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Photo Credits: Joe Mishler Photography

Evan’s 1968 Ford Mustang Coupe Berea, OH.

My love for Mustangs began when I was about 9 or 10 years old and I went to my first AutoRama with my brother (Jay), it continued into junior high and high school and the whole time my buddy Tommy and I use to go round and round because he was a Camaro guy (he has since done the smart thing and bought a 65 Mustang), then into my 20’s I finally got my first Mustang, a 1967 Mustang Coupe and rebuilt it over a 3 year period, then I sold the 67 and bought a 1965 Coupe and it took almost 3 years to rebuild, then I sold her, then at 28 years old I bought a 2003 Mustang and did a ton of Mods to her, owned her for 12 years and sold her to buy my current car, my 1968 Coupe.

I realized that I had a great starting platform for a great rebuild and within the last 3 years that I owned my 1968 coupe I have done tons of work for a full restore. We started off with both quarter panel skins (ones that didn’t have the indented reflectors), new wheel houses, and trunk drop. Then we moved on to replacing the floor, torque boxes, deck lid, tail light panel and rear bumper. The hood was also replaced and we went with no latch and added hood pins. We removed and patched the side marker lights in the front fenders, removed the chrome rocker panel molding, and painted her Dark Highland Green Metallic. We did the hood and tail light panel in a Black Matte finish. The entire interior

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was completely remodeled (it was once lime gold) and is now black with upgraded AutoMeter gauges,. We then tied the frame together with subframe connectors and rear traction bars, swapped the grill and added a Black Bullit grill, and set the car on offset 17” US Mag Ramblers wrapped in Nitto tires.

The front and rear have been lowered, the front has the Shelby drop with Viking mono tube coil overs and SSBC power disc brake conversion kit, the Rear has 2” lowering springs with ½” wedges on Koni shocks. The Powertrain Mods as of now are a completely rebuilt Ford Performance 302, SVO aluminum heads with Edelbrock air gap intake and Carb, MSD ignition system, Carter electric fuel system, Aluminum radiator and electric fan, Powermaster Starter and Alternator with billit power steering and alternator brackets, Douglas headers with Pypes stainless steel exhaust, backed with Ford AOD trans and Hughes 2500 stall converter and an 8” posi traction rear end with 3:55 gears.

I would like to give a huge shout out and big thank you to my friend Ken Limpert for help on the body and the amazing paint job a special thanks to my buddy Jack at Summit racing for putting up with me bothering him, my friends at the MMO ( Muscle Mustang Ohio), my brother-in law and my father-in law for the help they gave me, a huge thank you to my 11 year old son Quinn for his evenings in the cold garage in the winter helping me and learning all about cars (and probably learning a few bad words).

Photo Credits: Joe Mishler Photography

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