I recently purchased a 1988 GT as a new project car and I'm excited. I don't have an unlimited budget so I had to do my homework and be patient, that was the hard part for me. As I started looking for a car I wanted something pre 1991 for the antique tags. saves a little insurance and no inspections needed here in Pa. So I needed to find some thing that either had a good body and interior and no engine & trans or a fairly good engine but a body that needed a little work, didn't have a budget to do everything. So I looked and waited and looked and waited, finally this 88 popped up locally and I think it was a good buy and it fit my needs.
So this 88 had a nice and fresh 5.0 with some decent work done to it, bored 30 over, gt40 heads, x cam, edelbrock intake w/ 70mm tb & shorty headers. All this is info provided by seller ??, 5sp with 4:11 gears. The rear brakes have been swapped for a disc brake set up. The car sounds awesome and runs hard, came with 245/45/17 tires on cobra 17x 9 rims.
So this is my jump off point, someone put a terrible black paint job on it and boy was it put on thick. Not a bad 40' looker but it all had to come off. Interior was in pretty good shape, prior owner was in the process of installing new carpet so all the interior trim was off, but he did have it all, I think the front seats had been recovered with factory covers at one time.
I have finished sanding the entire car down to bare metal, shooting it with epoxy self etching primer and then spraying on a good gray 2k primer and that's where we are right now.
I'll leave it in primer till the weather cools off then I'll pull it off the road to finish the final paint prep and spray it with a candy apple blue, that's my plan right now anyway.
So I'll post updates as I go, haven't done any body work or painting for a long while, restored a 1965 stang back in the early 80's, I swapped a 4.6 into my 2001 ranger couple years ago so I needed something to keep me busy now that I'm retired.
So this 88 had a nice and fresh 5.0 with some decent work done to it, bored 30 over, gt40 heads, x cam, edelbrock intake w/ 70mm tb & shorty headers. All this is info provided by seller ??, 5sp with 4:11 gears. The rear brakes have been swapped for a disc brake set up. The car sounds awesome and runs hard, came with 245/45/17 tires on cobra 17x 9 rims.
So this is my jump off point, someone put a terrible black paint job on it and boy was it put on thick. Not a bad 40' looker but it all had to come off. Interior was in pretty good shape, prior owner was in the process of installing new carpet so all the interior trim was off, but he did have it all, I think the front seats had been recovered with factory covers at one time.
I have finished sanding the entire car down to bare metal, shooting it with epoxy self etching primer and then spraying on a good gray 2k primer and that's where we are right now.
I'll leave it in primer till the weather cools off then I'll pull it off the road to finish the final paint prep and spray it with a candy apple blue, that's my plan right now anyway.
So I'll post updates as I go, haven't done any body work or painting for a long while, restored a 1965 stang back in the early 80's, I swapped a 4.6 into my 2001 ranger couple years ago so I needed something to keep me busy now that I'm retired.