We are about done with all the body work.  We are adding a spoiler and modifying the rear tail lights to look more like the Shelby's did,  We have done a lot of hand sanding.  We also gave the wheel openings a little more flare and we are going with a seamless look where we can.

The Mustang project is finally moving along again.  We had to pull apart the rear part of the car in order to fix some kinks in the frame.  The car must have been in a rear end collision at some point.  We also had to lower the passenger side floor pans 2 inches.  The car now sits level on the floor.  Uni body design is not easy to work with...

Engine Rebuild Begins

We have been debating for months on what to do with our 289 engine we bought from a craigslist seller. We were not even sure the engine was even worth rebuilding. We had been advised to just buy a crate motor. The engine we have was a 1966 A code 4bl carb. We opened it up with the help of a friend from the coffee shop (Ed). He is a retired GM mechanic with many years of engine experience behind him. When we pulled it apart we were surprised to find that the engine was very clean a probably recently rebuilt. We are sending it off to the machine shop to be cleaned up and possibly re-bored. We should be able to save most of the parts. Updates to follow.

Off to the body shop

We said good bye to the stang today. It was flat bedded to our friend Don's body shop in Westport, MA. We finished as much as we could and now it was time for the pros to finish the final body work and paint. It will be painted black with gold gt stripes. The guys at the shop will be removing the engine and the 6cyl will be replaced with a 289 V8 engine and C4 tranny, with an 8inch rear end. We will keep the progress posted as we go along.

Rear door window refurbishing

We decided to refurbished the rear windows. The replacement parts were very inexpensive and it appeared to be an easy job. Thank god Gramp was around that week as we were not having much luck getting the windows out. Once Gramp figured it out it went pretty quickly. We POR 15 as much as we could and put the new rollers on the tracks and it now works as good as new. Thanks Gramp we really appreciated the help.

Quater Panel replacement

Now that the trunk pan is in we moved on to the inner and outer wheel wells before we put on the quarter panels and tail panel. We had to get all the panels in and clamped before we did the final welding. It took about a month but it is done.

Cowl repair is complete

It was a long hard road to repair the cowl, yet it is done. The cowl is the mustang's biggest problem and the first repair that needs to be done. We started the repair then were sidetracked by the floors. We had to wait for a heater box to come in from the parts supplier. We needed the box to line up the induction hole. The cowl was POR 15 and then sprayed black before the top piece was welded in place. There was lots of patches and grinding but we saved 400 on parts by restoring what we could.