I'll do a little bit of background to start. Boring stuff so feel free to skip this part. I bought the Bullitt new back in 2001, it was my daily at the time, traded in a 1990 GT on it also bought new back in the day. I am 68, retired, spent my career as a heavy duty tech mostly trucks and buses.
Somewhere back in 2006 I crashed the Bullit, not seriously but enough there is an accident on the cars record so any value as an original was out the window so I started considering moding it. we had just bought a house, and were struggling a little so the budget for the car was pretty low and I was still using it as a daily so the mods had to wait but I did start slowly aquiring some parts and I squirreled them away for "one day".
Fast forward to 2017, we had paid off the house and had a few bucks in the bank at this point so we decided to build a house, bought a piece of property, got together with a builder and laid out the plans for the house. and a shop for me to actually tear into the car. Well, things took another turn, a couple of days before we were due to sign for the house build, I was diagnosed with cancer. Something called Multiple Myeloma, not curable but controlable according to the Dr. We cancelled the house build and were in limbo for quite awhile with me on Chemo, I felt like crap most of the time so didn't get much done on virtually anything, 2018 we decided we should look for a new house so if anything happened to me, the wife wouldn't have the maintenance of an older place. we found a nice place about 250 miles away so we packed up and moved. New house is just your basic suburban place with a 2 car garage, ball park 400 sq ft, enough but it's tight to work on the car. By the time we got settled, another couple of years rolled by and then car was just sitting. The pandemic rolls around and now being immuno compromised due to the cancer, I basiclly didn't want to be out and about much so I spent a lot of time on the internet looking at and ordering parts. One day in 2022 I got the the urge to actually start doing something with the car. so I tore into it, and that where we are going to start with this. Here’s a pic of what I started with. a pretty much bone stock Bullitt.
Somewhere back in 2006 I crashed the Bullit, not seriously but enough there is an accident on the cars record so any value as an original was out the window so I started considering moding it. we had just bought a house, and were struggling a little so the budget for the car was pretty low and I was still using it as a daily so the mods had to wait but I did start slowly aquiring some parts and I squirreled them away for "one day".
Fast forward to 2017, we had paid off the house and had a few bucks in the bank at this point so we decided to build a house, bought a piece of property, got together with a builder and laid out the plans for the house. and a shop for me to actually tear into the car. Well, things took another turn, a couple of days before we were due to sign for the house build, I was diagnosed with cancer. Something called Multiple Myeloma, not curable but controlable according to the Dr. We cancelled the house build and were in limbo for quite awhile with me on Chemo, I felt like crap most of the time so didn't get much done on virtually anything, 2018 we decided we should look for a new house so if anything happened to me, the wife wouldn't have the maintenance of an older place. we found a nice place about 250 miles away so we packed up and moved. New house is just your basic suburban place with a 2 car garage, ball park 400 sq ft, enough but it's tight to work on the car. By the time we got settled, another couple of years rolled by and then car was just sitting. The pandemic rolls around and now being immuno compromised due to the cancer, I basiclly didn't want to be out and about much so I spent a lot of time on the internet looking at and ordering parts. One day in 2022 I got the the urge to actually start doing something with the car. so I tore into it, and that where we are going to start with this. Here’s a pic of what I started with. a pretty much bone stock Bullitt.
