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1965 Ford Mustang Fastback Restored
Carla Coleman's Father Bought This '65 Fastback Brand-New. She And Husband Jerry Have Rebuilt It Into A Modern Cruiser
In November 1964, Charles Modesitt placed an order for a Rangoon Red '65 Mustang fastback. While most buyers chose the new fastback body style for its sporty looks, Charles and his wife Shirley had a more practical reason-they liked the fold-down rear seat because it provided a convenient place for their 3-year-old daughter, Carla, to sleep while traveling. Other than the C-code 289, the car had no other options, not even a radio.
You can't say that the fastback isn't well-equipped today. After Carla and her husband Jerry took possession of the car in 2004, they embarked on a full-scale restoration with the goal of upgrading the Mustang with modern equipment. Today, the once plain-Jane fastback is equipped with all the latest amenities, including a stroker small-block, five-speed transmission, power windows and door locks, tilt steering, and even a navigation system.
Carla remembers growing up with the Mustang. For 25 years, her father drove the fastback to his job at General Dynamics in Fort Worth, Texas. When the odometer rolled over to 125,000 miles, Charles bought one of the first Tauruses as his everyday driver and parked the Mustang in his car port. Carla remembers people knocking on the door in hopes of purchasing the fastback, but Charles' answer was always, "It's not for sale."
As a teenager, Carla learned to drive in the three-speed Mustang. "Once I mastered stopping, starting, and the 'clutch-on-a-hill trick,' Dad let me drive it alone," Carla says. "It wasn't long before I had my first fender bender, hitting a car in front of me. When I got home, Dad asked, 'Is the Mustang okay?' He could have asked about me first!"
In 2004, Charles decided to give the car to his daughter and son-in-law. Jerry remembers, "It had the original but faded Rangoon Red paint, and the engine was clicking and smoking when he drove it into our driveway."
Jerry took the car apart but was still undecided about whether to restore to original or rebuild as a restomod. He already knew that the original 289 had been replaced in the 1970s. Then, while checking out the restomod parts in a Mustangs Plus catalog, he and Carla decided to build the car to its original appearance but add modern equipment. Jerry began ordering parts from Mustangs Plus and Dallas Mustang, then delivered the disassembled fastback to Ronnie and Mary Killion at Lazy K Garage in Dallas.
As you can see from the specs, the finished product is something that Charles could not have imagined in 1964. From a plain fastback with no options, the car is now the ultimate in modern upgrades. Other than the white LeMans stripes and bumper-usable Shelby R-model front valance, the body maintains its classic fastback shape. Inside, however, is nearly every resto-modification available for a vintage Mustang, from a 401hp stroker with five-speed to all the creature comforts.
Coleman '65 Fastback
- Rangoon Red basecoat/clearcoat with Performance White Shelby stripes; painted by JKL Paint & Body
- Steel-reinforced Shelby hood with Ring Brothers hinges
- Branda bumper-usable Shelby R-model front valance
- Rolled fenders
- Shaved bumper bolts, emblems, firewall, and dash tri-bar headlights with upgraded bulbs
- LED brake and turn signal lights
- Tin Man subframe connectors
- Keith Craft 331 stroker-401 hp, 407 ft. lb. torque
- TFS heads
- Cobra intake with Holley 670-cfm carburetor
- Ford Racing E303 roller cam
- Cobra valve covers (tall versions), air cleaner, and oil pan
- March serpentine pulley system
- MSD ignition with 6,200-rpm pill
- Hooker Competition Plus coated headers
- 2 1/2-inch Magnaflow stainless steel exhaust system
- 200-amp single-wire alternator
- Holley chrome mechanical fuel pump
- 3/8-inch stainless fuel line
- Fuel Safe 16-gallon fuel cell
- Adjustable motor mounts
- Northern aluminum radiator
- Spal electric fan
- World Class T5 five-speed transmission
- Centerforce clutch
- Underdash RRS hydraulic clutch
- Modern Driveline internal clutch slave cylinder
- Remote Speed shifter
- Aluminum driveshaft
- Custom-width 9-inch rearend with Strange axles
- 3.89 Ford Traction-Lok differential
- Underdash RRS power brakes
- '05 Mustang front disc brakes
- Ford Racing rear disc brakes
- Lokar console-mounted emergency brake
- Pony Interior upgrade
- Pontiac Fiero bucket seats with Infinity speakers in head rests
- Custom console with engine start button, power window switches, and clock
- Kenwood AM/FM DVD and CD navigation receiver
- Infinity pre-amp mounted above trunk
- Infinity subwoofer in trunk side panel
- Dyno Mat-doors, headliner, floors, quarter-panels, and firewall
- Reverse-activated rear camera
- Trunk-mounted Optima battery
- H3R Performance fire extinguisher
- G-Force four-point racing seatbelts
- Four-point back-seat usable rollbar
- JME instrument cluster with AutoMeter Ultra Lite gauges and Ultra Lite II speedo
- Old Air Products Hot Rod Hurricane air conditioning with dehumidified defrost
- Electric Life power windows
- Auto Lok power door locks with remote
- Power trunk lock with remoteKeyless entry
- ididit tilt steering column
- Shelby steering wheel
- Classic Performance Products front suspension
- Unisteer power rack-and-pinion steering
- Shelby drop
- 1-inch sway bar
- Street or Track roller spring perches
- GT front springs less 1/4 coil
