Here we have a super rare '69 GT convertible, bought out of New Jersey, only miles from the original Metuchen assembly plant, where it was produced in October of '68, at the start of the '69 model year. We found the car online and the advertisement was very short and to the point, yet lacking detail. It simply read, "1969 Mustang convertible. Found on private property, looks to be a 4 speed." Well, I couldn't believe my eyes, as I quickly identified it as a possible GT and got to emailing the seller right away, to have him send me details of the car to confirm what I thought and before long, I had that detail. A quick call to my good buddy, Kevin Marti and he confirmed by Ford records, that the car was the real deal. It's a 351 windsor powered, 4 speed, 9" 3.25:1 ratio GT convertible, gulfstream aqua in colour with white decor trim, rimblow steering wheel, console, 12 slot wheels and disc brakes.
The car was immediately purchased and shipped to California, where it was checked out and later shipped to Australia. The car sat around from 1976 till 2006 when we bought it, and has sat around for a very long time since purchase, but the resto has finally started on it. The pictures below are as the car was found and as we progress down the page, you'll see updates to the extensive bodywork that we're having to do, to bring this very rare beast back to life. Our precision craftsman, Vic, is responsible for the bodywork on this and as you'll see from the pics below, is doing an amazing job.
The car was immediately purchased and shipped to California, where it was checked out and later shipped to Australia. The car sat around from 1976 till 2006 when we bought it, and has sat around for a very long time since purchase, but the resto has finally started on it. The pictures below are as the car was found and as we progress down the page, you'll see updates to the extensive bodywork that we're having to do, to bring this very rare beast back to life. Our precision craftsman, Vic, is responsible for the bodywork on this and as you'll see from the pics below, is doing an amazing job.
Well, now that we had the car, we started to acquire the parts that we needed to make it better and ease the burden on restoration. We found that the trunk lid was heavily rusted out in the back lip, so found a date correct, original paint trunk lid at the wreckers that was perfect and replaced that.
The floor was hacked up for the shifter, so we cut a section of floor from the same wreckers to rectify that, with nice original pieces, even though from a '70, as we'll be using a new one piece floor section to replace the rusted floor.
The door skins and frames were simply cactus and more work than sensible, so at that same wreckers, I found a '69 coupe that had been rolled over in a crash, and grabbed those door shells. They were absolutely perfect frames, but the skins were obviously trashed (check out the pics below..!), but a reskin rectified that, so $25 per door shell, a new skin and 45 mins to reskin after media blasting the insides of the frames and they were fixed.
The floor was hacked up for the shifter, so we cut a section of floor from the same wreckers to rectify that, with nice original pieces, even though from a '70, as we'll be using a new one piece floor section to replace the rusted floor.
The door skins and frames were simply cactus and more work than sensible, so at that same wreckers, I found a '69 coupe that had been rolled over in a crash, and grabbed those door shells. They were absolutely perfect frames, but the skins were obviously trashed (check out the pics below..!), but a reskin rectified that, so $25 per door shell, a new skin and 45 mins to reskin after media blasting the insides of the frames and they were fixed.