In 1968, the Mustang would continue to dominate the pony car scene that Ford had created four years earlier. Though competition was plentiful then, Mustang would still outsell all the others. The seller’s car looks like your basic Mustang with a 200 cubic inch V8 and a manual transmission. It’s an auto that we’re told it’s in the final stages of restoration, yet the seller posts it for sale before it’s finished. So, we must imagine what the completed product will look like. Located in Indian Trail, North Carolina, this Ford is available here on eBay where the bidding has reached $2,370 without reaching the reserve and there’s a Buy It Now price of $15,100.
Out of 317,000 Mustangs built in 1968, the hardtop accounted for 250,000 copies, leaving the rest to fastbacks and convertibles. The car had received a cosmetic refresh in 1967, so the ’68 models would be little changed. The seller says he found this car in a garage where it had been sitting for nine years. He bought it to restore but admits he may have bitten off more than he could chew, although the project sounds like it’s well on its way to completion after a year has passed.
As we can best determine, most of the work on this car may have focused on the interior. A chain of photos shows that portions are in a state of change, beginning with new floorboards and finishing with new seats, carpeting, door panels, dash, and headliner installed. The glass front and rear pieces were removed and those areas resealed. The seller says too much work is here to list, but I’d have to disagree. There is never too much to list to help buyers understand what they’re getting into.
We don’t know if the Mustang has yet to be painted and what the status is regarding the engine and transmission, though the seller refers to this as an “entire rebuild.” We’re told the car will be completed in two weeks, once the undercarriage has been undercoated. If this car is that close to being finished, why post it now when you can’t see the entire package? If you were to click the Buy It Now button today, would you be receiving a finished project or what you see now?
A “200 cubic inch” engine is a 6 cylinder.
The V8 in 1968 was the Windsor 302 with 230 bhp and 300 lb./ft.
You could still get a 289 2 barrel in a Mustang and Falcon that year.
I love my 1986 Ford Escort Pony. White hatch back, 4 speed and no radio.
Congrats on your love affair with your Escort. Now can you stop posting the same, inane comment on pretty much every car on Barnfinds? Maybe something relevant to the car being featured?
Time out! Why step on someone’s pride and joy?
Leave you damn troll, I’ve had enought too.
So the owner has had the car for one year and is mainly used on weekend drives. The next paragraph states that he has had this car for one year and hasn’t driven it, so which one is it? Either way I find it strange that he worked on the car for one year, made good progress, and doesn’t want to enjoy it for a little while? There is something missing from this ad.
very unfinished car – deceiving best pictures for sure….
My interest in this posting as a car guy and Mustang fan was lost on me as a U.S. citizen when the first photo showed a separatist racist hate flag draped across the driver’s seat. This was especially ironic, or moreso ignorant, given that 1968 (the year of this Mustang) was one of the most tumultuous and tragic years in our nation’s history given the events of that year capped by the tragic assassinations of great men like Martin Luther King Jr. and Bobby Kennedy who were both trying to make our nation and our world a better place rather than a hateful place. By all means I know to some they say that flag on that seat is a “symbol of heritage” but they fail to recognize what that heritage meant to our great country (division and attempted dissolution of the United States during the Civil War) and to our country’s citizens (support of segregation and violence towards those who strove for equity during the Civil Rights Movement). Sad that 160 years or even 60 years later there are citizens who still do not know the absolutely horrible atrocities commited while waving that flag occurred within our great nation’s history. Thankfully here in 2021 we are still the United States of America and we still believe that universal and fundamental truth that all people are created equal. God Bless America and God Bless us all!
Get Over Yourself.
Let me play the world’s smallest violin for you butthurt moron. Why don’t you wake up and see what they have done to this country
That flag you so complain about is part of American History. Good, bad or indifferent. It happened and is now over but doesn’t mean the history never happened ! If you erase history it will repeat itself ! You should learn from it.
On a car note, V-8 , 200 Cid? The car looks pretty clean over all. Obviously the guy who wrote this doesn’t know anything about cars. If he does then he should correct the owner and get the facts straight
Only three rules on barn finds and at least two are broken in every post.
Let’s get back to cars please.
I agree! Leave non barn find comments outside.
I agree, lets get back to cars and stay there. If I want to be “Woke Scolded” I’ll tune in to CNN.
If this is worth $15K my 1964 1/2 Convertible with the 260 and rusty frame rails must be worth at least $30K..
Looks like he spot welded the new rear floor pan overlapping of the old one instead of welding flush using clecos. That along with mistaking an inline 6 for a V8 and whatever rear end that is for a 9 inch make me a little disappointed that this guy worked on this car at all unless he was keeping it for himself and honing his skills over the years. Would be better for the next guy if he just flipped as is and made a little money.
Ya’ll are expecting way to much from somebody in Indian Trail NC.I used to live there and you can’t get there from here. This Stang is in somebodies shop getting something done. He is getting rode hard by his wife about selling the car. This is his way of shutting her up. See See I got an add up to sell it. He is just stalling so he can justify spending more money getting it out of the shop it is currently at.