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Bangkok, Photography, Racing Bangkok Mustang Restoration
Wednesday, March 7, 2012 at 4:24PM 
One of the really cool things you can do in Bangkok is to have an old car restored -- cheaply. If you happen to have an "overseas contract" with a corporation or embassy you may also have the benefit of shipping your car over to Thailand, and shipping it back at the end of the contract.
If the car you ship to Thailand happens to be a rusty old classic 1965 Mustang convertible, and the car you ship back is the same car but fully restored, so much the better.
I really like my friend's Mustang restoration. He used the straight six cylinder engine and four-speed manual transmission, but with a racing cylinder head and Paxton supercharger. Very nice.
A big valve, large port, aluminum racing head with a matching camshaft for the supercharger. The supercharger and 4-bbl fuel injector throttle body were removed for shipping -- a one-barrel carburetor was rigged to get the Mustang in and out of it's container. What you can't see are the hand-fabricated stainless steel headers and duel exhausts. Nice work.
The interior is all new as well. Various patch panels were butt-welded in here and there. Very good work.
New chrome bumpers and trim items, along with a new vinyl convertible top finish the rebuild.
Reader Comments (3)
hi do u know where i can find old classic cars in bkk? thanks so much
Larry, Sorry, but my friend imported all of his restoration parts from The States.
great pics in your journal.
about this mustang restoration, do you know where the body paint was done, I'm looking for a good garage for car restoration in Bangkok
Thanks
Alex