New Directions

Posted on April 13, 2025 by Mustang Maniac

For the last six months or so Adam and his team have been looking at Mustang Maniac’s future. Adam has decided he is getting older, so things need to change. Over those many meeting hours and lots of tea and Jaffa cakes being consumed, some very difficult decisions have finally been made; which we can now share with you.

What has prompted the decisions?

Over the last couple of years Mustang Maniac have become increasingly involved with work to repair and restoration jobs from other Mustang ‘specialists’ in order to get the cars where they should be. This has been a source of frustration for a while, but it has kept us busy. The frustration arose not from that stream of work coming into the workshops, but more of our frustration for the customers we then deal with. Understandably these customers aren’t very happy for being out of pocket for yet more repairs from us, more to the point they become disillusioned with their cars, which also makes us sad as they are great cars.

In a nut shell; we will not be taking on full restoration projects after we complete the ones we have in the pipeline.

What will happen to Mustang Maniac?

We’re still here and we’re not going away. We have repurposed the workshops and now have just the one large dedicated to our customers Mustangs, and now another general purpose one.

What does this mean for our long standing and loyal customers?

We will continue to maintain and look after their cars for the foreseeable future.

What will happen to Mustang Maniac parts store?

We will continue to sell the parts and continue to be the primary source of Mustang parts in the UK. In fact we are expanding our product lines to incorporate more Falcon parts and some Ford Transit parts too. We will continue to stock a massive amount of parts, for those really obscure parts that don’t sell, we won’t stock them of the shelf. But we will obtain them via special orders on our WebShop.

What will happen to the Mustang Maniac collection of cars?

They are staying. But, Adam might part with one or three if the money was right. We will let you know as and when (if) this happens.

WE would like to thank those customers who have had their cars restored with us and hope they continue to enjoy them for many years to come.

What will happen to the blog?

It will still be here giving our readers and followers updates on some repairs we undertake. The main focus will be on informing you of new parts in the WebShop and other things we get up to, such as car shows or business updates.

WebShop

WE are now starting to restore original Mustang parts, things like Engines, gearboxes, carburetors and so on. There seems to be a shortage for the original parts so we are going to rectify that, well that’s the plan.

We have started with a Ford 2100 carb where it has been stripped down, totally cleaned and new repair kits fitted where needed like seals, gaskets, jets, electro plating to look as good as new etc. The costs of the parts will reflect the amount of time we have put into each part. they may well differ for similar parts side by side, if we spent 4 hours on one and 2 hours on another there will be difference.

For those customers who want direct replacements as good as new at a reasonable prices, then this is the way to go.

Cars:

The ’65 Falcon has had some more fettling in our ‘bling bay’. The rear parcel shelf has been custom colour coded to the car.

Customer Cars

We have a nice 1970 vinyl roof coupe in for some tweaks which we have now completed.

We installed a center consul hump hugger which looks amazing in the car.

Adam is here checking things over before giving the final sign off.

To re-iterate: We are still here as Mustang Maniac as you know and love, it’s certainly NOT ‘over and out’, just a change in direction. We will be having those promised updates to the WebShop soon, but the database has turned into a monster with the changes we wanted, and needs moving (or some other technical explanation that went over our heads, hence the delay.

Thank you for your understanding. If you need to have work done or a project please email us on the email below and we will get back to you as soon as possible.

sales@mustangmaniac.co.uk

We can then advise you on what we can, will or won’t be undertaking once we have cleared out current customers projects and obligations.

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Tidy Up

Posted on March 2, 2025 by Mustang Maniac

We last posted towards the end of last year and had every intention to post just after the new year. However, things changed pretty quickly and we embarked on a many new projects behind the scenes that have taken up a lot of our time. We have revamped the workshops, we have moved things around in our yard which means it was all hands to the pump to get it all done.

On our technology side we are working heavily behind the scenes on the Mustang Maniac WebShop pages, they have received a new look and will be getting even more tweaks shortly. We think we now have a cleaner, fresher and faster loading home page.

