The 'Stang will be sitting at my parents house until we have a place of our own that we can park that car. My dad and I pushed
the car into the driveway in front of the garage to make it easier to work on when we do find the time to put into it. I went over to the house on Saturday to pull out the transmission and driveline since a guy wanted to give me $150 for them. I noticed some rust on the underside of the car on the passenger-side rear of the car. We'll need to pull out the interior and weld in some sheet metal to shore it up. Now the mid-section of the car is empty and awaiting a T-5 to fill the gaping hole that now occupies its underside.
While I was at the house and had some extra time to kill, I decide
d to start dismantling the front end of the car so that we could more easily work on the engine compartment. While I was pulling off the front valance and fenders, i noticed multiple metric bolts in the place of the standard bolts that are found on American built cars. The metric bolts were put into place to help hold the ca
r together since the previous owner didn't have standard bolts laying around. The front of the car looks a bit naked now, but its hidden from the gaze of strangers. The frame of the car appears to be in pretty good condition as w
ell, so I won't have to do much work to it to get it ready to put the fenders back on and prep it for paint. I did find some rust on the trunk of the car which will require a little extra attention. Its only a little spot on the bottom left corner of the trunk, but it will need to be cut out and filled. We'll also need to stop the rust from spreading by using some anti-rust product.
The next step in the process is to pull out the engine so that we can sand down the engine bay and prep for paint. We'll use a
metal etching primer and a high heat black paint that will withstand the high temps that the engine will be putting out once that beefy 302 with 289 heads is dropped in. It was the same engine that was completely rebuilt for my first 1964 1/2 Mustang that I had when I was in high school. I took out the engine to put in a different 302 that my dad had in his Ford pick up trunk because I thought it would be a better engine. As it turned out, it was a little slower than the first engine that was in there, but I left it out anyways. Fortunately we still have it in the garage and ready to be used again to burn some rubber off the rear wheels.
the car into the driveway in front of the garage to make it easier to work on when we do find the time to put into it. I went over to the house on Saturday to pull out the transmission and driveline since a guy wanted to give me $150 for them. I noticed some rust on the underside of the car on the passenger-side rear of the car. We'll need to pull out the interior and weld in some sheet metal to shore it up. Now the mid-section of the car is empty and awaiting a T-5 to fill the gaping hole that now occupies its underside.While I was at the house and had some extra time to kill, I decide
d to start dismantling the front end of the car so that we could more easily work on the engine compartment. While I was pulling off the front valance and fenders, i noticed multiple metric bolts in the place of the standard bolts that are found on American built cars. The metric bolts were put into place to help hold the ca
r together since the previous owner didn't have standard bolts laying around. The front of the car looks a bit naked now, but its hidden from the gaze of strangers. The frame of the car appears to be in pretty good condition as w
ell, so I won't have to do much work to it to get it ready to put the fenders back on and prep it for paint. I did find some rust on the trunk of the car which will require a little extra attention. Its only a little spot on the bottom left corner of the trunk, but it will need to be cut out and filled. We'll also need to stop the rust from spreading by using some anti-rust product.The next step in the process is to pull out the engine so that we can sand down the engine bay and prep for paint. We'll use a
metal etching primer and a high heat black paint that will withstand the high temps that the engine will be putting out once that beefy 302 with 289 heads is dropped in. It was the same engine that was completely rebuilt for my first 1964 1/2 Mustang that I had when I was in high school. I took out the engine to put in a different 302 that my dad had in his Ford pick up trunk because I thought it would be a better engine. As it turned out, it was a little slower than the first engine that was in there, but I left it out anyways. Fortunately we still have it in the garage and ready to be used again to burn some rubber off the rear wheels.
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