Looking for something like a nice Turbo Buick anywhere from daily driver status to a TSM style car. Would like to have some cash with any trade though. I have a trailer and can help with transportation if you are not too far from NJ.
Here are some details. If you don't like reading, skip to the pictures lol.
This car was done professionally top to bottom, inside and out. It was featured in Muscle Mustangs, Fast Ford, and 5.0 magazine. It has also won numerous other awards such as NMRA Best Engine, Fun Ford Weekend Best Engine and Paint, two-time Editor's Choice awards, three-time Fords at Englishtown winner, and many more. Here is a link to the online feature article from 5.0 for reference:
1988 GT Jim Ricchezza - 5.0 Mustang & Super Fords Magazine
More pictures can be seen here:
88 Mustang GT pictures by SS86 - Photobucket
The first thing you'll notice is the paint. The car was painted with all PPG products and the color-shifting PPG Harlequin paint theme tastefully continues throughout the car in not only the exterior flames, but the engine accessory brackets, injectors, A/C lines, coil springs, gas tank, transmission crossmember, the custom center console inside, and more.
Inside, the car sports an S&W 8 point cage, 2 Corbeau bucket seats up front with 5-point Corbeau harnesses, and rear seats reupholstered in matching Corbeau fabric. There are Autometer gauges for oil pressure and water temp in the A pillar and a 5" tach sits to the right of the driver. Stock gauges and climate knob backgroungds are now white face. The interior has plenty of custom billet as well. The door handles, window and lock switches, pedals, E-brake handle and so on are all billet aluminum. The custom center console features a Pioneer head unit, B&M shifter, and the same Harlequin paint theme as the exterior. In the hatch area sits the 10lb nitrous bottle also with Harlequin color-shifting flames. The rest of the interior like carpet, door panels, and dash are new or mint.
The motor is a professionally built 308" built for a 150+ wet shot of nitrous, but never sprayed. Everything is there and I believe the bottle is even full. Just screw the fuel line on and you can take it to warp speed. It consists of a DSS short block, ported Edelbrock Performer RPM heads, 1.7 FRPP roller rockers, custom ground Comp Cam, 30lb/hr FRPP injectors, 255lph BBK in-tank fuel pump, Paxton adjustable fuel pressure regulator, Holley SysteMax II intake, Accufab 70mm TB, Pro-M 70mm mass air, MAC cold air intake, BBK coated long tubes, BBK H-pipe, MAC pro dumps, and much more. All of it is detailed, polished, and/or painted. There is a Griffin radiator with polishing and a special shield with custom airbrushing. The transmission is an Art Carr built C4 with a reverse manual valve body and 3400rpm stall converter. The rear end is a fully detailed 8.8 with 3.55s and an aluminum girdle cover.
There are QA1 adjustable shocks in the rear, along with UPR tubular control arms upper and lower, spherical diff bushings, a UPR anti-roll bar, Eibach springs all around, etc. The front is completely powder coated and redone to better than new with factory A-arms and K member with Strange adjustable struts and caster/camber plates. There are 17x9 chrome Cobra R wheels all around with low profile Dunlop tires with nearly all the tread left.
There are so many things that probably can't even be seen in the pictures, but really make this car what it is. It is built to such a higher standard than the other cars at the track or local shows. The entire underside of the body was stripped and powder coated black. There are custom chrome covers on the welded in sub-frame connectors. The driveshaft is chrome. The top of the fire wall is mirrored to show how perfect even the back of the motor is. Just about everything under the hood is done in AN braided lines. The 8.8 diff has a paint job that rivals the top of the car.
The car mostly sits. It really needs to be driven and enjoyed by somebody. There are a few scrapes under the front valance that can only be seen if you really stick your head under there. There are a few other tiny marks on the car that have been racked up over the time since it was built, but nothing that is even noticeable to 99% of the people who will look at the car. I think a front parking light may need a light bulb too, but I don't drive it at night so I really don't remember. No other issues come to mind unless you consider that it could use a good detail. There is a very thick envelope of receipts that will come with the car. After looking through that you will see no expense was spared. There is also a copy of an appraisal for somewhere in the mid $30,000 range. I do not recall the exact amount.