- Five-leaf mid-eye rear springs
- KYB GR-2 gas shocks
Tires and Wheels:
- Boyd Coddington Sultan Old School wheels, 17x8 with 4 3/4-inch backspacing
- BFGoodrich tires, 225/45-17 front and 235/45-17 rear
Misc Features:
- '03 Mustang Cobra high and low horns
- Under fender heater hoses and A/C lines
- Hidden wiring
- Summit wiring harness


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Yoda wrote:Shpongle wrote:Done with Middle Earth Shadow Of Mordor, which was one of the best games i played so far this year
And yesterday started playing the new Borderlands The Pre Sequel, i love the borderlands series
Word Borderland is the shit. Sniper rifle and heashots is my fav way to play . Will definitely be buying that
AC 4 is starting to become a drain tbh. There's too much time at sea for me liking. Still gonna complete it though
Word bro, headshots and watch them burn to death That's the problem with AC4, it doesn't feel like an AC game for me, but it's fun nevertheless

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As we await the final round of the 2012 U.S. Open, the story of the week has been the young amateur Beau Hossler. He is a 17-year-old junior from Santa Margarita High and he is tied for eighth, four off the lead. There's a lot to say about a performance like this on a course that is humbling the best golfers in the world. Prop yourselves up against something sturdy as we take a look at what everyone is talking about.
At 17, Beau Hossler braces for success [Sacbee]
The 17-year-old with the braces on his teeth is a rock star now, the Justin Bieber of the sports world.
U.S. Open: Teen Beau Hossler stays in contention [Mercury News]
Beau Hossler now officially means business.
The 17-year-old Orange County kid with a mouth full of braces had repeated his U.S. Open goal all week: be the low amateur at Olympic Club.
Teenager Beau Hossler takes U.S. Open by storm as 17-year-old enters final round just four shots behind co-leaders [NY Daily News]
Seventeen-year-old Beau Hossler has his sights set a little bit higher going into the final round of the U.S. Open.
"I still have the goal to be low amateur, but my goal now is to win the tournament," he said through his braces.
The Teenager Atop the Open Leaderboard [WSJ]
The teen with the braces has been consistent, shooting even Thursday and one-under through 11 holes Friday.
Woods, Furyk, Toms share U.S. Open lead [USA Today]
Beau Hossler, a braces-wearing, fresh-faced lad all of 17 years old, ignited midday buzz around the rugged Lake Course at venerable Olympic Club on Friday in the second round of the 112th U.S. Open.
Beau Hossler shows poise well beyond his 17 years [GolfDigest]
Through 11 holes Friday, the 17-year-old from Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif., sat at two under for the championship, gaining a new legion of fans as the high school junior claimed a one-stroke lead over Jim Furyk and Tiger Woods and looked more at ease than anyone wearing braces has any right to be when playing a major championship.
Forget Feel-Good Story: 17-Year-Old Aims to Win [NY Times]
He did a national television interview and, in a quieter moment with reporters, was asked if he could indeed win the Open.
"Absolutely," he said, barely flashing a smile that showed off his braces.
Teen amateur Beau Hossler believes he can win US Open; within 4 of lead after even-par round [Star Tribune]
While fans would serenade Mickelson with a chorus of "Happy Birthday" when he finished No. 18, they gave the kid in braces a standing ovation, shouting "Hook `Em Hossler" for his commitment to play at Texas in 2013
Beau knows Opens; no 10-shot rule news to players [AP]
Then, the 17-year-old in braces shot an even-par 70 at Olympic Club in the first round Thursday and was six shots better than Mickelson, a four-time major champion.
Man, this has been like pulling teeth.
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The good news? Cuban energy officials are taking the lessons of the BP oil spill disaster very seriously, according to a group of oil drilling and environmental experts just back from Cuba, including the co-chairman of the Bipartisan National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling (also former EPA administrator), the head of the International Association of Drilling Contractors, a former senior executive for Royal Dutch Shell, and a longtime Cuba expert with the Environmental Defense Fund.
The bad news? Less than three months before deep water drilling begins in Cuban waters in the Gulf of Mexico, neither Congress nor the Obama administration has taken the necessary steps to help prevent or respond to a similar disaster that could impact even more US coastline. Granted, it seems a bit far-fetched to imagine the present Congress sending any legislation to the president these days, so the burden of preparedness essentially rests with the administration.
That's got CNN's Fareed Zakaria wondering, "What in the World?"
"What happens if there's another oil spill? Will it be easy and quick to clean up? No. You see, the nearest and best experts on safety procedures and dealing with oil spills are all American, but we are forbidden by our laws from being involved in any way with Cuba. Our trade embargo on Cuba not only prevents us from doing business with our neighbor but it also bars us from sending equipment and expertise to help even in a crisis. So, if there is an explosion, we will watch while the waters of the Gulf Coast get polluted."
