Hey everyone,
Just wanted to post in introductory thread. I just bought my dads 70 mach 1 from him after some cinvincing since it was sitting in the garage not driven for the last 10 years. He bought it in 82 for $600. I grew up with the car, and seen it on and off the road many times. Now at 29 I finally talked him into selling it to me for 3k. It will probably end up being a project we both work on as I fund the parts. It's in what I think is decent condition especially for the price but i needs a bit of work. This might be blasphemy but I owned a 94 corvette from 2001 until last year. At the end of the run it had a 383 stroker, lowered, white on black. But I got rid of it last summer. Got the itch again and bought the muscle car I grew up with.
The last couple weeks we went ahead and put in new calipers, brake booster, master cylinder and line hoses trying to track down locked caliper, and then a soft pedal. Embarrassingly the calipers were on the wrong side.
The car runs decent, but to get it back on the road the rims/tires have to go, per the pics they are pretty old school not balanced and in my opinion look rediculous. I will probably be jumping to the wheel tire section next for some suggestions input. The over all plans for the car are to get it running reliably, get body work done and painted black, as for rims and I know this can be a bit touchy but I will be going 18's, not that I don't like the classic look of 15's but I love the looks of bigger rims on these cars. Most of the fixes are cosmetic at this point.
Look forward to being a member and learning what I can about these cars and wrenching on it in my spare time.
Just wanted to post in introductory thread. I just bought my dads 70 mach 1 from him after some cinvincing since it was sitting in the garage not driven for the last 10 years. He bought it in 82 for $600. I grew up with the car, and seen it on and off the road many times. Now at 29 I finally talked him into selling it to me for 3k. It will probably end up being a project we both work on as I fund the parts. It's in what I think is decent condition especially for the price but i needs a bit of work. This might be blasphemy but I owned a 94 corvette from 2001 until last year. At the end of the run it had a 383 stroker, lowered, white on black. But I got rid of it last summer. Got the itch again and bought the muscle car I grew up with.
The last couple weeks we went ahead and put in new calipers, brake booster, master cylinder and line hoses trying to track down locked caliper, and then a soft pedal. Embarrassingly the calipers were on the wrong side.
The car runs decent, but to get it back on the road the rims/tires have to go, per the pics they are pretty old school not balanced and in my opinion look rediculous. I will probably be jumping to the wheel tire section next for some suggestions input. The over all plans for the car are to get it running reliably, get body work done and painted black, as for rims and I know this can be a bit touchy but I will be going 18's, not that I don't like the classic look of 15's but I love the looks of bigger rims on these cars. Most of the fixes are cosmetic at this point.
Look forward to being a member and learning what I can about these cars and wrenching on it in my spare time.
