
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Mustang Steering Wheel
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Jun 25, 2014

1965 Mustang Coupe - Customer Car

1965 Mustang Coupe
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Today we are featuring another customer car. This 1965 Mustang Coupe sports the base 6 cylinder engine with the 3 speed transmission. There are a few more details to take care of, and it will be finished. It was originally purchased for the customer's grandson, but as work began, the grandson was given another car, and Granddad kept this one!

1965 Mustang Coupe
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Jun 23, 2014

2006 Hertz Shelby Mustang For Sale

Here, at Virginia Classic Mustang, we, of course, only handle 1964 1/2 - 73 Mustang parts, so this post is a bit different. Our friend, Troy Kruger at Custom Show Boards has his beautiful 2006 Hertz Shelby Mustang for sale, so we thought we would make a quick post showing the car. If you are interested, please scroll down to the bottom of the post and click on the link.

Rented through LAX - Purchased and sold through none other than Galpin Ford (just like in the 60s) w/ approx 20K miles
Well over $20K spent on enhancements
Whipple HO polished supercharger and related components professionally installed at appx 24K miles
Custom Dyno Tune by the renowned Ray McClelland - Full Throttle Kustomz, LLC
Approx 500 Horsepower - Always tuned at 9 PSI (safe street tune)
Full Repaint 2013 by national award winning hot rod builder/painter Mike Jenson
PPG BC/CC, 4 step wet sanding, progressively buffed, compounded and polished to a show quality perfect finish
All vinyl removed and replaced with hand masked painted gold graphics and buried in clear.
All new Hertz badges, logos, Shelby badges, grill, grill badges, hood pins, etc...
OEM working Sirius with new remote
OEM GT500 rear spoiler (original is available)
New OEM headlights 2013
New OEM windshield and rear-view mirror 2013
New Rotors, pads, Boss 302 brake lines, fluid flush and painted calipers 2013
New GT500 front LCAs, Outer Tie Rods, Rear adjustable Panhard Bar, new bushings 2014
New OEM takeoff Wheels and Tires 2013
New transmission handle with correct O/D lockout switch
Coolant flush 2013
Full Transmission flush 2013
New Whipple Air Cleaner Element 2013
New Whipple Belt 2013
New MAP sensor 2013
Craig's License Plate bracket (no holes in fascia)
Custom Fitted Car Cover
Ford Auxiliary radio adapter hidden in console for iPad or other MP3 device/phone
New accumulator/dryer and proper evacuation/fill of refrigerant 2014
New 3M window tint (30%) professionally installed 2014
New Battery 2014
First place winner in only car show entered - SAAC 39, 2014
Full Hertz and Shelby documentation, badges, plaques.

Please check out this link for more pictures and information.

Jun 20, 2014

Just the Details...1966 GT350 Shelby Mustang

1966 GT350 Shelby Mustang.
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The work continues as our green '66 "driver" Shelby GT350 goes back together. As mentioned, we have chosen to keep many parts of this car original. At the same time, we want the car to function like new, so some items like the suspension and brakes are being replaced, rebuilt, and refinished as necessary.

1966 GT350 Shelby Mustang. The front suspension is now together.
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The upper suspension control arms were rebuilt with NOS ball joints and Ford control arms, new brake rotors, rebuilt brake calipers, Ford lower control arms, new bushings, etc.

1966 GT350 Shelby Mustang. The 4 spd shifter goes together along with the one for 6S033.
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When we purchased the car, it was equipped with a Hurst Competition Plus Shifter. We gathered up an original 4 speed shifter, disassembled it, had all of the pieces plated like original, and reassembled it. There are two shifters pictured here, because we put together one for our '66 Carryover GT350 project at the same time.

1966 GT350 Shelby Mustang. The 4 spd shifter goes together along with the one for 6S033.
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1966 GT350 Shelby Mustang. Original oil pressure sending unit.
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As the engine pieces were prepped, we learned that the '66 Shelby still was running its original oil pressure sending unit. That's very unusual. What is even cooler is the fact that it is date stamped...note the "C6" for March 1966. In our effort to maintain the originality of this car, we decided to reuse this piece since it still works!

