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My 2005 Mustang for $1,300

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Ok so I bought another mustang (in addition to my wife's). BUT this was pretty much a deal I couldn't pass up. Since I'm driving the Saturn right now, I think that this will make for a better daily driver than the Saturn, and I have every intention of either dropping a 5.0 into it, or if I'm too lazy I'll just flip it for a profit when I'm done. And it's kinda cool cause it's the same model and color as my wife's.

Story is I had a girl trade this 05 mustang in for a Jeep. After much arguing with my manager who wanted to give her $5k for her car, I convinced him to give her $1000 for it. Had to replace the battery in her Jeep and since we weren't making any money on the deal in the first place, boss said he was tacking it onto the cost of the trade making it $1200. I get to buy cars for $100 over our cost, hence $1,300 mustang.

It's Satin Silver exactly like my wifes, even has the same black stripe and all. V6 Automatic with red leather. Now let's get into the bad. This girl was the biggest pig you've seen in your entire life. Here's some pics from when I first traded the car in.



The disgusting trunk








And yes if you're wondering, those are thank god unused tampons laying in the back.


Day 1
So after getting a ****ing mask and gloves, I start emptying the trunk out.


Yes that is her nasty ass old underwear and bra in the trunk



Along with empty vodka bottles, fast food wrappers, and more I found 9 of these in the trunk. Apparently she would just eat yogurt, and toss the empty container into the trunk.




Day 2
Moved to the inside. Let us look at how disgusting this ***** was.
The film of dirt on every inch of everything


That's not discoloration, it's a film of dirty nasty **** over it.


Yep, that black **** is mold on the leather


And yes that white **** you see in the back of all the trash, had some mold in the carpet.


I don't even know how the **** she got stuff down into the shifter.


So I pull out the extractor and scrub brush and hit the carpet with hot water, and some chemicals.


Day 3
Decided to get to work on some of the interior stuff. Let us look at the E-brake. Groce!




Not perfect, but much better.


Now lettuce see what made me almost puke. I start using a screw driver to chip the stuck coins out of the drink holder.

But one of the detailers gave me some all purpose to spray in and leave it over night.


I come back and find that some of it has drained. Oh great, now it's a sludge and where did the liquid go? Well I put some gloves on and start feeling around to find that there is what appears to be a hole in the rear of the cup holder. But it isn't. There is apparently and insert in there I didn't know about.


What I found under the insert almost made me puke.
cup holder liquid - YouTube

So I took the wet vac and sucked it out, then got to cleaning.
cleaning the cupholders - YouTube

They came out pretty good.


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Moving on to the dash...
So much groce



Film on everything



But after many much scrubbing and a lot of all purpose


^Not to bad!

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Well technically 10-14 interior. There were some slight changes in the 13/14 years.


The 10 is the "05-09" driveline on the "11-14" chassis.
So that picture that was posted, could have been a 4.0, if the guy didn't say it was already a 3.7 ;)
Easy way to tell from the outside is 1 exhaust pipe=4.0 and 2=3.7L. Unless the dude with the 4.0 converted to dual.
Easy way to tell from the outside is 1 exhaust pipe=4.0 and 2=3.7L. Unless the dude with the 4.0 converted to dual.
I thought the 2010 had dual exhaust

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Just kidding
I thought the 2010 had dual exhaust

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Just kidding

Like your dual exhaust converted sixxer with the Raxioms??


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Like your dual exhaust converted sixxer with the Raxioms??


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With the fake upbading on it lol
I think it'd be cool if he cyclone swapped this thing, and put some gears in it. It'd give some 3V a run for their money.


Release the Kraken!!!
I think it'd be cool if he cyclone swapped this thing, and put some gears in it. It'd give some 3V a run for their money.


Release the Kraken!!!
It would give a lot of regular 3vs a surprise
How much are those engines going for nowadays? I'd assume not too much. And maybe a manual swap, plus gears. One mean sleeper. I'd definitely drive something like that.


Release the Kraken!!!
Last time I checked some places were starting to offer the Cyclones with harness and ecu for $2k. Depending on how hard it is to swap into an 05-10 v6 or even a 04 down V6 it could be one great swap.

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Wow. You do really, really nice work!!!


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I just read through the whole thread. Incredible transformation, I cannot believe those last pictures I am looking at, the paint looks nice and shiny and that may have been the worst interior on the internet. But before and after was incredible. Great work!
Car looks great i didn't think the carpets could be saved but awesome work. I don't understand how someone can be that dirty. :banghead:
Car looks great i didn't think the carpets could be saved but awesome work. I don't understand how someone can be that dirty. :banghead:

Just watch hoarders


Rollin' in my 5.0
Any news on this thing?
Yeah, it's been a while since we got an update on the car.


Pick your poison.
I know, what made me think of it was a spectacularly nice 05-09 (not sure what year, guy didn't stop) V6 on base. I mean it looked GREAT and I'm like "damn, dude on ME got one of those for $3000 into it total".
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Any news on this thing?
Yeah, it's been a while since we got an update on the car.


Pick your poison.
Sorry, not much of an update yet. With the move and everything, I just got the garage cleaned out and got a tool box.








But there are a few things you might like coming very soon ;)

Here's a sneak peak I took this morning.
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Late to the party but I just wanted to say, WOW I am really impressed with what you did for this Pony. You have literally given her a breath of new life and she will continue to purrr for you for years to come.

Your work ethics are also really impressive. I applaud you sir! Keep it up!
I like the hood Austin!


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