Army Vet Builds His 1965 Ford Mustang Fastback Dream Car as a Celebration of Life - Mustang 360
That’s easy to say when the lemon is a speeding ticket, an unexpected bill, or some other life annoyance. Mustang world, meet Daniel McConnell. Not one to let it stop him, Daniel kept his eye on the future and entered graduate school, graduating with a Medical Doctorate in 2011, and then bought this 1965 fastback as a combined graduation and “alive day” gift on April 28, 2011 (the... Daniel said, “That next year, from April 2011 to April 2012, I did my intern year of medicine and also rebuilt this car from the ground up. ”. Not only was he learning in the highly stressful and technical medical field, he was also learning a few... Daniel had worked on cars his whole life and had built an early fastback, turning it from a rusty “field car” into a running car, but then had to sell it in 1998 because his commander threatened to tow it off base. He always wanted to build another Mustang, but this latest project would test his persistence and we applaud the work ethic and stick-to-it attitude he has, since the car turned out fantastic. The roof was caved in when he got the car and it needed a lot of sheetmetal work all over, but Daniel had never welded or held a body hammer. Source: www.mustangandfords.com