1966 GT350 Shelby Mustang. Original oil pressure sending unit.
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Jun 18, 2014

Just the Details...1966 Shelby GT350 Mustang Restoration

1966 GT350 Shelby Mustang. Preparations being made to mount the car on the rotisserie.
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It's been well over a year since we have had an update on the blue '66 Shelby in the shop at Maple Hill Restoration. The work has begun again, so look for a lot of GT350 Shelby updates on this car (6S933) and our '66 Carryover GT350 (6S033) as the restorations continue. We will also have posts with more pictures of our green driver '66 (6S1732) as it continues to go together.

This '66 was original a Sapphire Blue car with no LeMans stripes. It's a super nice car and is all complete. It has been lightly undercoated, so Jeremy is currently stripping that from the underside in order to determine the overspray patterns that will be duplicated.

The exterior was painted white at one time, and that has been stripped also.

Enjoy the pictures!

1966 GT350 Shelby Mustang. Preparations being made to mount the car on the rotisserie.
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1966 GT350 Shelby Mustang. Stripping the undercoating reveals the original reddish sealer on the under side.
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1966 GT350 Shelby Mustang.
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Jun 16, 2014

Customer Car - 1964 1/2 Mustang Coupe - Original Owner

1964 1/2 Mustang Coupe. Original Owner.
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This 1964 1/2 Mustang coupe was restored ten years ago by Maple Hill Restoration. It was recently in Jeremy's shop again for some routine maintenance. It looks just like the day the restoration was completed!

The Mustang is still owned by the original owner, and this June marks the 50th anniversary of the original purchase!

1964 1/2 Mustang Coupe. Original Owner.
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Jun 13, 2014

Just the Details...1966 Mustang Shelby GT350

1966 GT350 Shelby Mustang.
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Jeremy at Maple Hill Restoration continues our "clean up" on our original condition '66 Mustang Shelby GT350. The last owner painted the engine block black way back in 1972, so we chose to paint it the correct color blue. All of the aluminum pieces will be installed this week, and we will have another post soon!

1966 GT350 Shelby Mustang. The clean up continues.
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1966 GT350 Shelby Mustang. We chose to keep the original finish on the inner fender aprons.
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1966 GT350 Shelby Mustang. The original fuel sending unit was still in the car, and it works!
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1966 GT350 Shelby Mustang. The engine is prepped for paint.
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1966 GT350 Shelby Mustang. The engine gets the proper color.
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1966 GT350 Shelby Mustang.
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1966 GT350 Shelby Mustang. Parts ready to go back on!
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Jun 11, 2014

Customer Car - 1966 Mustang Fastback Drag Car

We always love to feature customer cars.

Here is the story from the owner:

Not long ago I sent you some Photos of my Mustang collection (64 1/2 convertible, 65 HiPo GT coupe and a 77 Cobra II).

I thought you might like to see some photos of my most recent acquisition... a 1966 Mustang fastback drag car. I purchased this car last November because I always wanted a fastback to complete my early collection. As you can see this is not a typical ground up restoration and it certainly wouldn't win the thoroughbred class at MCA, but the car does have an interesting history.

It is one of the original NHRA, IHRA drag cars built in the mid sixties so it has been a drag car all its life. I am trying to track down the cars complete history which has been part of the fun. So far I believe the car was built in Texas by Tom Hardy for a gentleman in Maryland where it spent most of its life. I purchased the car in Virginia.

Since I bought it my son and I have shown it at a local car show (drew a lot of attention) It was raced in late May at Rockingham where it ran a 6.0 @ 114.8 mph in the 1/8th mile. Not too bad for an old war horse. ( I call her "Bucket list"). You don't see many fastbacks at the at the drag strip (a lot of coupes) so this car draws a lot of attention as well as a ton of questions. It is fun owning a piece of Mustang history and just wanted to share.

Jun 6, 2014

New! 65-66 and 67-73 Mustang Radios - AM/FM USB iPod Dock

1965-66 Mustang Radio.
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We were extremely disappointed when the reproduction 65-66 AM/FM Mustang Radios were discontinued.

We just got in the replacement for this radio, and we could not be more pleased!

These new Mustang radios are fantastic! They feature an original, vintage look, but with a flick of the slide bar, the digital LCD display shows. Both models, of course, fit the factory dash (65-66) or radio bezel (67-73) with no modification. They feature all of the modern "bells and whistles" like 300 peak watts, iPod control, USB port, color select LCD lights, and more.

As mentioned, there are two versions to fit your particular model Mustang:

RD-9611 65-66 Mustang AM / FM / iPod Doc / USB Radio

RD-9612 67-73 Mustang AM / FM / iPod Doc / USB Radio

Click on either above link for more information.