The 69 Mustang has been at Hackbeery Auto Body for 4 months and the body and paint work is beautiful. Picked it up mid August and started to complete the reassemble.  The color (Granite Silver) shown like it really is in the in these two pictures. The one below is loaded into the car trailer to bring it back to my shop.  Unload at the shop my camera did not show off the paint very good.  The new grill was installed first the parking lights mount on the bumper so will go in when the new bumpers arrive.  Next all the weather striping was installed the two photo's below show the trunk lid being done.  Headliner was next but the dome light had to go in first. The gray material is thermal and noise insulation glued to the top then the headliner was hung in place be the bows, back bow first, the stainless roof molding and gutter had to go in first.  The old wind lace was cut into 1" pieces and used to clip the edges of the headl...

After 138 hours I finally have the T-Bird down to bear metal.  With all the paint off I can see the amount of body damage there is on both sides of the car that was covered up with Bondo and gold paint.  The under side of the hood and trunk is also striped.  Next I was going to repair or replace the vacuum lines that are mostly on the A/C system  You can see from these two pictures that there are a lot of vacuum on this unit including a very complicated vacuum switch that rotates to select the correct vacuum port to be operated (above in the middle). The old system was removed and a new one bought with no vacuum control.  I looked on line and found a company,Classic Auto Air, that makes a A/C system for non A/C Thunderbird's. I called to see if it could be used in a car with existing A/C and they said yes with some modifications, the control panel had to changed out for a heat only T-Bird that I bought on E Bay, a adapter, that they make, mus...

Saturday June 18 we took the 51 to  the Yavapai Classic Cruisers car show at Mile High Middle School in Prescott AZ. We left the house at 5:30 AM as it's a 2 hour trip to Prescott and the show started at 8 AM, all went well except one of the trailer tires had a large blister on the side of it when we arrived at the show. I carry 2 spares in the trailer and changed the tire after I unloaded the car, checked in and had the car set up.  They had over 200 cars show up for the Fathers Day show and a good verity like this willies Gasser and chopped 34.  Chopped and channeled rat rod I think it started out as a Chevy.  1953 Kaiser like Karens Kaiser except this one is stock with a Chevy V8 in it.  Nice stock 46 Hudson coupe.  Model A very nicely done.  This Pierce Arrow Limo was a parts car when this owner bought it and made a hot rod with a Pontiac, automatic trans. and 9" rear end it also has the privacy glass behind the dr...