Hey All, It's been a while since I've been on here and I thought I'd let anyone who cares know what's been happening with my Kar.
As some of you may know, I bought it out of Colorado last February and imported it into BC, Canada. Since then, I've done a thorough once over and cleaned up bunch of loose wiring, gave it a good tune-up, polished it up and put some new tires on. I was able to get the Radio, Lighter and back-up lights to work so now everything is functional. I still haven't picked up a Rally-Pak for it, but I'm happy using the Shelby dash mounted tach. It looks pretty nice sitting up there and gets lots of compliments. Also, I bought a few parts from Fred last March when I was in LA and hope to get those things installed this spring.
Having last been painted in prior to 1981, according to the receipts I have, it needs a paint job, but it cleaned up pretty well. I've had it out to the Peach City Beach Cruise in Penticton, BC, an All-Ford show n' shine up in Kelowna and another show called Kars Under the K in Keremeos, BC, which was pretty cool. There is a constant crowd around the Kar at every show, and it turns heads young and old on the street... Very Cool!
I've driven it quite a bit as well and managed to get a speeding ticket as well...
On that note, (and hopefully I don't get shunned for this), I also took it to the track once where it consistently ran mid 9's in the eigth mile. Pretty quick for a 44 year old car on street radials... I'm not sure what that works out to in the 1/4, but probably high 14's. I picked some drag radials, so i'll try it out again next summer and see if I can get it to launch any better. My buddy has a 9" third member with a detroit locker and 4:11 gears that he wants me to put in, but I refuse... Since there was no factory traction aid in 65, I am inclined to keep it that way.
Anyway, that's the story so far...<img src=images/icon_smile_cool.gif border=0 align=middle>