For Fan Car Friday this week we bring you our Bill and his mostly done 69 Ford Mustang.  Granted this one is not ready to be driven or shown but it represents the fundamentals of FantomWorks.  The human connection that these cars have for us.  Fan Car Friday is a segment where we want to share with the world the automobiles that our fans have. We have absolutely no affiliation/relationship with the cars, the build or the owners. This post was made with written consent from the owner.

“My grandfather bought this 1969 candy apple red Mustang new. It was his pride and joy, and he kept his sporty ride immaculate.
He was 51 when he brought it home. I was 8 then, but the car caught my eye. And every time we would go to Ohio to visit, I couldn’t wait to see his Mustang. It was eye candy!
But as time went by we made the trip to Cincinnati less and less to not at all. Yet, I would occasionally find myself reminiscing about the car over the decades that would come and go.
I knew that when my grandfather died he left the car to his daughter (my Aunt Sue), and she drove the car until parking it in her garage in the late 80’s where it sat.
I approached her about selling me the car a couple years ago, but she said she was leaving the car to her son.
So I was surprised to get a call from her last year saying she would sell me the car. Needless to say I was Cincinnati bound in short order.
I hadn’t seen the car in ages, so I couldn’t wait to get in her garage to look at it. And there it was, dull and tired, yet complete and waiting for me to bring it home where I would begin a full restoration.
The body will be finished this spring (2019) with a fresh coat of bright candy apple red paint before I begin the reassembly.
It is a numbers matching 351w, automatic car with factory a/c. I hope to finish the car before it’s 50 year anniversary from the day my grandfather bought it.
Can’t wait to take it for a cruise!

That is my Grandfather “Sam Fields” in the hat beside his car back in the day, and then pictures of how I found it in my aunt’s garage.”

The first-generation Ford Mustang was manufactured by Ford from March 1964 until 1973. The introduction of the Mustang created a new class of automobile known as the pony car. The Mustang’s styling, with its long hood and short deck, proved wildly popular and inspired a host of competition.

It was initially introduced on April 17, 1964, as a hardtop and convertible with the fastback version put on sale in August 1964. At the time of its introduction, the Mustang, sharing its underpinnings with the Falcon, was slotted into a compact car segment.

With each revision, the Mustang saw an increase in overall dimensions and in engine power. The 1971 model saw a drastic redesign to its predecessors. After an initial surge, sales were steadily declining, as Ford began working on a new generation Mustang. With the onset of the 1973 oil crisis, Ford was prepared, having already designed the smaller Mustang II for the 1974 model year. This new car had no common components with preceding models.

The 1969 model year restyle “added more heft to the body” with body length extended by 3.8 inches (97 mm) (the wheelbase remaining at 108 inches), width increased by almost half an inch, and the Mustang’s “weight went up markedly too.” 1969 was the first model to use quad headlamps placed both inside and outside the grille opening. The corralled grille pony was replaced with the pony and tribars logo, set off-center to the driver’s side. The car was longer than previous models and sported convex rather than concave side panels. The fastback body version was named SportsRoof in Ford’s literature.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Mustang_(first_generation)

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