My first car was a 1979 BMW 320i with some 300,000km on it. When it died about 3 or 4 months after I got it, I bought my mustang off of a friend of mine's cousin in high school (winter 1997). The car had about 80,000 miles on it at the time, and the only modifications had been a set of flowmasters and the black and silver stripe paint job. Almost a year later, while sitting inside a friend's house watching TV, his mother informed me that there were flames coming out of the seems of my car's hood. The alternator had shorted out and sparked a fire from the K&N air filter. The wiring and everything not metal under the hood was destroyed, but luckily it didn't get to the interior. After about 4 months I began restoring it, had it painted, etc. At that time I put in a new GT40 crate motor from Ford. Below are some pictures from before the restoration.

Now here's a few pictures taken shortly after I picked it up from the paint shop:

Here is a list of modifications since the restoration:

New paint,rims,tires
Motorsport 320hp aluminum GT40 crate motor
Ported cobra intake
Heads ported (12/98)
1" phenolic spacer
65mm throttle body
75mm mass air
190lph fuel pump
24# injectors
Crane adjustable fuel pressure regulator (6/98)
Accel 300+ ignition and coil
Motorsport shorty headers
Pacesetter 2.5" hpipe
Flowmaster Force II 2.5" catback (I wanted 3 chamber)
Steeda aluminum upper/ lower control arms
Steeda cross brace subframe connectors (9/98)
Pro 5.0 shifter
FMS 3.73 gears
Groundpounder Rear End Girdle (7/98)
Rebuilt stock 8.8" w/ Moser 28 spline axles (8/98)
Forte's Parts Connection adjustable clutch quadrant (7/98)
Ford Motorsport C Springs, New struts (summer/2000)
Trunk mount battery kit (12/2002)
Ford Taurus 3.8 Electric Fan w/Hayden Controller (5/2004)