Project 67 Mustang

Gary, I can't say that I've ever seen another 1st gen stang without a fuel sight glass besides yours- including several that have what appear to be factory electronic fuel gauges. We'll need to do through some pictures to see if HM's were handled any differently, as I haven't had a chance to closely inspect as many of tees as I would like. Reid doesn't have any pre-71 stang HM's as far as I know. We should dig up Vondys thread and ask JohnB what his boats have/had. I believe I see a sight glass on this one:

http://correctcraftfan.com/diaries/details.asp?ID=200&sort=&pagenum=7

Cc production techniques must have been a little sloppy back then. There are enough engine specific differences to think that they'd probably need to know what a hull was eventually destined to have- things like exhaust outlet size and location (on the engine end) varied between the HM, chryslers and Interceptors. Still, some details are common regardless of the engine, like the dual pickups that Bruce mentioned (all of my 67-71 boats have them regardless of engine). I'm guessing fuel sight glasses probably were handled the same. Not sure why that would have been at all related to engine option anyways, as it would seemingly be an unrelated option?

It also has the through hulls for a Chrysler. The engine choice may have been an option which was chosen later. The 68 Cuda we had, had the same through hulls for a Chrysler and it had an Interceptor in it, so it had that same useless loop tying the 2 inlets that were not needed together.

TRBenj wrote: Gary S wrote: Either someone got drill happy or that boat didn't start out intended for a HM, another case of use what you can get I'm not following you Gary... Care to enlighten us on what you see?

Gary,
I can't see what you are talking about ether?

Either someone got drill happy or that boat didn't start out intended for a HM, another case of use what you can get

This is Mustang M2621. It is probably a 69 or 70. I was told that this is the original upholstery on the front seats. The back seat has been reupholstered. It used to be the Skiing Skeeters tow when it was new. It is in the year range when Tim said they changed over to a wider selection of fabrics. It appears to be pretty much original sans wheel, and the color of the upholstery looks close. I have only seen it on the water a couple of times in the 12-13 years I have been on the chain. It is driven by old people like me, no surprise.

This was still tacked to the back of one of side panels what are the chances this is the original color?

I didn't ask how many wheels they had John

Ken Meloon at the Taveres show was telling me how many halfs they used to go thru,I'm guessing the passenger is using it for a handle,while the driver used the wheel?

john b wrote: Which side of your windshield is plastic, port or starboard? .

Oh boy now your putting me to the test
Uh the plastic was on the port side, the glass was on the starboard side

I hope your going to Tell me you have the one I need ? And your willing to part with it.

Which side of your windshield is plastic, port or starboard? I believe the mounting tab on the windshield could be welded back on.

Yes, scoops are original, since I posted last year about not recognizing those rounded scoops, I've encountered a few 67 and early 68 boats with them.

Not sure what we're looking at in the "how do I fix this" pic?

Motorbox looks good!

Tim looks like these are original

In the end I used the same 3m compounds and pads that we use on the hull. Cleaned up really well.