First drive of '69 Mustang fastback to settle a bet

New Years 2007 I said "With God as my witness, I'll drive my '69 fastback on the 4th of July" as a fuel injected 5 speed car. It was a shell with missing engine, transmission, interior, electrical, driveshaft, etc.

About June 1, my friend started saying there's no way I could do it. So I borrowed the fuel injected 5.0 and 5 speed from my '67 coupe and dropped it in.

On the 4th of July, I started it up and drove it. I had just put a home-made clutch pedal in to get it going, so the clutch adjustment is way off, and there's no exhaust system, and for laughs I'm sitting on a milk crate instead of a seat. But I did drive it ;-)

Even the little 5.0 sounded like the apocalypse with open headers.

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[nulk1]

Dude trust me nothing screams"loser" more than someone who abuses a transmission like that..Did you by any chance do some last minute work on the Challenger shuttle?

[jamieK111]

Hey failure. If you want to see whether I know about cars, check out my collection of fuel injected, supercharged mustangs over at cardomain, same user ID.

[jamieK111]

Let me make it clear though, what makes you a loser isn't that you're calling me a moron when I have the career at NASA and the hand fabricated custom car collection and you're a 51 year old with pathetic NERF videos. It's that you project your internal negativity by posting anonymous negative comments on YouTube like a 15 year old girl. So have fun in the one area where people can't see what a loser you are, and don't forget to GFY :)

[jamieK111]

This Nulk, this is actually fun :) In real life, you'd never have the nerve to call me a moron, and even if you did, I couldn't yell at an old guy with 1/3 my education who's probably 1/2 my size without being called a bully :) It's fun :)  But obviously, I bet my friend I could "drive" the mustang shell so I threw a fuel injected motor in it with no wiring, home made clutch pedal, and no exhaust. I was more concerned with tweaking my friend and goofing around than finesse. The trans is fine.

[jamieK111]

And hey after you GFY, don't forget to post a video of something actually cool or challenging you've done that can't be replicated by a 14 year old :) Crap... My sincere apologies if you're developmentally disabled and actually 14 years old in some sense. That would explain the YouTube baiting, NERF mods, and PS2 videos :)

[The68Machine]

grind them gears

[Mr408mustang]

OMG....Did you drain the oil on that T5 yet?..Probably a handful of metal shaving in there..

[jamieK111]

Hey Douche. I'm a NASA research scientist, not a technician. I needed to drive the car to the end of the driveway before midnight to win a bet for fun. It made it with no damage. Why don't you post a video of all the classic Mustangs you've worked on if you're an expert, or something, anything, you've done that proves you're not a frustrated loser who picks anonymous fights. Then I'll post videos of the spacecraft I've worked on so I can prove to some idiot that I have the job I say I do.

[nulk1]

A nasa technician hahahahaha that is too funny..A car expert?...Any bonehead knows you don't try to force it in gear for 14 seconds of agonizing grinding of the transmission gears...If you had just shut off the engine you could have put it in gear with no grinding and restarted the engine....BUT I guess that finely tuned NASA engine may not have started from inside the car...I have forgotten more about classic mustangs than you will ever know....Dickwad..

[jamieK111]

Hey Nulk1 - nothing makes me laugh harder than being called names by a 51 year old who posts screen captures of his video game runs :) Nothing screams "LOSER" louder than that. I almost feel bad making fun of such an enormous loser, but you ask for it.. Douche.