We’re trying to make it easier to navigate the whole parts listing after some customer feedbacks, this was one such comment; ‘There is so much stuff and parts, I don’t know where to find it all’, which we are pleased to have been bought to our attention. There are now new sections for the various year of Mustangs, once selected the various parts listings can be found there, it’s not perfect yet, but we are getting there. We now have a dedicated Sales section which will change very regularly, sometimes by the hour, once it’s gone – it’s gone! We now have a huge sidebar that has been tidied up as well, but it still needs more work to categorise for easier navigation all of which will be coming soon. The search function is also looking for a few tweaks too.

The special update that we promised a while ago is still going to happen, very soon. We had put the change into pilot environment and encountered an abnormality. Many guest to our site may not even notice, but we weren’t happy with it. As a result the simple change (or so we thought) has unexpectedly taken additional months (literally) of development. We’re sure what we are planning will be an absolute first anywhere. We can’t wait to share it with you, after what will be nearly a years worth of work for research, creating new databases, actual proof on concept and of course making those all those components work on the website, all in a simple and easy to use process. It may not look much when you see it. but behind the scenes a lot is going on.

Customer Cars

A customer has a very nice 1965 Falcon which needed some Mustang Maniac fettling and was bought into us for our special unmatched know how.

Under the hood a fair bit of work has taken place. The engine was cleaned up to get a good base for a fresh coat of paint. A new distributor replaced the old worn out one, new HT leads, a change of air pan and filter, and a pair of nice new rocker covers were fitted. With so many ignition parts being changed a carb mixture tune up as well as timing are a must to ensure smooth running.

The we fitted a battery isolator, replaced some tired nuts and bolts. We changed out the rocker covers for some nice new, yet subtle covers.

Bodywork was fine, but there was a report of wind whistling when getting up to speed. This was down to the windows not being aligned correctly and needed some adjusting. The door strips were also replaced to help with the wind noise and sealing from the elements.

We added some sound proofing and compartment separator card to the trunk.

The stock radio is getting some fancy internal upgrades for Bluetooth and DAB functionalities which we can organise for some customers. This retains the original look with the modern functions. It’s not the cheapest of ways to upgrade the sound system, but it does retrain that all important originality.

Perhaps one of the best features of the Falcon?

All parts are straight of our extensively stocked shelves, not just the usual parts many people tend to stock, but the hard to get and not often sold parts. If you want anything and everything for your Mustang or Falcon, your one stop WebShop is all you need.

Stay Safe & Take Care!

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Merry Christmas From Mustang Maniac

Posted on December 25, 2024 by Mustang Maniac

From all of us at Mustang Maniac, we would like to wish all our friends and loyal customers, a very Merry Christmas & Happy New year. Thank you for your support.

We will be back the first full week in the new year 2025 to dispatch your orders.

Don’t drink and drive & stay safe on the roads!

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Six Of One, Half A Dozen Of The Other

Posted on December 9, 2024 by Mustang Maniac

Today we are announcing the annual Mustang Maniac Christmas Holiday break dates, where we will be closed. The closures will include the main offices being closed as well as our WebShop. The closures will mean that there will be no daily dispatches during that time. The closures are as follows:

Closed

20th December from 4pm

Open

7th January 9am

Although the Christmas Holiday break is a complete shut down, there may be very limited support via email, but that will depend on the signal while Adam is away. You can of course still purchase our gift vouchers which are now purchased online where they can be printed at home without having to wait for delivery. Click on the images below to go straight to our WebShop to purchase what you need. These are a perfect way to buy the Mustang enthusiast in your life an option to buy what they need once we re-open in the near year.

Please make sure that purchase any items you may need over the Christmas Break in plenty of time to avoid disappointment.

Our Projects

There is a well known saying in the UK as ‘Six of one, half a dozen of the other’. The meaning is; two alternatives are equivalent or indifferent; it doesn’t matter which one we choose. In this case we have two engines, both are indeed inline six pots, but they couldn’t be further apart.

The first is a standard I6 going back into our 1965 Falcon shop truck. The engine has been rebuilt, but the carb is going to be replaced with a fuel injection alternative. Our engineering department have made a bespoke intake for the throttle body. As far as we know this will also be a first, but don’t worry will be bringing you build as we get round to it.

Now, the other I6 is Adam’s little project which will be a bit of a monster in his fastback. We are being a little bit vague for a reason, which will become clearer nearer the time. We have given a few hints in the past, but we will give you a few more pictures as a tease.

