YOU’VE BEEN WARNED. Now you are going to have to figure out how to explain why there will be Shelby Mustang GT500 in your driveway to your significant other.
Ok car and Mustang fans you are going to like this:
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Agent 47 Harbinger Mustang for racing or street!!!
Isn’t that wicked looking?
They tried for the look of the 69 TransAm Mustang.
Shelby 1969 TransAm Mustang
The Harbinger is built for track or high performance street duty. Here are some specs and more pics. (Check out the racing video too.)
– Limited production of 250 serialized chassis
– Harbingers can be built using a brand new Dynacorn repro body or an existing 69 or 70 Mustang shell. {but it would have to be the fastback or sports back – not my ’70 Coupe 🙁 }
Race spec, low visual obstruction design, 12 point, chassis stiffening roll-cage of DOM steel.
Race proven SLA (double A-arm) Front suspension.
Ultra stable, Bill Osborne designed, V-link rear suspension.
Speedway Engineering 9” full floating rear axle.
Penske adjustable racing shocks with optional weight jacks at all four corners.
Ducted, low drag and lift hood, engineered and crafted by Agent 47.
Come ON!!! Tell me that’s not awesome!!!
Agent 47 designed vintage Recaro style racing seats.
Agent 47 designed, lightweight, Forgeline racing wheels.
Those are nice!!!
Brakes and master cylinders by AP racing.
Check out this set up.
16 lightweight components manufactured using the latest Rapid prototyping technology.
NVH controlled interior with strategic, lightweight, sound dampening materials.
A work of art. Very limited body roll with this set up. Much improved over the original ’69 TransAm
I’m not advertising for these guys, I just really like what they’ve done. There are parts for Fox bodied and other Mustangs as well.
Here a long racing video (cameras are set up for you can see how the body reacts to cornering).
The 2015 Mustang reveal is getting closer and there’s been a lot of hype from the Mustang community about the new model! J. Mays, Ford’s Creative Chief Officer, previously said the new gen model will be less retro and way more modern as to move the Mustang name forward. That has people creating their own renderings of what they think it will look like.
What we do know about the 2015 Mustang so far? Well, it will be smaller, lighter, feature independent rear suspension, and will be offered globally. An Ecoboost has been everything but confirmed.
Check out the Mustang concept that Popular Hot Rodding magazine drew up! These renderings are what they believe the new Mustang model will look like. In my opinion, the red drawing looks more like a squished Bugatti than a Ford Mustang, and definitely very futuristic. Also, the silver concept has more of a Mustang feel with the front and rear end and I can dig it. Definitely cool drawings and concepts, but is this where the new Mustang could be headed?
So I’ve gotten the new electrical connection installed on the switch. I now need to cut off the old switch and strip the wires.
Ya know it’s hard to take a video while you a squeezed under a car on jack-stands!!!
In this video you can see the striped wires.
Installing the bracket was easy enough except that it wasn’t formed properly and had to be bent. Keep in mind this is not ‘harden’ steel and too much bending will weaken it and when the reverse lever comes back will just push the bracket backward and not allow the button to be depressed enough to make contact and complete the circuit and turn the backup lights on.
Here it is all installed.
Here it is with the car in the reverse position. You can see the button depressed.
Here is a video shot.
And the intended results:
Now I’d love to tell you that all was well, however remember the bolt and the Sharpie mark I made on it so that I could gauge how far to screw it back in?
Well I was still pretty happy with the progress and I took the car off the jack-stand and started her up and backed out of the garage. That went well, but there didn’t seem to be a first gear once I decided to pull the car forward, nor second gear. She isn’t going to move.
So I’ve got the car out of the garage and right at the edge of the drive on the driver’s side. I have to get under the car and tighten that bold a few more turns. I end up laying partially on the drive way, partially on the rocks (we don’t have grass in your yards here..we have small, gather in you pants when you are laying on them, sharp rocks) and partially on one of your shrubs. Ok, lets not forget the glowing hot Hooker header pipes..yeah…just back out of the garage…no worries the hair on my arm will grow back. Any way, I tighten it just enough to get the car to go into second gear and pull it back into garage.
It had to go back up on the jack-stands for more adjustments, and I had to the switch off once to make adjustments to the bracket. But success was achieved!!!!!
A quick recap, I had a 1967 Ford Mustang Shelby manual 4 speed transmission rebuilt and installed it in my 1970 coupe. This included a Hurst Competition Plus Shift Kit. Of course the configuration isn’t even close to the original 3 speed and the old bracket for the reverse light switch won’t go back on.
I didn’t really think of this as the time of the installation so I just zip-tied the wiring and old switch up until I picked up the conversion part for the Hurst kit. This included a reverse light switch and a properly formed bracket. Cost was about $29.00 at the same local hot rod shop I bought the shift kit from – they are car guys not salesmen, which is why they didn’t mention the light switch bracket.
Don’t asks me why I felt the need to take video of the kit still in the package but here it is:
As you can see in the video below. The switch had two screws as posts for the wiring, new switch..old school technology. Basically you’d wrap the end of a wire around the screw and tighten, not a great connection for hanging under a car, nor for the amount of vibration the 302 dishes out. Used the screws and the small ‘lock” washer to hold the electrical connectors in place. That will last.
As the Washington D.C. auto show took place, President Obama decided to make a visit. Truly impressed with the American muscle & sports cars. Though he checked out many new models and the likes of the controversial most iconic American sports car, Chevy Corvette(photo above), it seemed like the new Ford MustangShelby GT500 Super Snake; or simply Shelby GT500; is what really grabbed his attention by stating, “This is sick”.
Replaces that is, boot as in shifting boot. (Were you thinking…since I just got back from the Barrett Jackson Auction.. I was considering getting rid of the Stang ? Nope..but I tell you there were a couple of cars I’d even swap for…that’s for sure!!)
When the 4 speed trans got installed we used the old rubber boot and it did tear. So I replaced it with a nice leather replacement from Scott Drake.
The chrome plate (well not really chrome) was originally held in place by the last fold of rubber on the boot. This isn’t possible with the leather replacement so I had to improvise.
So the boot and trim are in stalled, but of course you leave those ugly bolts sticking out. I originally thought that I would get some chrome bolts to replace, but they aren’t inexpensive as I found out when I replace my 1984 Corvette’s valve cover bolts with chrome…hey..they keep the chrome locked up at the local Ace Hardware!!! <<>> So since I still have to replace the carpeting (I could change my mind later about the bolts) I opted for some plastic chrome-like covers – they are actually cover for license plate screws. Here are a couple of pics:
One cap on and one off.
Both caps on, held in place with a touch of easily removed household rubber silicon glue
Ford released three pictures of the 2013 California Edition Mustang, which has traditionally been an appearance only package. They have not released an exact part list yet but the pictures speak wonders for what you will get, including the popular glass roof.
You can check out more 2013 Mustang pictures over in our photo gallery.
