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Once a Mustang guy, consistently a Mustang guy.
Since the 1980s, Brad Cobb has had eight Ford Mustangs in his family.
One of them — a 1968 Coupe — afresh accustomed at his Brownstown home for the aboriginal time in 24 years.
Growing up in Freetown, it was Cobb’s aboriginal car. Aback he awash it in 1993, he didn’t anticipate he would anytime see it again.
In 2013, he managed to clue it down, but the man in Dupont who endemic it wouldn’t budge on the price, so Cobb let it go.
Submitted photo/ Brad Cobb sits on the advanced of a 1968 Ford Mustang Coupe that his ancestor bought for him in 1987. It was Cobb's aboriginal car.
Submitted photo/ Brad Cobb hopes to get his aboriginal car, a 1968 Ford Mustang Coupe, attractive as acceptable as it did in the summer of 1990.
Submitted photo/ Brad Cobb hopes to get his aboriginal car, a 1968 Ford Mustang Coupe, attractive as acceptable as it did in the abatement of 1988.
Submitted photo/ Brad Cobb hopes to get his aboriginal car, a 1968 Ford Mustang Coupe, attractive as acceptable as it did in the abatement of 1988.
Submitted photo/ Brad Cobb, right, and his friend, Doug Roberson, angle abutting to their 1968 Ford Mustangs in 1988 at Rucker's Grocery Store in Spraytown.
Submitted photo/ In this photo from the summer of 1989 are Brad Cobb's two cars, a 1967 Ford Mustang convertible, left, and a 1968 Ford Mustang Coupe.
Submitted photo/ Brad Cobb stands with his 1968 Ford Mustang Coupe in the advanced backyard of his home in the summer of 1988.
Photo by Paul Jewett/ Brad Cobb stands abutting to his 1968 Ford Mustang Coupe for his chief pictures in 1989.
Zach Spicer, The Tribune/ The Mustang logo is still on the commuter aperture of Brad Cobb's aboriginal car, a 1968 Ford Mustang Coupe.
Zach Spicer, The Tribune/ Brad Cobb of Brownstown afresh was reunited with his aboriginal car, a 1968 Ford Mustang Coupe, aback he begin it online and purchased it to restore.
Zach Spicer, The Tribune/ Brad Cobb of Brownstown will accept to install an agent in his aboriginal car, a 1968 Ford Mustang Coupe, that he afresh purchased afterwards award it online.
Zach Spicer, The Tribune/ Brad Cobb of Brownstown affairs to restore his aboriginal car, a 1968 Ford Mustang Coupe, afterwards afresh award it online.
Zach Spicer, The Tribune/ The autogenous of the 1968 Ford Mustang Coupe needs a lot of work.
Zach Spicer, The Tribune/ Brad Cobb of Brownstown affairs to restore his aboriginal car, a 1968 Ford Mustang Coupe, afterwards afresh award it online.
Zach Spicer, The Tribune/ Brad Cobb of Brownstown affairs to restore his aboriginal car, a 1968 Ford Mustang Coupe, afterwards afresh award it online.
Zach Spicer, The Tribune/ Brad Cobb of Brownstown afresh begin his aboriginal car, a 1968 Ford Mustang Coupe, online and purchased it to restore. He had awash the car in 1993. He additionally is abating a 1965 Ford Mustang Fastback, apparent abaft him.
Zach Spicer, The Tribune/ Brad Cobb of Brownstown afresh begin his aboriginal car, a 1968 Ford Mustang Coupe, online and purchased it to restore. He had awash the car in 1993.
Zach Spicer, The Tribune/ Brad Cobb of Brownstown afresh begin his aboriginal car, a 1968 Ford Mustang Coupe, online and purchased it to restore. He had awash the car in 1993.
Zach Spicer, The Tribune/ Brad Cobb of Brownstown afresh begin his aboriginal car, a 1968 Ford Mustang Coupe, online and purchased it to restore. He had awash the car in 1993.
Justice Dyer, one of Cobb’s acceptance at Seymour High School, afresh talked to him about affairs a 1968 Mustang. Cobb afresh started cerebration about award his car again.
On a Friday night, Cobb saw Dyer at Pizza Palace in Seymour, and Dyer told him he didn’t end up affairs the Mustang.
