Stag Stag on Ebay

[Kensai]

Bclif linked me to this Stag that is currently up for sale on Ebay. After taking a look at the pictures, it is quite clearly the Stag I drove in high school and did some considerable restoration work on my first year of college. As the PO, it's kind of disappointing to see some of the modifications that have been made since I sold it. I spent many hours rebuilding a Ford 289 and doing the required work to mount it correctly in the engine bay. Also spent a considerable amount of money on body work to the panel behind the drivers door and the rear valence, as well as new paint. It also had a very nice set of dash wood I had refinished along with all new wood for the console. I'm all for modifying a car to your personal preferences, but doing this just to sell it seems pointless to me. Seems like a nice original Stag would be worth quite a bit more than I forsee this one going for. All it would have needed to be taken back to original after I did the engine swap would have been a swap back to the original engine, as I took pains not to do any irreversible modifications to the metal. Another example of someone who apparently doesn't have an interest in the hobby trying to make some cash I guess.

Here it is a few months before I sold it:

Here is the auction:

https://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1973-Triu...1QQcmdZViewItem

 

[tdskip]

Sorry someone hacked your obviously careful work...

 

[TRDejaVu]

Yuk. There are obviously boy-racers still out there in LBC land. I would have hoped that they might have grown up as the owner population ages with their cars, or at least moved on to rice-rockets.

 

[bcliff]

An interesting note on the integrity of the seller. I emailed and asked if they could confirm the VIN on the car. The reply was "No, different car".
Kensai and I have gone over the pictures with a fine toothed comb and there are a few details that would have been impossible to duplicate. Throttle linkage could only be described as "unique". Holley valve covers are not too common, and it would be odd that they would show up on two stags. As far as the 302, that is wrong too. The engine is out of a 68 mustang. In 1968 there was going to be a change over from the 289 to the 302. They ran out of 289 castings before they stopped building the 289. 302 castings were substituted but machined to 289 specs. When you pull the intake manifold there is a 302 cast into the block. However, measuring the bore and stroke will reveal it to be a 289.
If someone would email the seller a question and ask what the transmission, I'm sure that would provide further proof, but that may have been changed too. We put in a 81 Mustang 4speed OD transmission (3rd is direct 4th is OD).
What really pains me is the hood scoop. We took great pains in keeping the engine low enough to keep the hood stock.
Anyway it was a sweet car, I hate to see it turn out this way.
Bruce