The other ‘little’ bolt on bits which we have been shown before;

The project is moving along as put the rear end back together, we now have the diff and fuel tank in place which will be a non standard option for what we have in mind. At the front end a little bit more pipe work is required. We have lost count of the number of times the engine and the bolt ons have been in and out again as we take measurements for engineering to fabricate for us.

The breathed on I6 for this fastback needs to have some front end bespoke work for the steering, which we won’t be showing just yet, but we will when the time is right. Watch this space!

With all the power on tap we will have, we also need to be able to stop. We have a little bit of an upgrade there too, we need to make a couple of little ‘mods’ for what we want and the look we are after. But nothing we haven’t dealt with before.

Back to the Christmas Holiday break, we would like to thank you for your understanding. As we said earlier, please make sure you place your order in with plenty of time to allow us to dispatch the order and allowing for the inevitable busy postage services during this time of year.

Stay Safe & Take Care!

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Something A Bit Different

Posted on November 3, 2024 by Mustang Maniac

This year’s Classic Car Show at the Birmingham NEC is held next week on the 8 – 10th November. We have been asked if we would like to show a car or two, so we thought why not. Rather than taking our much loved ’66 Hertz Shelby or our ‘64.5 Official Pace Car or our Shelby American’s (one of one) test car, we decided to take a couple of cars to the show that are different. There are usually the later model Mustangs or the classics, nothing really in between, until this year that is.

We have dusted of a couple of our own cars that should spark some debate at least, a Mustang II and a Fox Body. Not the most popular era of Mustangs, but these are few and far between, and are now starting to ask for some decent money for good examples.

Up first we have the 1978 Mustang II in yellow, the car has had a little pampering as it was tucked up in the forgotten corner of our yard. The paint may have looked a little tired, but the original interior has stood up very well to the test of time. Here the half and half cleaning step to see the before and after progress.

A little later is our 1989 Fox Body convertible. This car has always been a love it or hate it Mustang. Again it was in the other corner of our yard and cleaned up very well.

We had some perished and cracked rubber belts so Adam has them in stock and were replaced before firing up the engine. It took a couple of attempts after the fuel was drained and swapped out.

The original interior on this Fox has stood the test of time and looks almost showroom fresh. Dusty, needs a vacuum, but it will clean up very nicely and you won’t see a much better example than this.

These two ladies will be on the Mustang Owners stand, they’re not for sale. But, if you was to make a sensible offer to tempt Adam, they could be yours. Pop over to the Mustang Owners Stand and say hello.

Thanks to Lance who has gone above and beyond to make these cars look good enough to be shown again. Barn find? Not quite, but we did find a couple of different cars for the show. Thoughts on the middle year Mustangs?

Stay Safe & Take Care!

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Still Going Strong

Posted on September 22, 2024 by Mustang Maniac

Contrary to some social media speculation – Mustang Maniac is still here, going strong and serving our loyal customers as we have done for years. The only thing is that we are still very busy and we are now having to be particularly picky about the cars we service and restore. There is a waiting list for us to service and look after many cars and we have had to disappoint some customers on time delays before we get to see their cars in our workshops. We won’t say it will take two weeks and still have your car six months later. We would rather get the cars in, work on them turn them around back to the customer in the time scales we predict. The customer car storage is a premium for us now, so we are operating little and often to keep focused on the cars we have in the workshops. Our yard has taken on some massive changes over the last couple of months with one of our workshops in the process of being relocated as we need the space for easier access. Our WebShop is growing and diversifying in the number of parts and type of cars we are now holding stock for. We will have an amazing upgrade to the WebShop pages we are looking to bring to live soon. As far as we know, what we have in development will be a real first on the internet for such a project. It was complicated behind the scenes researching the various oddities as nothing was definitive from many different sources. We now believe what our media team has compiled is something unique with their relentless quest for that all important accurate data. We will bring you more on that once we have our website gurus work out how to best create what we want on our WebShop pages.

Customer Cars:

We mentioned many posts ago about the dangers of of using the nasty ethanol fuel that our government are forcing us to use. It’s rubbish fuel, cheap supermarket fuel is not the same as premium refined fuel. Cheap high ethanol fuel will damage your car unless you take precautions. The major precaution? Don’t use it. Use the best fuel you can, you car will thank you for it so will your wallet in the long run. We could say nothing and just let our customers buy lots of fuel parts as a result. That’s not us, we want to help you, our customers with the best common sense advice where we can.

