My mustang is possesed, wanna buy it?

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So the 95 is reallly starting to get on my nerves. I swear I think the car has a soul of its own. My car doesnt run exactly great and last night i accidentally left the windows down. It rained a little, but it wasnt bad. Dried my doors off and the edge of the leather (barely blew in) and headed to school. Came ot the biggest intersection in town adn the thing dies. And I mean DEAD. Won't crank over, wont do anything. And its raining. So I get out and I start ot push it out of the way, holding up traffic, and then i hear it, and realize the battery's loose. Pop opne the hood, the battery hold down is missing and the battery slid foward and the cable came undone. Put it on, jumped in and took off to get out of the way. Turned around and headed back towards the intersection because I was pointed the wrong way and it died again, this time do to its crap idle and whatnot. Got it fired back up, and went on adn my god blessed gas pedal BROKE! So now I'm driving down the road, almost to school, jsut a little piece of metal as a pedal and revving it to keep it alive. Got it in this afternoon, and was driving it to a friends house to wait out a huge storm that rolled in and when I was turning on to her road, it made some god awful noise. Brakes? Steering? No idea. Something not good. And my exhaust has a leak from goign over my bridge everyday. And the thing occasionally has a horrible sputtering problem. Did it a couple days ago, sputtering when I start it up, have to really stay in the gas to keep it from dieing. I hate this car. I don't have the money to get ti running right and I've got WAY too much in it and I'll never see it again. I've got around $8000 in it, not including regular maintence (Royal Purple every 3000 miles, and lately its been sooner due to my non functioning speedometer) and the tons and tons I've spent trying to keep its peeling paint clean. I'd really be pressing my luck to get $4000 for it right now. I'm tired of it. Absolutely tired of it. I have no extra money to spend on it. I'm about to graduate, prom's tomorrow night, and I've got a senior trip I'm commited to and I need money for it. I really question whether or not this car can take me to college this fall, and to be honest, I'm gonna be terrified on the way up there and back. Because its not going to last. I need something else, but I can't afford to throw all that money I have in it away and I can't afford another car. UGH :BangHead: :BangHead: :BangHead:


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Ouch, sounds like a day from hell! My car runs like a top*knock on wood* only thing is mine is sucking a crap load of gas this tank for some reason, and I havent even been getting on it at all. You have 2 stangs, keep the one you like most. You can make anything good, My car is getting everything done now so it can last another 10+ years :).
 

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Well i would say you park it for a week or so and take a break from it and get all the school stuff like Prom and such done. Drive around your 67 and get back to it in a week when you have had a break. Then you can diagnose it properly. The crap idle is probably from the batt cable coming unplugged and it wanting to learn the idle back.
 
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My 67 needs a radiator and overflow tank and I'm still broke. I have no money to fix either. Ugh.
 

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Well the 67 would be the cheapest to fix and quickest to fix right now. I know it sucks but ask your Rents if they would just get you one more grad gift and buy a rad and overflow tank. Sell some stuff you have laying around to put on the car.
 
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Well see, I've only had the car for a little over a week, and they're still totalled out from buying it. I can't ask them to fix it too, when they're helping a lot with all this senior crap. It'll probably be the first to fix, mainly because I'd rather the 95 go bad and have the 67 to drive, then try and fix this one for ungodly amounts and have no ride for awhile. I've got some stuff I need to sell... but around here, its hard to sell anything, and I'm nto sure if I really want to ship this sort of stuff (Fender guitar, big amp, old seats, etc etc). Iunno what I'm goign to do.
 

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Throw some stuff on CL and try to get some bites. If you try and nothing happened you can't say you didn't try. or you can just but out the old volt meter and cleaner and try cleaning everything up on the 95 to see if you can get it running right.
 

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I agree with letting it sit. I say keep it around until you have the money to get it fixed right. Fix the 67 so you have a car to drive. Definitely not worth selling with all the money you have in it, I can attest for that. GL with it.
 
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I'll have to check into that radiator, thanks.

Proms tonight, sky is clearing and I've been driving my Mustang all mornign without hitch. Still taking mom's SS tonight though haha. Maybe it'll get better. I used a different gas station this time, seems like its been pretty bad since I got gas so I'm thinking that MAYBE I got a bad batch of gas. I don't know. Its been running great since I put some in it this morning, so I'm thinking maybe that was it?

Well all in total, looks like I need to buy a battery hold down, a new Bullit gas pedal, a radiator for the 67, and an overflow tank too. Oh well, better than a new car right? I'm thinking about maybe going ahead and getting an aluminum radiator while I'm at it, and quite possibly one of those badass looking Canton overfill tanks so I can be super fly. :icon_rr:
 

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The early Mustangs DID NOT have a radiator overflow tank from the factory. It was just a hose running down the side of the radiator.
 
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I'm not sure if you're entirely correct on that. The one it looks factory and after doing a google images search for 67 mustang engine bays, it looks like some had them and some didnt. I looked in this big mustang book of mine, and in the 67, its engine bay had one just like mine as well.
 

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My 1966 coup never had one, and I installed a after market overflow tank on my 1968GT. I needed to have one for drag racing.
 

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