it's the perfect vibe
well i'm excited we're heading over to corporate and we are going to meet up
with a couple of guys that we're doing a special project with we are going to rest them on a 1969
mustang with another great scottsdale company fender with ron thorne mike lewis let's see what
we are going to create for one of their special anniversaries coming up a very cool project
craig called me up and asked me to bring out the 69 ford mustang because we're partnering with
fender the world's largest guitar manufacturer and a couple of the guys from the fender custom shop
are coming here today now these guys are known for working with some of the world's top musicians
to design some of the most iconic guitars in the world and speaking of oh my god look at
that so this is what we're starting with this is uh jason anchor here so thank you jason
the whole plane right here thinking black fastback all right i i think i was prepared for it not at
all turning the corner seeing it sitting there it's beautiful can't wait to dive in and get
the project started so the goal is to take this car and build it for both of our anniversaries
for our 50th for your 75th and that's awesome we're excited to see we want to they're going
to build a cool guitar that goes along with the car so it's got to be a build where we both
have input so that the two together end up what we want we're building it more as a resto mod
so it'll keep looking the stock part but yeah have performance but tweak it a little bit so
the guitar can be tweaked to go along with the car right excellent so you guys thinking like a
stratocaster or something like that to go with probably a strat a 69 strap oh yeah they're both
pretty sleek iconic iconic 69 mustang 69 strategy absolutely yeah and we'll do the same thing we'll
kind of wrestle mod out the guitar we'll have some high performance components put on there
that may may look the part but have some modern modifications and tweaks to it you know fender
and cars go back all the way to the beginning the offender was a car nut you know so to me
cars and guitars go together especially fender guitars the chrome you know and then this project
1969 1969 mustang 1969 stratocaster that was an incredible year for music you know woodstock
the last beatles concert live so much great music came out you sort of all the whole 60s vibe thing
culminates it you know comes to an apex at the end of that decade 1969 so it's it's me right here as
great as they were the 69 they lacked horsepower we can definitely improve it in that area as well
as the stance i mean right now it's a little the classic the classic scared cat stance you know
little thicker tire coilovers all the way around bring this thing down give it a sleek look
black a little bit more of it out yeah make it look cool slick and sound really really
good as well so what what is going to go under the hood well you know we're thinking you know
roughly like a 347 stroker something that same pretty much block size but a lot more horsepower
you know a lot better internals uh we'll throw an automatic transmission behind it because you want
anybody to be able to drive it as much as we like to drive manual transmissions not everybody can
so if you're going to have a car that we're going to represent both companies you want everybody
to have a chance to be part of it we'll show you underneath the hood right now what we've got it's
it's been played a little bit it's obviously has been sitting a long time but it's got aftermarket
air conditioning compressor on it shelby and we'll put you know we'll put a uh front runner set up so
you'll have a one belt setup a high performance radiator so the car will keep cool all the time
the idea is to get it clean get it sleek fast and make it sound awesome it's that easy i wish it
was only that easy but this one we're going more analog with it right yeah yeah so i think it'll
fit the part yeah i mean it's got a lot of work to be done but it's a good template like craig said
we're not taking a high-valued car you know like super high-end that people get really upset about
we're taking a car we're actually enhancing the value of yeah and making something cool for both
of our anniversaries absolutely i love it there's a few elements that i'd love to tie in with the
guitar namely the rear tail lights this is one feature i've been dying to to do so in other words
the the bridge would be here the neck would be out here and this very much looks like the pickups on
a guitar so the wrong collector goes off the leds so we start with something that is easy
give them three leds to play with possibly as long as they kept this is just gonna keep
this look right look at the very same shape yeah the board will be inside where you won't see it
where the traditional bulbs are in the bucket right just replace that with the circuit that
would work yeah but you'll keep all the exterior will stay the same so i think the coolest is the
fender replacing that i mean some of the emblems and some of that stuff that'll add a lot to it
mounting the guitar getting the amps in it vintage look but customized yeah i love it that throaty
sound when it fires up that's the build that's it and it's going to be auctioned at the end of
the day yes yep well the 69 mustang i mean this is what it's all about so i got a lot of work to
do guys that's the week you guys will be in touch uh i hope you guys like how much we did okay thank
you i couldn't be more excited i am stoked are you guys even numb to it at this point now i doubt it
but that is freaking awesome looking at it just even as it is but when ah can't wait all right cut
so we had our initial meeting with craig and the guys from fender about the 69 mustang project
these guys and myself are going to build this car and make it what we talked about what are you guys
thoughts on the deal looks like it's ready to go right now yeah it's not bad looking car we
just need to kind of tighten it up a little bit give it the stance that we talked about
more aggressive bigger brakes wheels tires motor you know something with some more oomph to it well
these guys are really really excited about the project one 69 mustang is something they really
really wanted to do uh ron from fender this was his first car so he's you're surrounded by a bunch
of mustang guys all right yeah yeah stuff bro i know now they wanted a few logos incorporated in
the car and they're like us they don't want to get crazy and turn it into an ad board so okay
possibly fender across the back rather than the words mustang nice okay maybe a subtle fender f
at the fender at the fender if that works out the front grille where it's argent they want to black
it out okay leave the stainless but black out the argent so you kind of get that more sleek
look to the car and eliminate the mustang logo in the grill itself but really just what we do
on a hot rod make it cool drop it clean it up smooth and then whatever we need to do with the
interior the biggest part of this project is going to be incorporating the 69 stratocaster
mounted in the back fold down that's what they want to show off so we have to make sure we give
that adequate time and that's going to take a bit of a process of us figuring out what's going to
work and what's going to look the best gotcha the sooner you get it to me the faster it'll go all
right i'm all about it tony i'm super stoked about working on this 69 mustang man i'm partnering up
with fender that makes it even better couldn't be a better combination now this is going to rock
well now that you guys got the hard part done i'm going to take it out and power wash it get it all
ready for the lift tomorrow so we can yank all this off of the suspension whatever wiring you
don't want yeah whatever components front you use to get rid of we need all that out of the
way because we need to figure out how we're going to address this engine bay as quickly as possible
yeah we can clean up a lot of this stuff but i think really it's going to be on you to
really wash this thing down good and a lot of things that are under here are going to be
gone so yeah well the floors are nice hopefully we the main grease is right
here but if we can get that off all right this project well underway
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