1979 Ford Mustang 5.0 V8

The story so far

I had always wanted an old-school American V8, and this Mustang was the opening. It still has its factory 302 — a carbureted 5.0L V8 — backed by an automatic, with under ≈100,000 km showing. It also came with a much larger problem: years abandoned and open to the weather have left the car with serious frame and structural rot, and water has been through it. Whether it will even start, and whether it is worth saving at all, is still an open question — and that uncertainty is the whole point of this one. The story picks up on the channel once the episode is ready.

What comes next

Build updates, the video episodes, and the parts and tools that go into this car will be posted here as the work happens. Nothing is padded out with guesswork in the meantime.