Three canicule later, Cobb woke up in the morning and absitively to attending up 1968 Mustangs on Craigslist.
When he glanced at the additional listing, he couldn’t accept what he saw — his dejected Coupe.
“I sat up in bed and I’m like, ‘Mary, it’s my car,’” Cobb said of administration the account with his wife. “She’s like, ‘What are you talking about?’ I’m like, ‘My dejected car, it’s on Craigslist,’ and she goes, ‘Nuh-uh.’
“I said, ‘It’s alone $1,400,’ and she goes, ‘Well, you apparently care to get it,’” he said. “She knew because I’ve talked about it for three or four years that I let it go, and I aloof kicked myself and kicked myself over and over for absolution it go, and she knew appropriate away, she’s like, ‘He’s activity to get it, and it needs to happen.’”
The stripes beyond the top and a baby cavity on the commuter aperture accepted it was his car.
“I’m like, ‘That’s my car because that’s my base that biconcave that door,’” he said. “I bethink the guy, we were messing around, and he pushed me into my car, and I biconcave the door.”
Cobb beatific a argument bulletin to the agent in Indianapolis and told him he could appear up that weekend, but the man said addition being was attractive at it that Saturday.
They afresh agreed to accommodated a brace of canicule afore at the accumulator assemblage on the south ancillary of Indianapolis, area the Mustang had been stored for bristles months.
The man had bought the Coupe with hopes of he and his son acclimation it up, but they never begin time to alpha on it. He absitively to advertise it aback the amount of the accumulator assemblage became too much.
“As anon as I saw it … it aloof brought aback a flood of memories,” Cobb said.
The car had a collapsed tire, didn’t accept a motor, a manual or a gas catchbasin and was missing aperture panels. Cobb offered $400 to authority the car and told the man it was his aboriginal car and showed him a account of it.
“He’s like, ‘Oh yeah? I would accept captivated it for annihilation because you don’t get to buy your aboriginal car actual often,’” Cobb said.
They afresh talked about how attenuate the car is. Cobb said from January to April 1968, Ford answer the Mustang by advancing up with a appropriate blush anniversary month. In April, it was Eastertime coral, which is a adumbration of pink.
Cobb knew the car had been that blush afore it was corrective blue.
“They alone fabricated about 10 of these a ages unless you appropriate ordered them one ages of the year,” he said. “(The promotion) was not alive well. It didn’t go actual long, so that’s why it’s affectionate of rare. That’s the affair about Mustangs now, you appetite to get the one of one, you appetite the attenuate build.”
Three weeks ago, Cobb fabricated addition cruise to Indianapolis to booty the Mustang home.
“Honestly, it about feels like I’ve got allotment of the ancestors back,” he said. “That was my car. It was me because I put aggregate into it, and it was aloof special.”
It additionally makes him affecting because he wishes two bodies were actuality to see it. One is his father, Clifford Cobb, who died in 2008, and addition is his adolescence friend, Doug Roberson, who died in 2014.
His dad accomplished him aggregate he knows about alive on cars, and Roberson was a allotment of a accumulation of accompany who had Mustangs.
In his aboriginal teens, Cobb awash one of the beasts he raised, and his ancestor acclimated that money to buy the car from a man in Cortland for $400.
When he aboriginal saw the car, Cobb said he wasn’t afflicted because some of the Eastertime apricot showed through the dejected paint.
“To me, I anticipation it was the ugliest affair in the world,” he said. “It was a little 6-cylinder, automated and was aloof affectionate of awkward for a boyish boy who wants the ability in his aboriginal car.”
Cobb said he abstruse to adulation it and spent a lot of time acclimation it up so he could drive it aback he got his license.
For his 15th birthday, his parents paid for a acrylic job and anatomy work. He additionally spent a summer alive for his uncle so he could buy rims and tires and afterwards had the agent rebuilt by a guy in Kurtz and added new carpet.
“Then I had this appealing nice attractive car,” Cobb said. “It was my aboriginal car. It’s what I collection to academy every day. Everybody capital to go for a ride. I hauled kids aback and alternating from Freetown, mainly my cousins, so to them, that car, it’s a god to them.”
Roberson became accepted active his 1968 Mustang convertible, so Cobb afterwards upgraded his car to a 302 with a three-speed transmission.
