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  2. Ronnie

    1988 headlight

    Remove the plastic cowl from over the radiator so you can see what's preventing the headlight from coming up. You can probably remove the linkage from the crankarm with the cover removed if needed.
  3. Jim Dear

    1988 headlight

    Thanks Daves89. I did see that. It's a fabulous "How To"... but I'm turning the knob plenty and pulling up pretty hard on the door and it won't budge. Not an urgent project as we don't drive it in the dark. Maybe I'll wait until next winter when I can take a slower approach. This site is a great resource. This is far from my first "classic" car or first challenge, but I've not previously owned any with pop-up lights, so there's always a first to tackle anything. That always goes the slowest as you're always afraid of breaking something made of unobtainium.
  4. Yesterday
  5. DAVES89

    1988 headlight

    The How to is in the "How to" on the tabs at the top of the page. Good luck.
  6. Jim Dear

    1988 headlight

    I purchased the kits from East Coast. The first instruction is to "manually raise the headlamps". I'm focusing first on the passenger side as that's the side that does nothing. When I spin the manual turn knob under the hood (it spins pretty freely), nothing at all happens. It stays locked shut. I've tried it with ignition on or off. Driver side works fine, though I'll do that side, too. Just wanted to start with the passenger side. Hints? I'm sure there's some easy trick I'm overlooking and making this harder than necessary.
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  8. Tell them you want the Mustang in the plot next to you.
  9. I have four plots in the graveyard where I took the photo of my Mustang. It's where my wife's family is buried. I bought two extra plots so my daughter, and maybe a husband if she gets one, could be buried beside us. I always joke that it's the most expensive property I ever bought if you price it by the square foot. πŸ™‚ I already had 3 plots in the graveyard where my father and mother are buried but my wife wants to be buried near her family. I told my wife and daughter they can do whatever they want with me after I'm gone. Burial, cremation or location doesn't matter to me. After I'm gone I'm not going to complain about what they decide to do with me. πŸ™‚
  10. I think a mural or maybe script of some sort like "Devil's Carriage"...
  11. I do like your old wheels. The ones you had on the Reatta. I also like the ones you are considering above. I am a bit surprised they didn't have a more bling or eye catching wheel on a special edition. You are right that the overall appearance is pretty vanilla, so it is somewhat a blank canvas. It really boils down to the image you have in your own mind; boy racer, personal luxury coupe, old guy elegance. 😁 I think you will know when you see them. Maybe you can get Foose to design something for you alone
  12. 2seater

    THE REATTA LOUNGE

    I have always called that the "song of the machine". I listen to it often, no matter what vehicle.
  13. Thanks for all the input! Sounds like I'd better get good at this! Ronnie, I'll try the reach from above next time, though my channel locks are way too long to clear the abundance of hard lines and stiff rubber lines and metal brackets around that area. I was surprised that the shorty vise-grips opened wide enough to grasp an 1-1/4" base.
  14. The wheels on my 1999 Mustang are the optional 17" wheels. Ford didn't offer a polished wheel as an option for Mustangs in 1999. In 1998 the optional 17" wheels, shown below, were polished. I like the '98 17" optional polished wheels much better than mine. Maybe they wouldn't be too hard to find. Think they would look good on my Mustang?
  15. I remember back in the late sixties, my dad bought 2 plots in a local graveyard near where we lived. There were 5 of us in the family. He said, "the first two to die get to be buried in those plots. The rest of you are on your own". What a joker.
  16. When you look at the photo below I took recently, and compare it to the photo above I took of my Reatta a few years ago, it is clear to me the Reatta is the best looking car. I think a Reatta body on a mustang chassis would be the ideal car for me. I took this photo at the graveyard while I was checking to see if anyone had stolen my grave plots. Never know when your going to need them at my age with my health issues, 😁
  17. Ronnie

    THE REATTA LOUNGE

    I saw he last eclipse we had here a few years ago. It got really dark. What I noticed the most was as the eclipse approached the shadows under the trees in my yard started to slowly disappear and eventually faded away. It was an eerie feeling to see that happen in the middle of the day.
  18. Ronnie

    THE REATTA LOUNGE

    I agree. I enjoy driving. My wife and daughter are just the opposite. For them a car is just a tool to get from point A to point B, so for them being in a car is a necessary inconvenience. My daughter always takes a plane whenever she can so she gets there faster, where to me it's more about the drive than the destination. Something that tics me off is when we go riding around in the Reatta, and now the Mustang, they want to play the radio all the time, where I like to leave the radio off and listen to the sound of the car purring down the road. I guess I'm just an old motorhead and doubt I will ever change. πŸ™‚
  19. 2seater

    THE REATTA LOUNGE

    If you are able, totality is what you want. Even in the center of the path, as the sun is gradually covered, the light takes on an odd character. The only way I can describe it, is it is flat, like soda without the fizz, but everything is still substantially lit. Color perception changes. If you have a view in the direction the shadow is coming from, you can see it approaching rapidly and everything sort of blinks out when it arrives. Not totally dark, but late twilight dark. The air miles away is still illuminated.
  20. I still think you should put flames on it!! At least ghost flames!!
  21. ship