Just days before the BP disaster struck last year, Jorge Piñón, the foremost expert on oil drilling in Cuba and where US policy intersects it, and I urged the US to talk to Cuba about oil spill prevention and response. At that time, deepwater exploration in Cuban waters was slated for late 2010. Unfortunately, the BP disaster made our call for prevention and planning with Cuba all the more salient.
Now, after several delays, with a Chinese-built Italian oil rig, the Scarabeo 9, on its way to Cuba, drilling of the first of five exploratory wells in Cuban deep water is set to commence this December.
A spill from this first, easternmost exploratory well to be drilled by the Repsol consortium could be particularly damaging due to its location where the Gulf Stream exits the Gulf of Mexico for the Atlantic. Whereas the BP disaster was somewhat "contained" in the northern Gulf, Piñón tells me to "imagine a fan-shaped spill with the well as the axis." If something were to go wrong on Scarabeo 9, we could see and feel the effects of a major oil spill in Cuban deep water not just in Florida, but far up the Atlantic coast.
If ever there were a moment to put aside political posturing about Cuba, this would be the moment. Will the Obama administration rise to the challenge? Despite a near-total, half-century-old trade embargo against Cuba, the president has broad authority to issue regulations that would mandate US preparedness and cooperation with Cuba – and other countries, like Mexico and the Bahamas – to prevent and respond to an oil spill. Given that drilling is set for less than 90 days from now, there's no time to lose.
Here's what Jorge Piñón tells me he'd recommend, all of which can be done within existing executive branch authority:
1. The United States and Cuba should begin conversations to develop a joint protocol or an emergency coordination response agreement, such as the one currently in place between the United States, Mexico, and Canada, which would coordinate emergency services, establish joint response teams, establish rapid incident notification mechanisms, and set up joint operations centers and communication procedures along with regular exercises and meetings.
2. The United States administration should move to exempt United States oil equipment and supply companies from the US embargo regulations in case of an oil spill in Cuban waters by providing an industry wide general license for export only in the case of an emergency situation which would threaten our shared marine environment.
3. Rapid response oil spill services providers such as Helix Well Containment Group and Marine Well Containment Company should be granted licenses to provide emergency services to international oil companies operating in Cuba in the case of an oil spill.
Helix Well Containment Group and the Marine Well Containment Company are companies which provide a comprehensive and integrated rapid response system in the case of a major oil spill incident; their members/shareholders are among the largest operators of deepwater oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, including companies such as Repsol, Statoil and ENI (Owner of the Scarabeo 9).
4. Cuba's national oil company CUPET should be allowed to join the International Association of Drilling Contractors – IADC – in order to gain experience in deepwater drilling by the sharing of industry health, safety and environmental best practices through IADC conferences, training seminars, and technical publications in areas such as drilling and completion technology; standards, practices, legislation and regulations which provide for safe, efficient, and environmentally sound drilling operations.
It took the Obama administration well over a year to issue its regulations facilitating more academic, religious, and people-to-people exchanges with Cuba in January (and once issued, it still took nearly three months to issue guidance on the regulations). That unnecessary, politically driven delay was excruciating, but there's no room for politics or delay when it comes to oil spill prevention and response. And forget case-by-case licensing for US companies that offer training, supplies, or clean up. Why take a chance with such a limiting approach? To ensure the best and fastest disaster preparedness and response, Piñón recommends industry-wide general licensing.
Hopefully, the White House got a full debrief from Mr. O'Reilly and his colleagues on their timely trip to Cuba, and with it, a renewed sense of urgency to get broad, forward-thinking regulations out lo mas pronto posible.
--- Anya Landau French blogs for The Havana Note, a project of the "US-Cuba Policy Initiative," directed by Ms. Landau French, at the New America Foundation/American Strategy Program.


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PORTLAND, Ore. – It looked bleak at the start, but thanks to a four goal deluge over a nine minute span, the LA Galaxy earned a 5-3 victory over the Portland Timbers.
Lifted by the play of their three designated players –in particular David Beckham – the Galaxy wiped out an early deficit in what was an exciting back-and-forth contest.
A few notes on the match:
- The Galaxy's four goals in nine minutes ties an MLS record for the shortest span to four goals. Tying a record set on May 19th, 2004 by the Los Angeles Galaxy in a victory over DC United. That Galaxy team tallied four goals between the 35th and 44th minutes.
- LA conceded three goals on set piece opportunities.
- Homegrown academy product Jose Villarreal made his MLS debut coming on in the closing minutes of stoppage time. Villarreal had only been deemed eligible to play on Saturday.
- Designated players scored seven of the game's eight goals with Beckham and Robbie Keane each scoring two goals apiece while Landon Donovan added one. Meanwhile, on the Timbers side, Kris Boyd scored his a brace of his own.
- With the win, LA has now won their last two matches.