Nice car Josh. My brother used to have a 67 Fastback 289, Manitoba car - no
salt. Worthwhile project :-)
Jim Knox, 91 Dak 318 LA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Josh Battles" <jbattles@bankfinancial.com>
To: <dakota-truck-moderator@bent.twistedbits.net>
Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2004 10:01 AM
Subject: DML: Re: OT/ Josh's 'Stang
>
> "Michael Maskalans" <dml@tepidcola.com> wrote in message
> >
> > On Jan 14, 2004, at 16:13, Josh Battles wrote:
> >
> > > Looks like I'll have to get crackin and finish (start) the stang
> > > before any
> > > wedding bells are in my future.
> >
> > and there I thought the Dakota had replaced the yeller beast (is is the
> > right picture I'm thinking of - yellow with black racing strips?) since
> > I've never heard you mention anything about it in the present tense....
>
> First off, I'd never own anything in yellow, let alone with stripes on
it...
> Apparently my mustang history has piqued your curiosity. Usually my
project
> doesn't come up in conversation, but I thought it fitting since we were
> talking about women changing when they got "the ring."
>
> Here goes:
> <deep breath>
> I traded (sold) my BLACK 91 mustang GT before I bought the Dak because I
had
> blown up my motor at the strip the day before finals at school (college -
> may 2000) couldn't afford the downtime because of finals. So, I sold it
to
> a friend of mine that had always been itching to buy the car from me and
> bought the truck that same day. He put a new motor in it and proceeded to
> put the car into a ditch, come out the other side and slam the backside of
a
> guardrail to total the vehicle. (he was a tard, but i needed the cash)
>
> Shortly after I acquired the truck (actually about a year later) I came
> across the front clip of a 66 mustang poking out of a barn filled with hay
> and stopped to look what was there. Lo and behold, there was a pretty
> trashed 66 fastback mustang with a 289 and a 4 speed... I walked over to
> the front door and asked the guy about it. he said the car had belonged
to
> his brother who had died 15 years earlier and it had been partially
restored
> when he got it. he parked it there and had forgotten about it. I asked
if
> he wanted to sell. He told me that he'd give me the car and everything
that
> went with if for the bargain price of $350, so I wrote him a check on the
> spot and called a friend who has a flatbed trailer and a F350 diesel
dually
> and we towed it to my house. It sat in my driveway for the rest of the
> summer and part of the winter until my parents wouldn't let me keep it at
> home anymore. I did manage to weld in all new floorboards and fix most of
> the body rust in that time. It's primered flat black to seal all the body
> work and now resides in my great-aunt's barn until I buy a house with a
> garage. Then, It and all it's pieces will be loaded up and taken to my
new
> pad.
>
> Make more sense now?
>
> --
> - Josh
> Lowered 2000 Dakota CC 3.9L
> www.geocities.com/lenny187/dakota.html
> www.omg-stfu.com
>
>
>
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