Well it is not that easy, i am getting a project 66 vert 289 3 speed from my wife's grandpa. He was out visiting last month and i was showing hime my 80 jeep cj5 that i finished restoring (i had one in college and loved it so i got another).
anyway he told me that he was no longer going to restore his collection of 65 - 66 verts (yeah that is right COLLECTION). in the 80's he snached up about 10-12 65-66 vert v-8 cars.. stored them in his barn on the farm and slowly would restore one every 3- 5 years or so.. then sell them it off and do another.
anyway he seemed pretty impressed with my restoration work on my cj so he said if i wanted one of his vert projects i could come out and get one. You see my wife learned to drive on one of them, and we have both been dropping hints that we would love to restore one... i dont know much about the car, other than it is a 66 vert 289 3 speed car manual top, blue with white top/ interior. like i said it has been in a barn for 20 years but he said it is restorable, i know it has rust so i will be tearing it down to the shell.. and doing this one right.
so i will be taking a trip from Denver CO to Chicago to pick it up. I will be driving a 2002 jeep grand cherokee with the 4.7 v8. my thoughts are getting a u-haul auto transport trailer for a one way trip from chicago to denver. My wife, 10 month daughter and i will take a week to visit and sight see then ****** up the free-stang and head back.. i looked into a dolly but i am relly turned off by the idea other that it is half the price of the trailer.. i keep thinking if i am dollying a convert that has rust (dont know the extent yet) i dont want to be flexing anything or mis-aligning anything for the 15 hour road trip.. plus i think a trailer is much safer for us and the stang..
anyway just thought i would share the excitement. i will keep you all posted!
anyway he seemed pretty impressed with my restoration work on my cj so he said if i wanted one of his vert projects i could come out and get one. You see my wife learned to drive on one of them, and we have both been dropping hints that we would love to restore one... i dont know much about the car, other than it is a 66 vert 289 3 speed car manual top, blue with white top/ interior. like i said it has been in a barn for 20 years but he said it is restorable, i know it has rust so i will be tearing it down to the shell.. and doing this one right.
so i will be taking a trip from Denver CO to Chicago to pick it up. I will be driving a 2002 jeep grand cherokee with the 4.7 v8. my thoughts are getting a u-haul auto transport trailer for a one way trip from chicago to denver. My wife, 10 month daughter and i will take a week to visit and sight see then ****** up the free-stang and head back.. i looked into a dolly but i am relly turned off by the idea other that it is half the price of the trailer.. i keep thinking if i am dollying a convert that has rust (dont know the extent yet) i dont want to be flexing anything or mis-aligning anything for the 15 hour road trip.. plus i think a trailer is much safer for us and the stang..
anyway just thought i would share the excitement. i will keep you all posted!
anyway he said this one has been stored since the early 80's and was a daily driver before he parked it.. Grandpa was taking 2 of the tires into town to get them repaired since they would leak down after a few hours.. (trailer transport only). 
