MUSTANG / T-BIRD

It's been a while sense the last post so I will up date progress on the Mustang and Thunderbird.

 In May I loaded up the Mustang and towed it to Hackbeery Auto Body, a shop that opened this year that's just 5 miles from the house.

 To follow the body and paint work progress go to hackbeeryautobody.com and click on blog. Joe's wife is taking grate pictures and posting them on there blog.

 The first thing that was found is the car had 3 different size tires on that made it set uneven so I brought over a couple of wheels and Joe (the owner) bought a used tire to level the car.

 The car was sand blasted in the areas the still showed rust spots and additional welding was required in a few spots.

 The deck lid and right back fender were dinged out with hammer and dolly, body filler then blocked sanded.

 The top and the passenger door received the same treatment with special attention paid to the gaps and fit at the door and deck lid.

 The 65 T-Bird was painted gold over the original color Chantilly Beige and the paint job is very poor along with a lot of bondo used.

 Instead of just sanding to apply new paint I decided to strip the car down to bare metal, do the proper body work then paint.

 Last week I loaded the T-Bird 390 engine in to the 74 and took it to Sure-way a local machine shop
in Kingman for a complete rebuild and bought a Edelbrock Performer Manifold,Camshaft, lifters, timing chain and gears for an up grade.

   

The parts that can be taken off are removed then striped. 

 This is the hood you can see that there are 4 or 5 layers of paint to be striped off so this will take a while to get the rest of the body done.