1966 Ford Mustang Convertible BTECH Restoration
‘Baby Blue to Bridgerland Red’: Donated ‘66 Mustang gets 'new chance' after BTECH restoration.
Instructors, students and officials at Bridgerland Technical College unveiled the finished restoration of a 1966 Ford Mustang convertible six years — and more than 1,500 hours of labor — in the making.
“Baby Blue” was not just Kristine Dobson’s first car, it was her first love. When she was 20, she was looking for a car and her then-boyfriend found it in a junkyard.
“He said, ‘We can restore this car,’” Dobson recalled. “‘This can have a good life.’”
He was right. It was running within months, and Dobson drove the Mustang to her teaching job every day for years.
But almost 40 years later, Dobson’s mother died, and 2013 became her “year of letting go.” As Baby Blue hadn’t left the garage much in recent years, Dobson decided to donate the car to a cause she’d loved for years: furthering education through technical programs.
(photo credit: Kat Webb - The Herald Journal)