Located in NJ and asking 29,500 OBO
John 856 905 1908
JohnNeville@Gmail.com
Here are some details. If you don't like reading, skip to the pictures lol.
This car was done professionally top to bottom, inside and out. It was featured in Muscle Mustangs, Fast Ford, and 5.0 magazine. It has also won numerous other awards such as NMRA Best Engine, Fun Ford Weekend Best Engine and Paint, two-time Editor's Choice awards, three-time Fords at Englishtown winner, and many more. Here is a link to the online feature article from 5.0 for reference:
1988 GT Jim Ricchezza - 5.0 Mustang & Super Fords Magazine
More pictures can be seen here:
88 Mustang GT pictures by SS86 - Photobucket
The first thing you'll notice is the paint. The car was painted with all PPG products and the color-shifting PPG Harlequin paint theme tastefully continues throughout the car in not only the exterior flames, but the engine accessory brackets, injectors, A/C lines, coil springs, gas tank, transmission crossmember, the custom center console inside, and more.
Inside, the car sports an S&W 8 point cage, 2 Corbeau bucket seats up front with 5-point Corbeau harnesses, and rear seats reupholstered in matching Corbeau fabric. There are Autometer gauges for oil pressure and water temp in the A pillar and a 5" tach sits to the right of the driver. Stock gauges and climate knob backgroungds are now white face. The interior has plenty of custom billet as well. The door handles, window and lock switches, pedals, E-brake handle and so on are all billet aluminum. The custom center console features a Pioneer head unit, B&M shifter, and the same Harlequin paint theme as the exterior. In the hatch area sits the 10lb nitrous bottle also with Harlequin color-shifting flames. The rest of the interior like carpet, door panels, and dash are new or mint.
The motor is a professionally built 308" built for a 150+ wet shot of nitrous, but never sprayed. Everything is there and I believe the bottle is even full. Just screw the fuel line on and you can take it to warp speed. It consists of a DSS short block, ported Edelbrock Performer RPM heads, 1.7 FRPP roller rockers, custom ground Comp Cam, 30lb/hr FRPP injectors, 255lph BBK in-tank fuel pump, Paxton adjustable fuel pressure regulator, Holley SysteMax II intake, Accufab 70mm TB, Pro-M 70mm mass air, MAC cold air intake, BBK coated long tubes, BBK H-pipe, MAC pro dumps, and much more. All of it is detailed, polished, and/or painted. There is a Griffin radiator with polishing and a special shield with custom airbrushing. The transmission is an Art Carr built C4 with a reverse manual valve body and 3400rpm stall converter. The rear end is a fully detailed 8.8 with 3.55s and an aluminum girdle cover.
There are QA1 adjustable shocks in the rear, along with UPR tubular control arms upper and lower, spherical diff bushings, a UPR anti-roll bar, Eibach springs all around, etc. The front is completely powder coated and redone to better than new with factory A-arms and K member with Strange adjustable struts and caster/camber plates. There are 17x9 chrome Cobra R wheels all around with low profile Dunlop tires with nearly all the tread left.
There are so many things that probably can't even be seen in the pictures, but really make this car what it is. It is built to such a higher standard than the other cars at the track or local shows. The entire underside of the body was stripped and powder coated black. There are custom chrome covers on the welded in sub-frame connectors. The driveshaft is chrome. The top of the fire wall is mirrored to show how perfect even the back of the motor is. Just about everything under the hood is done in AN braided lines. The 8.8 diff has a paint job that rivals the top of the car.
The car mostly sits. It really needs to be driven and enjoyed by somebody. There are a few scrapes under the front valance that can only be seen if you really stick your head under there. There are a few other tiny marks on the car that have been racked up over the time since it was built, but nothing that is even noticeable to 99% of the people who will look at the car. I think a front parking light may need a light bulb too, but I don't drive it at night so I really don't remember. No other issues come to mind unless you consider that it could use a good detail. There is a very thick envelope of receipts that will come with the car. After looking through that you will see no expense was spared. There is also a copy of an appraisal for somewhere in the mid $30,000 range. I do not recall the exact amount.
Located in NJ and asking 29,500 OBO
John 856 905 1908
JohnNeville@Gmail.com