With that in mind, a car had been sitting unused for a while and the car wouldn’t run. This is a great car and well looked after, other than the fuel itself. We took a sample from the fuel tank and could tell by the smell without even looking at the sample it was bad fuel and gone ‘off’.

We took a deeper dive into the carb and it was evident that it was going to need some man hours. The carb was taken apart and the fuel in the float bowl was same as the fuel tank as you would expect.

The fuel had corroded and blocked some of the delicate parts. The rebuild kit has rubbers, gaskets and everything you need to get it back to together again. The car needed a full clean and descale of all loose debris before we could even start the rebuild. A good few hours later the car was bolted back to the engine, plumbed in and some proper fuel primed in. With such a strip down the air/fuel mixtures and idles needed to be reset. The dark art of carb tuning with a screwdriver, a human ear and a test drive is what is needed on these beautiful cars. After the initial calibrations and setup we left the car for at least a day and half for cold start, this was the result from that cold start. No pre-warming or pre-starting for this video, a genuine cold start.

The car starts and now runs so much better. However, in this case the customer was lucky as sometimes the ethanol corrosion is so bad that the carb is beyond repair. If that’s the case then you are talking a good few hard earned pound notes for a new one, depending on wallet and options for the replacement.

The car now runs as good as it looks.

Our Cars

We have been working on a development project on an older car before we transfer what we have learned onto the final project car. That’s the advantage of having many cars at various stages of restoration to choose from. Here is a teaser of what we are doing.

The best bit? If you know, then you know!

It will be a while before we get this project to where it needs to be. But, it will be coming to street near you!

WebShop

We are keeping our stocks to the max where we can. We have been noticing that some parts are now becoming difficult to get hold of again and almost back to Covid type levels of stock. Not ideal obviously, but the prices have shot up as a result. We are holding some of those hard to get parts in stock, no doubt once those parts are replenished from back dated stock prices will have to reflect that.

Stay Safe & Take Care!

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Mustang Owners Club Annual Show 2024

Posted on June 23, 2024 by Mustang Maniac

The Mustang Owners Club of Great Britain host a show each year where lots of cars attend from all over the counties. This year was an important date as it was the 60th anniversary of the launch of the Mustang. The show was held not far from us at Meldreth in Cambridgeshire. We had a number of customers who would be attending. The weather didn’t look promising early morning, but it was forecast no rain after nine in the morning. The gates to the show were due to open at ten so many of the expected cars did turn up. We arrived a little bit later than expected, in convoy with Lance in his GT350 and Adam with his ’73 convertible. The show did have good attendance and the weather held off all day just as predicted. There was some awesome cars there, a number of which were our customers and projects we had worked on.

Although we were on the last line as we arrived, more followed us in throughout the day. What we have for this post is a collection of the cars together and particular ones that took our fancy. That way we keep the size of the post down and try to show all of the cars. In no particular order;

There was a number of trophies up for grabs for various age ranges of cars. The judging is quite thorough and Concours style marking. In other words you start of with 100 points and they knock marks off when something isn’t right or just dirty.

There was a good selection of cars to be judged from all generations. The presentation was due to take place at three in the afternoon.

One of our loyal customers entered his car and won the 1964 – 1968 Concours trophy. Well done, Mart from onemanandhismustang.com

We had a great day, spoke to lots of people, had a few offers from the convertible, but not in the ball park it should be. They seemed to be tyre kickers just chancing their luck with Adam for a deal. Adam has said many times before; ‘I will make a deal with anybody – as long as the money is right’.

Stay Safe & Take Care!

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Enfield Pageant Of Motoring 2024

Posted on May 26, 2024 by Mustang Maniac

This time last year we were told that the Enfield Pageant of Motoring was going to be the last one. But this year it was on again. Many car enthusiasts were going to vote with their wheels and not turn up due to the ridiculous charges just to drive to a car show, then paying £10 per car to get in. The ULEZ (Ultra Low Emission Zone at £12.50 per day) and the Congestion charge at £15 per day, was not applicable to cars over forty years old. That would have been a total of £37.50 to get into the show which is a ridiculous amount of money for anybody. We were pleased to see that the show was well supported with a huge selection of cars were there again this year as they were exempt.

