Picked up the '69 today!

Kind of afraid to post this because of the pics Frank has. We had some technical difficulties with my grandpa's 35 year old car dolly.

Anyway, got the car to my house to drop of my bro and I am about to head on to NC to unload it and everything. I've got another 100 miles to go with it on the dolly still, but so far it's pulling great. Got stuck in minimal traffic on I-285 and I-85 North thank god.

It's a great car. My grandpa, grandma mom and dad all love it, which I was kind of surprised about since I have never got much positive response about any of the other ones I've bought. My grandpa just dosen't like the color, which he calls "baby s#!t brown". This car is a definate keeper. I can't wait to get it on the road.

Frank is a truly great guy to deal with. Can't say enough about him on this deal. Thanks Frank.

I'm off to NC. Later..

 

That Maverick looks solid!

 

looks like a nice car.

 

Congratulations!

 

Congrats Jamie...looks like that's gonna make a great car!

 

Congrats

Wonder how fast you can get it on the road.

 

Should be a lot of fun...

 

pictures???? we'll see when jamie gets home...don't want to talk about him behind his back ...frank...

 

Good looking Mav Jamie

 

Thanks guys. It isn't rust free, but it is extreamly solid and in great condition to be an all original 37 year old car. I pulled the interior out looking for rust, yea right. The floors still have the factory sound deadener under the carpet and under the sound deadener the floors are flawless, not a spec of rust. The gas tank is solid as a rock and appears to be rust free inside. The cowl is rust free, trunk and everywhere else is real solid. The paint is about 85% original. Judgeing by the condition the suspension and door hinges are in, me and my grandpa agree that the 75,000 miles it's showing is probably 175,000. It was originally a 200/C4 car built in Canada. The 999 report from Ford should be here anytime.

Now for the ugly:

The car has been lightly hit in the driver's side quarter panel. I pulled the rear arm rest panels off and looked at the back side and you can see where someone drilled several holes in a line to pull the panel back out. Then there is a little filler comeing through the holes where they skimmed it and repainted that area. The inside has been coated with some sort of black tar looking stuff, whereas the passenger side is still the factory splatter paint. The drivers side down behind the rear wheel has a pin hole in it.

The roof will also need attention. I don't know if someone stood on top of it or what, but it has been dented in and then banged back out at some point, leaving it wavy in a few places. The brace that runs under the roof in the middle that the dome light screws to is still bent down, although should be easy to bend back into place. I figgure the windsheild has been replaced at some point also, because the rubber seal around it isn't all cracked to heck like my other Mavericks and I found pieces of broken safety glass under the carpet. The rocker panel on the drivers side will also need a little work. It looks like someone banged it on curb or something just like I did to my '74 Grabber. There is no rust or anything, but they did a poor job of repairing it. And of course it has the normal rust up in the battery tray area.

The car is overall very good. My '76 parts car will provide any replacement metal it needs. Any decent body many should be able to repair the damage easily. It will also get the disc brakes and 5 lug rear from the '76. I hooked a battery to it and all the lights, turn signals, idiot lights, cheapo radio and everything work great. Solenoid clicks when you turn the key, so I guess everything is well as far as the wireing goes. Car still has the factory Ford keys.

I am not going to get it on the road right this second because I've got other obligations to take care of first. I do plan to have it on the road by September or October though. First thing I will do when I get it going is get the body in shape.

For now it is sitting in the field in NC next to my '74 Grabber and '76 2 door.

 

Sounds like a great car! Worthy of an NOS 1/4 panel to fix the damage. Don't you have a garage you can store it in? Shame to leave it out in a field ...

 

I am working on a place to work on it (and my Grabber) right now. Just a shed about the size of a 2 car garage with about a 10 foot high roof. Nothing great, but it will be out of the weather. My grandpa has been talking about building something similar to Frank's garage also. Lord knows we have plenty of space up here. That would be real nice.

I agree on the NOS panel. I'm not going to be takeing on the body work myself, I'd much rather pay someone to do it right the first time. I think I'm going to just get it painted satin black until I have the money to get it painted real nice. The Torque Thrust II's are definately going on it and one of those front chin spoilers (yea I've already got this planned in my head ).

My brother just got another job also, so we're going to be able to start dumping some bucks into our cars again like we did with the Grabber back when we first got it. :bananaman

 

Numbers...

Just thought I would post the numbers I have found on the car so far.

The VIN is 0X91T1xxxxx

Body: 62A
Color: K
Date: 17G
DSO: 21
Axel: 5
Trans: W

The "Date: 17G" throws me off here. My grandpa's Mustang's have that, but none of my other Mavericks do. I'm guessing this is a 1969 thing. I'm also assumeing "Axel: 5" stands for the 7.5 rearend it has.

It has a tag screwed to the lower passenger side of the radiator support with the numbers:

0948 21 15G
T1xxxxx 45
INTER
K YEL MET 1 BLK

Then I found a metal tag attached to the springs in the rear seat with the numbers:

DODB-6266700-D
GSP CAN 3 - 19 - 69 (date?)

Then I found a tag stapled to the bottom of the carpet. It said:

COLLINS &
MADE IN CA

DODB-6213046-REAR

Some things I have noticed so far about the car, the rear frame rails are not nearly as big as the ones on my other Mav's. The front valance is made a little diffrent. The package tray has an extra half inch of plastic riveted to the top, clearly factory done. Looks like they decided it wasn't tall enough or something and riveted another piece on. The shock tower braces are slightly diffrent. The front drums are way small. The metal part that runs from the floor up to the steering colum that the brake pedal mounts to is smaller and shapped diffrent then my other Mav's. The steering wheel did originally have a horn ring, the steering colum is no where near the same as the other Mav's. The floor pans are diffrent, almost flat from front to back except where the bench bolts down.. Just tons and tons of little diffrences that you can tell Ford had last minute thoughts about things as the car started production. It's a very intresting car, thats for sure. As soon as I get another chance, I will have many pictures of it up on my site with all the little diffrences.

The dome light must have been diffrent also. The actual lense and stuff are missing but it has a socket that wasn't part of the lense like the later Mavericks were. It takes a bulb about like what would go in the reverse lights in the tail lights.

Anyone know what the factory '69.5 dome lights looked like?

 

Looks like a real nice car! Also looks like it was built in St. Thomas, the door tag's are more like the older Fords on those cars, If you have a Mustang decoder book you might be able to fiqure out the date??