@doh1304
Great looking car and hauled ass. But there were no floorboards. Completely rusted out.
Seats were bolted to 2x4s and angle clips.
Kinda like riding one of those three-wheeled ATVs, don't put your foot down!

In 74 I was driving around Syracuse, New York and saw "the 1,000,000 Vega" - It had a special plate commemorating its milestone, which somehow hung on thanks to a tenacious piece of rust on what was left of the left quarter panel. I almost laughed, but realized that my 70 Buick was cut in half horizontally - top half medium blue, bottom half unpainted sheet metal patching. Onondaga county used magnesium rather than salt on their roads at wintertime. We didn't laugh at people who bought a new car every year, we laughed at people who bought rustproofing.

@exindy
on my '90 T-Bird that turned out to be the starter solenoid which was worn out just enough to "bleed" against the housing.
Just stumbled across the issue after days of ripping wiring apart.
Whew!

A couple of years ago in one of my anti-boredom projects I updated the audio system in my '95 Mustang convertible. Here are a few paragraphs from the writeup of what I encountered.

I bought the car with the Mach460 audio system in Feb 1995. It was quite an audio system at that time but then we need to bear in mind that it was 1994 technology. The Mach460 consisted of a single DIN head unit that contained the standard AM/FM radio of that time, a cassette player and the audio control adjustments. Underneath the head unit was a single DIN CD player. There were 3 amplifiers in the system, a stereo amp and 2 mono amps. The stereo amp drove 4 tweeters, one mono drove 2 midrange speakers, and the third drove 2 woofers. The tweeter amp was located out of sight under the CD player and the other 2 amps were located under/behind the backseat.

There were 8 speakers in the system. 2 tweeters were located in each front corner of the door windows and 2 tweeters were located in the top of an acoustical box on the side panels of the backseats. 2 midrange speakers were located in the lower front part of each door and there were 2 woofer speakers located in the lower part of the side panel backseat acoustical box. The head unit functioned as the crossovers and separated the frequencies for the single function speakers.

In the early 2000s the media limitations started to become an issue. I had boxes of vinyls that I could enjoy only on my home system. I also had quite a collection of CDs and of course cassettes. Facing downsizing requirements I decided to convert to digital.

By around 2008 I had finished converting all my audio files to digital. At that point the only system I had which could not handle the digital files was the Mustang. The Mach460 did only CDs and cassettes. Unfortunately it started choking on the cassettes around that time also. So in 2010 I decided to install a new head unit that could do USBs and just use an output wiring harness to fake the amps. It did well but I didn't realize at the time that it wasn't a one-for-one replacement. The Mach460 head unit was a specialized system that handled the speakers by driving the amps separately and the off-the-shelf unit didn't have that ability. Fortunately (or unfortunately as the case might be) the Mustang doesn't put much distance between anyone inside the car and the speakers so it wasn't a major issue. A couple went mute but it wasn't that noticeable. Meh, convertibles aren't known for their acoustics.

All was well for a few years but age started creeping up on the pony. A vampire power drain would run the battery down and according to some forums the culprit was most likely deterioration of the insulation in the wiring. They mentioned the rear powered amps specifically because of their location and suggested the amps be rewired and replaced. Of course that would apply to the speaker wiring also because it was just as old and since the speakers were very old paper technology and if I'd be in there anyway….

As luck would have it, as it usually does when procrastinating, the old 2010 Kenwood just quit making sounds around 2019. Thanks to the virus situation I had lots of time on my hands to do research so hello Crutchfield and more in depth study on the forums. What I found is that the technology had progressed enough so that using an amp to enhance the systems doesn't really gain that much. The internal amps in the head unit will do quite well… especially in a Mustang convertible. Pair that with good equalizer capability and you get a lot of bang for the buck. The other things that are much better these days are the speakers. That old paper thing from the Mach460 just doesn't even come close to doing the job these days.

What all this boils down to is that I decided to replace the head unit with a system that had gobs of power and an awesome equalizer. I would eliminate the amps and drive speakers directly from the head unit. I also decided to replace the 8 single function speakers with 4 2-way speakers and let the crossover in the speaker deal with the frequencies instead of the head unit.

There were prewired harnesses available but they made assumptions that didn't apply to my plans to eliminate the external amps and besides the new speaker configuration would be difficult
to prewire. So I didn’t see much available other than "it's technical so contact your local professional". BTW, it's not rocket science. Everything is pretty standardized these day so I just checked the head unit docs (RTFI) and went with the colors.

During the installation I removed all the Mach460 components and ran wires from the head unit to the new speakers. There were many videos available online that cover removing panels, popping covers, etc. Probably half of them are accurate. I just ignored the original wires. They wouldn't be
connected to anything anyway.

This new system blew the doors off the Mach460. Lots more power, much better audio.

Sold the car last year. There's probably some grammatical issues so please bear with me.

@enhydra lutris
And finished product looked really awesome.
Truckla.... available nowhere.
Ha ha ha.
Thanks El.

an electric pick-em-up and even, specifically, a Tesla pick up truck. Witness Truckla.

This is one of two vids, I don't know if there are two such trucks or two vids of this one.

be well and have a good one