    THE REATTA LOUNGE

    I was lucky enough to retire at age 54 in 2003 from State Street Bank after 20 years' service (I just love getting a pension check from them every month!). I got into the Buick hobby shortly after and decided to travel by car to Buick & Riviera annual auto meets, along with attending local cruise-ins and auto shows. I always feel that "journey by car" is the way to travel. My wife is not a fan of car travel, so she says; "go, enjoy, see you when you return". I only have two items on my bucket list: one is to travel to Italy where my maternal grandmother and grandfather were born; and two is to visit Pearl Harbor where my father was during WWII on Dec 7th. He was a survivor on the battleship Oklahoma. I have accumulated enough Delta SkyMiles over the years to be able to fly First Class to either/both places.
  22. The connector sometimes fails as well, in which case it will show a pressure a few bars below normal, and somewhat erratic.
  23. Ronnie

    THE REATTA LOUNGE

    Looks like according to the map (link below) I will be able to see about a 90% of the eclipse. That's not bad if the sky is clear on that day. Looks like your view of it will be about the same. Eclipse Path of Total Solar Eclipse on April 8, 2024 (timeanddate.com)
  24. 2seater

    THE REATTA LOUNGE

    Oh yeah, anyone on the direct centerline of the coming total solar eclipse next month? I know it is always weather dependent, but my wife and I travelled to Nebraska in 2017 for the last one. She had been in treatment for over a year prior to that, but we both were very glad we went. Nothing else like it.
  25. 2seater

    THE REATTA LOUNGE

    This guy is the same age as I am. I haven't had the trauma of a serious illness, but I did lose my career job of 38 years with the financial meltdown in '08, which oddly enough caused me to almost completely abandon professional sports. I watched the whiny players/drivers/professionals complain about their contracts and money, which just struck me as so selfish. It was a sort of epiphany of what was actually important. I had spent decades looking for things to complain about and I had everything I needed all along. Do what you want to do, not because someone else thinks it is needed, but what satisfies you. At the same time, I admit I need to be pushed a little, so striking a balance does take some thought. I am definitely not a type "A" person. I do get bursts of energy and enthusiasm for new things, occasionally, but I rarely rush into things. It probably drives my younger son nuts, a type A, as well as my sister, another type A. I tell them both, I will not be hurried and you can't make me, but I appreciate,(and need), them both. I lost my wife almost exactly six years ago now, prior to the pandemic, and of course the pandemic itself, which pretty much removed two years from everyone's life. I only have myself to worry about now, and maybe someday I will decide to get on a plane to somewhere else, (I do have a passport), but not today. I think about a train ride across Canada, or maybe a river cruise out west, and maybe that will happen, but only maybe. I don't feel alone. I am blessed with a few very good friends, and some close relatives, which I see regularly, what more do I need?
  26. Ronnie

    THE REATTA LOUNGE

    One of my daughter's hobbies is traveling to different places around the world. She's been on a safari in South Africa, Cruised the Nile, and visited all the popular places in Egypt including standing at the foot of The Pyramids. She has visited over a dozen countries including Iceland to view the Aurora Borealis. This year she has trips booked to visit countries in Europe again and plans to visit Auschwitz Concentration camp in Poland. You get the picture. She constantly nags me and my wife to go with her to visit these places and I continue to tell her I'm not interested. When she asked me to go to Poland with her this year, instead once again explaining to her why I don't want to go, I just handed her this article from the AARP magazine and told her that, although the article wasn't about me, it would explain why I don't want to go. I thought you older guys here on the forum might get a kick out of reading the article and understand why I always tell her no.
  27. I guess I just got use to the Reatta so it actually seems normal for me to ignore the extra power the Mustang has. It has took me a while to get use to mashing on the gas pedal the way I normally did in the Reatta when pulling away from a top sign or red light. Where the Reatta would pull away normally, the Mustang tends to jump with the same amount of pedal pressure. I've only got on the Mustang hard once. I was at a stop sign on a straight road where no one was around. I mashed the gas pedal about 3/4 the way to the floor and the tires started spinning. I let off and it shifted to second at about 4000 RPM. That is all I needed to know to tell me it had enough power to suite me. πŸ™‚ The only other time it has saw 4000 is when I decided to move the shifter from overdrive to drive like you can do in a Reatta. Little did I know that when you pull the Mustang shifter back one notch that you go into second gear. haha. There is a button on the side of the shifter to take it out of overdrive but I wasn't aware of that at the time. Ford does things a little different from GM and I learned about the button on the shifter the hard way. πŸ™‚ I've given some thought about a taller sidewall tire making the ride better but to keep the same tire diameter tires and speedometer reading I would have to go to 16" wheels. Some similar year Mustang GTs came with 16" wheels. I had a set of them on my Reatta for a while. I just hate to get new tires when the ones on the Mustang have less than 6000 miles on them. Below is the Mustang wheels I had on my Reatta. They aren't chrome but I spent a lot of time polishing them to look like chrome. I wish I still had them. I think they would look good on my Mustang. I'm starting to agree with you on the side stripe after seeing a Mustang on the road that had one. I'm thinking now that since the Mustang is stock like it came for the factory I might just keep it as is, maybe including the wheels, just to keep it original.
  28. How you keep your foot out of it, I cannot fathom😁 I know this may not be desirable, or even possible, but going to a smaller wheel with more rubber height would likely help the ride quality. Many things enter that calculation, looks, size of the brakes, handling, etc...but it may be worth an experiment? Another unsolicited opinion: I saw a similar Mustang drive by while I was at breakfast this morning. It was red with that lower side stripe in white. I think there is something about that stripe, even though nostalgic, that just doesn't look straight? It has the feel that it was applied as several short sections that almost line up, but not quite. Of course it is just my opinion, but to me, a small stripe should be used to enhance the body line, sort of in the pinstripe category, not as a standalone without the heft needed to be a feature. Again, just my narrow view of thingsπŸ₯΄
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