Thread: 1974 Mustang II Build

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We haven’t been getting much done on the 74 lately, most of the time Cade is over here we’ve been working on things we need to get done on the new house.

Yesterday we did make time to go out to the local wrecking yard I’ve been going to for years. The owner passed away several years ago and his wife passed a couple years back. The kids have elected to close the yard and crush most of the stuff.

There are only 3 Mustang IIs left (2 74s and a 77). I’ve pretty much picked over all three over the years but we decided to go out and look.

Cade and I took a pretty close look at the 77. No motor or transmission but the body is straight and solid and all the glass is intact. It was a V6/4 speed car (I bought the pedals out of it years ago and they are long gone). It’s factory air and has the Gia (1/2 vinyl top) and factory sun roof options and should have the 8" rear end.



77 Sunroof by M Patterson, on Flickr


We’re waiting to hear back on the title situation…… we need to make sure it has either a clean title or salvage title and not a crush permit (in AZ a crush permit does not allow the car to be titled and put back on the road or even sold for parts).

If the title is good and the price is right we’ll probably pick it up as a parts car/future project.


These old junk yards are all just about gone. This is the last one I know of in this area. It was good to take Cade out there before everything is gone to see all the neat old cars and show him how things used to be.


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