1965 Ford Mustang Convertible
This 65 started its life as a 6 cylinder. It will get the full treatment here at the sspeed shop. It will be sandblasted, have steel replaced that is far gone, and get new paint. Then the fun starts, full 5 lug conversion, 4 wheel disc brakes, pony interior, and NEW 400hp 347 stroker v8 with a 5 speed manual. Hidden under the air filter is a port injection fuel system, lots of custom hand-made parts on this car too. The bleand of vintage and modern
Custom, Classic, & Hot Rod
We love this build, it had it all. Custom made parts like this wicked Style Bar, the real Walnut and aluminum middle console, then it still had some classic, 60’s style. Scroll down this page and see the build from start to finish.
Smooth & Clean
Those 60’s Mustang lines wrapped in Wimbledon White and Guardsman Blue
Check out the build process below
“Make it Cool”
Easy stuff on the white board for this car. It needs EVERYTHING.
A nice car but slow, needs to be re-freshened and it is missing 2 cylinders…?
Speed Shop, NOT Cruise Shop
Nice car but it needs a full rebuild to make it cool. 5 lugs, fresh paint and a V8.
V8’s in this shop
Anyone that has spent time with Josh knows how he feels about the American V8. We are so proud we get to work on these great cars and make them cooler and faster for the next generation.
One step at a time the car comes apart. We document every part and try to reuse as much factory great parts that we can. Once this car is fully disassembled it gets media blasted. Then we have a clean start to build a perfect machine.
Fresh start with clean metal. After blasting the metal is treated and the body work begins. We patch as much as we can with fresh metal and thin coat filler to make nice clean lines.
The body work stage…boo. This is a step that must be done to make a great car look great. We just want to make fast stuff.
Stripes
Stripes
AND more Stripes
We lay out all the stripes after the white is down, ready for blue then everything gets cleared. We ran these stripes in the traditional taper style the way Shelby did back in the day.
Glossy
After all the color is down 4 coats of clear go on.
The color combination is legendary. This customer wanted a white engine bay instead of the standard matte black. Its one of the many small changes made to this car to help push the custom style of a classic car. We tried to push that idea on the whole build. Classic but Custom.
The interior gets the 60’s blue dash paint, while the floor gets coated in a “bed liner” style of thermo protectant, color coated to match the paint.
Colors coming together.
Clean look of a truly legendary color combo.
The full car was rubberized undercoated after paint. This was also applied to the inner fenders.
DYNAMAT!!
This 65 really got the treatment, full under carpet install of Dynamat. This helps with noise, vibration and heat.
4-wheel, power disc brakes go on this amazing 1965.
347 Stroker
A stroked 302 is installed in this build, with it pushing out over 400HP it will move very nice.
Coming back together. Every step gets it closer to running, driving and enjoying the road again.
New factory style parts are used in cars like this where the track will never be seen and the racing parts would be unneeded and add harshness to the drive for no reason.
The new fuel tank is a reminder that no part goes untouched. This will have a custom, in tank fuel pump to help supply out high pressure fuel injection. But you still fill it up in that classic way!
Shelby wheels with BFG tires, a great combo for a classic Mustang.
More and more parts go in everyday. All with the same goal of building the best vintage cars we can.
A little different
This dash might look classic but don’t let it fool you. This is a set-up from Dakota Digital and it is so smart it has a main brain and it connects with a Cat5 cable.
Factory parts made new wherever we can. Most parts on these classic cars can be reused. We sandblast, paint and powder coat anything we can to keep the vintage cars soul alive.
Speed Shop
We love that we save and restore classic cars and trucks, but we really love making things fast. This classic Mustang is starting to look a little more Hot Rod.
Some crazy parts. This car had some amazing parts installed like these hydraulic Aluminum hood hinges
Convertible
This car was clean, not much rust and most everything was “there” so for the top we just needed to re-paint the frame and install some new tack strips and we are ready to rock. This car was originally a manual roof, we converted it to hydraulic.
The underside parts get installed with this wood template we found in an old 60’s Ford manual. Very helpful with this and getting the rear window set just right.
Top installed and ready to be cleaned and treated.
Very cool TMI trunk kit seals off the rear and really finishes the trunk of a vintage car.
Let there be Lights!
Along with some other changes we added the GT fog lights to this ‘65.
A Custom “Style Bar” was added and wrapped in seat matching vinyl. We also made the boxes below that tie into the factory parts and CNC’ed some extensions for the window cranks. Along with all that, these are power windows, hiding as crank. Just move the handle down or up about 1/8” and let the window roll.
Underside
This is a great photo taken as the custom Stainless exhaust was being made. It shows off some real cool parts. The “bed liner” style car color protection and the rubber undercoating. Plus the 5 speed trans, long tube headers and the awesome Rack & Pinion from TCP.
