Danos,
I Have a 68 hardtop I am considering the same for. I have both companies’ brochures. In fact I even spoke with a guy from Rod and Custom at the all ford nationals in Carlisle PA last year. The Rod and custom package is cheaper because it comes with a whole front end. Rack and pinion, coil over and disc brakes. It requires some mods to the car. The car they had there was heavily modified. They had removed even removed the inner fender aprons and welded in patch panels. I must say it looked real nice! I took several pictures because I wanted to use it as an example for my car. I can email them to you if you want? The TCP package is definitely the more talked about of the two. I am not sure if it is better, or just gets more advertisements because of the movie “Gone In Sixty Seconds” or what.
One this is for sure I am looking for the same thing you are, a classic Mustang with good daily driver handling. I don’t car if I have to go restomod. I have already wasted the money on newly rebuilt steering components. I replaced it all. I did this based talking with people and on what I had read from some of the other people claming that the car would handle like new after I did this. It was my first experience with this so I did it. Well my car now handles like a new 1968 mustang, and guess what it still has all the same problems the original car suffered from. Poor responsiveness and bump steer. I am not discrediting the advice I was given; the rebuild did deliver some better performance. I guess I just want more. What good is this car as a daily driver if I can only drive it in a straight line? For some reason I have had a hard time finding people who have done this mod. Let alone any other information about its success rate. I would like the answers to question like … Does this affect the turning radius? So I guess after all this I cannot offer a ton of help. If anyone out there had done this please let us know about it. I am very weary of spending all that cash for either setup and finding out a better alternative.
I have checked out site like
www.g-machines.com and
http://www.pro-touring.com/.
All they have is a few pictures of cameros with rack and pinion, (there is only one mustang) and a bunch of pictures. That doesn’t really help me. Wouldn’t it be great if one of the mustang magazines or hot rod TV would do a write-up on this topic? Something that compared the different packages cost, quality, and road tested them.
That’s just my take on things.