Rusty Mustangs are easy to find, but rusty ’68 fastbacks in Highland Green? Not so much. Steve McQueen’s Bullitt car (one of two) sold for 3.74 million dollars in 2020, so as long as people know why a Mustang that looks like this one is important, they’ll always have way more value than you might expect. But even on its own, without the Hollywood backstory, the ’68 fastback is arguably one of the best-looking Mustangs to roll off the line at the Rouge plant (or San Jose, or Metuchen, etc.). Although this ’68 for sale here on eBay in Georgia is going to need a ton of work, at least there’s a chance you’d financially break even, and if not, you’ll look pretty cool driving around in your money pit.
The seller does not mince words, saying that the “underside and bodywork need a lot of work,” and appropriate pictures are included. While all the sheetmetal to do the car right are available, a rusty car is still a big project to tackle. As far as rusty Mustangs are concerned, I’d say this is about a three on a scale of five. Some parts are cleaner than you’d expect, but almost every piece is ventilated somewhere. Clearly, it’s going to need torque boxes, but the subframe and rocker surrounding the one pictured here aren’t that bad. How one would approach this restoration would depend on how much money and skill that person had. Some of the holes can be patched, but a complete restoration would involve the replacement of almost everything, and then, you might start thinking of calling Dynacorn for a reproduction shell.
The engine and transmission aren’t in the car, but they will come with it. It’s a C-Code automatic car, which denotes the base 289 two barrel with a C4. In its final year of production, the 289 cranked out 195 horsepower, so in stock form, you won’t be peeling out like Frank Bullitt did with his souped up 390.
The interior is “mostly complete,” with all seats and glass present and accounted for, but like everything else, it will need refurbishment. This is not the kind of car that most people would buy to simply get back on the road; it’s a little too far gone for that, so you might as well do it right.
Its $25,000 asking price will most likely preclude tire kickers from even considering it anyway. If you are a man or woman of means, however, and you think that a Highland Green ’68 fastback is the apogee of Mustanging, then this rough but beautiful example might be the one you’ve been searching for.
Ummm….hell no.
A 1968 RUSTANG. And it has it bad. Might be cool when done. But you need deep pockets. This is a $2500. 00 car.
Wow!
The gall to ask for 20k for a paint colour and 5k for a rustbucket…dood is Bullitt Blind.
Well its a rustang..,
Needs torque boxes, pans, inner fenders, dash pad, interior…inner rockers ,inner frames etc
Then engine, wiring, shock towers etc.
Good luck 🍀
I restored a 1967 vert in my younger days… let’s just say mega work and hours to restore .
I am past that much work these days…
It’s yet another overpriced rust bucket. At least it has one thing going for it. It’s not a MoPar rust bucket.
We all know what MOPAR stands for Mostly Old Parts And Rust. Now days it’s Mercedes Old Parts And Rust
Soooooo, about that photo of the torque box…… The frame rail is shot. It should be visible where the torque box has rusted out on the right side, but all we see is dark, empty space.
NopeNopeNopeNopeNope.
I think they are late to the party, in 2020-2022 it would have been sold already, now the market is cooling off and would probably only bring that price if it was running and driving but this one is Flintstones powered
Huh…..no bids? Shocking!
Too many zeros in the price this is a parts car. I like the see thru floor and quarter panels so that you can see how much rust there really is!
A rust bucket (the rust is way worse than on first glance) from a junk yard trying to catch in on the “craze” way too late. At half the selling price, it would still take an investment of somewhere near
$35,000.00 to get this back to VG condition. It wasn’t anything special in the first place, except for the body style – if you like this year. The fact that it has been for sale since last December with no bids at all says a lot.
Ford never called them a fastback I don’t believe,
I always hated unibody cars, cheap throw away junk especially Fords. I remember back in the day looking at new ones that were already surface rusted underneath, they were at the dealership in the showroom.
This dealer never lists a Stang that’s not rusty……
The suggestion to call Dynacorn for a replacement body is spot-on! $17.5k F.O.B. from the Dynacorn plant in Camarillo, CA. You would probably spend more than that in parts and labor to repair this rust bucket! The biggest problem is how do you get a title for it once you re-assemble the car onto the new body? Some states will allow you to transfer the VIN from the donor body to the new body, others won’t. Contact your state’s DMV/RMV for the laws in your state.
Once you change the body, where do you stop? If the engine, transmission or rear end are toast, do you rebuild them or call Ford to get a crate motor and/or transmission for it? Do you keep the stock front subframe, put an aftermarket subframe in it, or go full restomod with an aftermarket perimeter frame, with either a four-link rear end or a fully independent rear suspension? Whatever you decide to do, you’ve almost created your own personal kit car, and very little of the original car will remain when you’re done!
No matter what you decide to do, this one has money pit written all over it! The $25k asking price is a pipe dream, $2500 is more like it! Thanks, but No Thanks!