Switchblade from Monster Garage at Barrett-Jackson

[Wayne's 88 GT]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTkXAQ6Kk6M&feature=related

Cool car, not practical but I dont care for the wheels :thumbsdown1:

[Silver91Hatch]

I think the announcer was wrong in saying the 90 model verts were all coupes first then trucked to be cut up into verts, that was the 83-84 or 84-85 cars, correct???

[Notch93]

I remember watching that sell, seems like for $7,300 they got a good deal.

[Notch93]

I think the announcer was wrong in saying the 90 model verts were all coupes first then trucked to be cut up into verts, that was the 83-84 or 84-85 cars, correct???

I thought all the fox verts through 93 were made from coupes.

[Silver91Hatch]

http://bradbarnett.net/mustangs/timeline/79-86/83/index.htm

[Notch93]

http://bradbarnett.net/mustangs/timeline/79-86/83/index.htm

Doesn't say when they stopped doing it that way.

[Silver91Hatch]

No. but I think they only did it 1 year. I think...

[Notch93]

No. but I think they only did it 1 year. I think...

Found this below, but I'm waiting on my fathers friend who built Fords in Dearborn until 1998 to call back. He will know 100% for sure.


"We decided that we wouldn't let the vendors do our job," Edsel Ford II told Car and Driver. "We would make sure that when someone buys a Mustang convertible, it lives up to our standards of quality."

A small area of the big Dearborn plant was set aside for turning notchbacks into convertibles. As C/D's Michael Jordan related, this involved removing the roof; reinforcing the windshield pillars and cowl/dashboard area; substituting stiffer rear-quarter panels; and adding side members (just above the rockers), a thicker taillight panel, and a stiffening crossmember between the rear wheel arches.