One More Thing I Hate

[yukisho]

So since I got the stang, I have found so many things done half ass'ed or rigged to work kinda-ish. First was the tail light zip tied cause the previous owner lost the bolts, then was a bolt taken off of the door hing and used as a wedge for the radiator and now the trunk latch. Someone took a torch to the holes. Oh and the rear bumper is a cobra bumper that doesn't fit right along with the cobra emblems that were sideways.

 

[Chythar]

Why would someone torch the holes on the trunk latch?

The only reason I could think of someone doing that is if the body was twisted enough and there wasn't enough play in the holes to let the deck lid lay flat.

I feel for you on the jury-rigged crap. My old green GT (bought from an owner in Kansas) had so many things wrong, it took years of work to straighten the worst of them out. I swear, that car hated me - every project had cost and time overruns due to rusted bolts or thinks just fixed wrong. And it kept dumping Kansas dirt on me at just the wrong times. Remove a stuck bolt, get the part free - and along comes a shower of dust in my face. Glad I finally sold the b*stard.

 

[yukisho]

Yeah I know it was in an accident on the passenger rear, the body seems straight and so it the frame so it probably moved some things around, but when I took the latch off, it went just fine to it's original spot. It had loosened and the trunk bounced a little while I was driving. I'm just tired of the back-waters solutions these people used. It seems everytime something breaks, it's because of them. Oh and the passenger mirror assembly is glued on with what looks like gorilla glue, but that's just the cover. And someone quick steel'ed the antenna in...

 

[xEzekial]

yeah i just bought a 95 gt and over the course of inspecting the car over with my best friend who is a big time mustang guy/mechanic at the ford dealership, we found some interesting rigging on my car. the coil was replaced with something much bigger, the exhaust is welded entirely together from headers back and theres no connection in the midpipes, which i thought was weird.

i guess thats what happens when you buy a 15 year old car, there was plenty of time in history for people to rig them up.

 

[ProKiller]

6 years later and i'm still finding screwy things with my car. I'm afraid to touch a massive clump of wires under the dash that i have no idea what they are for. I feel your pain brother

 

[SableSal]

Luckily my Mustang was just abused and not really modified. I lucked out. All pretty much stock from day one. Just has body work that needs to be done...

I wonder if the car appreciates us as it's new owner, and thanks us that we've taken them away from their previous owner... lol

 

[yukisho]

I hope so. The guy I got mine from lived out in this little redneck town so I hope it appreciates the time and work I put into it to keep it running and lookin as good as it can right now.