There was a huge turn out on the field and a customer volunteered to take some photo’s for us, we did say to take pictures of the Mustangs and some nice Americana. In the excitement of the second day we forgot to look for another ‘volunteer’ to take some pictures for us. So we only have have the pictures from Saturday.

A few customers cars turned up early and we went for an all you can eat breakfast at the Toby Carvery on the corner. When we got back we were pleased to see that there was more car customer’s cars parked up. Adam had his red ’73 convertible (which is up for sale), his F350 flat bed truck, his Turquoise Falcon and an electric buggy. The reason for the buggy is that one of our good customers had an operation on their knee and wouldn’t be able to walk around the show. Adam wanted to help out and decided to take the road legal buggy for him, but we think it was an excuse for Adam to go buzzing around the field looking for bargains!

The ’73 convertible below is up for sale, if you are interested get in contact with us, it could be yours!

We even had an imposter in form of a rather nice Pontiac GTO.

Adam looked relaxed in the sun and was enjoying the day.

Other Mustangs around the show, the classics first;

There was some nice newer models;

Some UK ‘fast Fords’ as they were known;

Some rare Crayford Cortinas and a few rather nice UK Fords;

Then we took a selection of photos of some nice American cars;

We’ve had a good couple of days at the show, but we are thinking that this year is the last Mustang Maniac pitch at the show! Unless Adam changes his mind that is, but he quite sure this was the last show.

Thanks to Mart from onemanandhismustang.com for sharing a selection of his photos with us.

Finally, a big thanks to everybody who turned up to say hello to us and again made it a nice couple of days. Adam got some new customers and spoke to many friends and loyal customers.

Stay Safe & Take Care!

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The Mouse Goes Home

Posted on April 28, 2024 by Mustang Maniac

We have completed the restoration of the ‘Mouse Mustang’ and we have to say it came out well. Headliners are always a pain to get right and require some patience to stretch and hold in place until the material settles down. We have a little trick to speed things up a bit but we won’t be sharing all our little secrets on here.

Park & Pic

What can be better than a ’68 390 Fastback in Green? Not much!

You can always send us a pic of your car parked outside the Mustang Maniac offices and we will post it up for you. You would get to be the lead car on the blogpost too.

WebShop

After the Easter break we had a few packages to go out on the Tuesday. Although we did post some out on the Saturday prior as a good customer wanted a special delivery of his parts next day. He didn’t mind paying the additional charges that were incurred, as it he realised it’s the price you just have to pay. These pictures show the bulk of the two days orders, after most of the smaller parts had already been loaded onto the Parcel Force van.

We do have other projects on the go, but we can’t bring them to you in full just yet. But a sneak peak of what Adam has in mind as well as the workshop! Again this is another one of those – ‘If you know, then you know’ type of photos. Don’t worry all will be revealed once we get this project going.

Stay Safe & Take Care!

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Things Are Changing

Posted on March 11, 2024 by Mustang Maniac

Our last post was a couple of months ago, since then we have been receiving regular emails to ask if we are still open. Yes we are, the WebShop has not changed apart from the extra stock lines now in place, so you can still order 24 – 7. You can still order your Mustang/Falcon/Transit parts exactly as before. We have even added a new section called ‘Sale Items‘ that are there for clearance. These are unique sales and once they are gone then they are gone. There is anything from 1964 to 2024, items may change everyday, so keep popping back for a bargain. If you see it and want it, buy it – don’t wait.

https://mustangmaniac.co.uk/parts/Sale_Items/65

Things have been very busy and as far the blog goes there wasn’t much to report before we get things finalised. We are still working on cars, we are still fully booked so we are being very selective about what we are doing and when as a result. Just because we haven’t posted for a while – don’t worry as the biggest Mustang parts supplier is still here.

Changes are happening within the Mustang Maniac yard and a there are a few projects we have plans for, we can’t divulge details just yet though, so it’s a case of watch this space. We can give a little teaser or two of what we have coming.

If you know, then you know!

If you need to contact us then the email: sales@mustangmaniac.co.uk is still your best bet and we will do our best to get back to you as soon as we can.

Drive Safe & Take Care!

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