I am seriously looking for an AL car

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I am late to this particular party, but hello folks. Im so glad I found you.

I am quietly looking for an AL car to surprise the hell out of my wife with..

I dont care how long it takes, but I will attept this and if it takes all year to find a decent project-car, i am sure and dedicated to my new goal.

My wife is a State Procecutor in Alabama and works all day representing the state and county vs. people who run afoul of the law in the county... so she works directly on a dialy basis with AL Troopers/Deputies all day making cases. She sponsors a track day sometimes where troopers and cops get to get on the track and have some fun driving fast, not the usual, dangerous way they usually have to drive fast. She is also a State Cert. Vehicular Homicide investigator, and not being an actual trooper, she drives her Grand Cherokee to the scene to measure skid-marks and all that.. how freakin cool would it be for her to pull up in a (private) SS stang with all the lights (actually needed ) and the whole shootin match?!? yes, oh yes. I would get husband of the year for that reality.

I want a SSM for my wife that we/I also can do track days in, (NOT door-to-door, so don't get your bristles up you all-original-folks) and take to shows, drive on Sundays, yadda yadda, the same exact reasons most of you want/have one.

My wife grew up in Redding, CA area, so if I cannot get a decent AL project car at any reasonable price, then a CHP would be a close second choice. Seeing as my wife and I work in AL, and I'm from here, I prefer a AL car myself, but you can't ALWAYS get what you want, no? :-)


In doing a surface little research here, it seems the AL cars are more rare. well, crap. i understand that CA back then is gonna need waaay more cars than AL, i get that obviously.

I am very seriously interested in:

A. a legit AL car that is as correct as possible, I plan on paint and stickers so if its pink on the outside but the mechanics are solid and everything isnt sold out of the interior, then not a huge easter-egg hunt.

B. A legit CHP car as complete as possible, interior ok, mechanicals sound.

C. Another UHP, mail mustang, Florida car, whatever, that could be painted to be a AL car. I really don't want a 'feaux' AL Mustang, but hey that's why there are a million Cobra Replicas, cause buying a real Cobra is tricky and expensive.

I do not expect to find a nice car for 2k. I get that too. I am willing to pay a fair market value, considering all factors and how far the car is from what I want it to be, where it is and all that.
I have a truck and trailer, and I have shipped VW's and racecars cross-country several times so im not worried about where the car sits now, as long as it seems to be the right one for me.

This car will be loved, restored, and cherished by my wife and I for a long long time.

I sincerely thank you for reading this, and if I find a car soon, then I will be back here with (hopefully less-than) the usual questions.

I am not a day-dreamer, I want in.

I wish I could camp out on here all day waiting, but alas my business and 20 employees don't care a bit about John's little Mustang dream. so, please please let me know if one comes up. I could maybe go 8-10k, ish, assuming that some work/parts still need to be done and I don't have to start with an every-day coupe with the right vin and that's it. a Perfect car, I will go to the bank if that's what it takes.

Sounds like I need to be much more interested in how many correct accessories/wheels I will need to hunt down for the inside to be close to right than the color the car may be now..

might trade up or down for a 63 T-bird with a 390 motor, all original black-plate CA car.

I thank you gentlemen.

respectfully,
John B.
Madison, AL
256-682-1096 cell