“I started accepting a acceptability that my car was fast, and bodies capital to chase me, but he was accepting all of the girls,” Cobb said, smiling. “I’m 17 years old, and I’m like, ‘I appetite the girls benumbed with me.’”
Around that time, Cobb begin a red 1967 Mustang convertible at a junkyard in Vallonia. He spent a lot of time alive on it so he could booty his adherent at the time, who now is his wife, to the inferior brawl in it.
One of his friends, Kyle Raymer, won window tinting at the after-prom and gave it to Cobb as a allowance for his Coupe. Addition friend, Brad Sumpter, corrective gray stripes on the car.
He kept the Coupe until 1993, aback he and Mary got married. He awash it to a friend, Rob Klakamp, but they kept the convertible. Klakamp had the Coupe for a while until he awash it.
Cobb and his wife went on to accept three boys. They bought their oldest son, Noah, a 2001 Mustang GT. Afresh in 2013, aback their average son, Luke, was abreast the age of accepting a car, the Coupe re-entered Brad’s mind.
After contacting Klakamp and authoritative several buzz calls, he tracked it down.
The man in Dupont capital $2,000 for it, but it didn’t accept a motor, a transmission, a gas catchbasin or autogenous and the fenders were off of it.
Even afterwards cogent the man it was activity to be a father-son project, he wouldn’t appear bottomward on the price.
When Luke saw the car, Brad said he wasn’t impressed.
“He’s like, ‘Dad, I don’t appetite to accept to do that affectionate of assignment on a car. I can aloof go buy me something,’” Brad said.
Luke and his parents anguish up agreeable the amount of a 2005 Mustang, and Brad said he was abject about absolution the Coupe get away.
He afresh pulled the 1967 convertible out of his parents’ barn and brought it to his abode to alpha alive on it.
In February 2014, he and Luke absitively to analysis out a 1965 Mustang Fastback that was for bargain in Freetown. It had sat in a acreage for years, and Brad and his accompany had bidding absorption in it for a while.
When he bought the car and aggregate the account with Roberson, he couldn’t accept it.
About a ages and a bisected later, Roberson died of a affection attack. They had aloof reconnected for the aboriginal time in 20 years.
“My Fastback I’m architecture as a accolade to him as a friend,” Brad said.
Once the Fastback is done, he affairs to accord it to Luke. The convertible eventually will go to Noah, and he hopes Jordan will advice him assignment on the Coupe so he can drive it.
Noah, 23, afresh awash his 2001 Mustang afterwards accepting married, while Luke, 18, still has his 2005 Mustang, and Jordan, 15, has yet to get his learner’s permit.
Brad said he’s broken amid befitting the Coupe dejected or activity aback to the aboriginal color.
“If I go aback original, I anticipate it’s a little bit acknowledgment adventure because you’re extenuative a allotment of history,” he said. “There’s not abounding of those out there, and these Mustangs, they are accepting befuddled abroad or they are on Barrett-Jackson (a archetypal and aged car bargain company) for 200 grand.”
When Brad aggregate the adventure and pictures of his Coupe on Facebook, Sumpter, who now lives in Ohio, bidding his excitement.
“I agreement I could alarm him about putting stripes on and painting, and he would be over in a minute,” Brad said.
He said he wishes Roberson could see the car.
“It break my affection that he can’t be actuality because I agreement he would be over the moon that I begin the car,” Brad said.
He estimated it will booty a brace of years to restore the Coupe.
“I’ll apparently accept it on the alley abutting summer active it,” he said. “You’ve got to do that aback you aboriginal get them. You’ve got to drive them and try them out to see what’s wrong.”
One affair appropriate now is not accepting abundant accumulator amplitude for his Mustangs, his barter and his wife’s vehicle.
“She wants a bigger barn to put her car in, but I’ve got addition Mustang now, so I don’t apperceive if that’s activity to work,” Brad said, smiling.
Mustangs accept continued been in Brad’s blood, and it appears that’s not activity to change.
“I did footfall abroad from it for 20 years, and now that it’s back, the ancestors thinks I’m basics because literally, that’s area I spent all of my added time was in the barn alive on my Fastback,” he said. “Now, it will be alive on this dejected one advancing up abutting spring.”
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