I ATE TOO MUCH FOOD!

I am lucky to have a wife that cooks so well, we ate like Kings and queens on christmas. We had ham, cheesy taters,watergate salad,and even pumpkin pie, the only thing that would have made it better is to have been with all of my family. Santa treated us all really good, but kaleb did the best. He got a new yamaha pw50 and a nintendo ds with a bunch of games to go with it. Hope you all had a great time as well.

On to the car....I still havent gotten to weld anything up as I am in the process of fitting the floor to firewall extensions in properly, this has been tougher than I thought because the aftermarket pieces are not exaclty the same. That being said you cant cut on the same line and expect it to fit, found out the hard way! No biggey though, I just got out the 20 pound sledge and made it fit [Joke]. So, I should have them fitted by thursday and then I will have my local frame guy come and help me get the front end squared so I can weld the frame extensions in and weld the torque box back in also. Gotta go, will get pics up by weekend.

Ho Ho Ho...

I cant believe that christmas is almost here! This year has been a good one and I have many things to be thankfull for. I want to tell all my family how much I love them and to keep track of the true meaning of christmas!

Ok, so I have been working hard on the stang, I ended up taking the floor out and basically everything back out and wirebrushing and grinding every nook and crany to get all the rust cleaned up and the metal nice and shiny to weld. Anyone who has welded auto steel knows that it isnt easy, and that any imperfections will affect the welds. Once I cleaned up all the surfaces I put on this stuff called weld thru primer, it is made by 3m and is grey in color. It is supposed to create a corrosion proof surface.

You can see in that pic the frame rail extensions, they came bare metal so I took the time today to prime them and paint them so they dont rust up, I also undercoated all inside the frame rails and "A" pillars, and around the top of the roof were it is hard to get paint and primer into, no stone left un turned!!! Since christmas is coming I had to get Kalebs big present ready so Mike and I tested it out. It is a Yamaha PW50, talk about a blast this little things got some pep.



Here are some more pictures for Uncle Davey to stew on over christmas...ho ho ho








Merry Christmas Everyone! I will be back at it on Monday.

Fit to Weld.

So yesterday and today I worked on getting panels screwed into place and removing the rear inner fender aprons. When I got the old ones out and cleaned everything up I went and grabbed the new panels and found out that they are cheaply made. As a matter of fact I even wondered for a moment if they went to this car, lol. Anyways after a conversation with my pal Russell at Mustang Mania he dropped some new and improved panels in the mail and the should be in next week. The bad thing about that panel is that the hood hinges bolt to it and they have a tendencey to crack out around the nutserts and fall out. When I get the new panels in I will look them over and see If I need to reenforce them some more or if they will be good enough stock.

I have most all of the holes punched to start spotwelding the panels in and I will start on that hopefully tommorrow. Here are some new pictures that I took to tide all of my fans over for awhile. Hee Hee.

Mock Up Day

Today I got the driverside outer cowl put in and the fenders and doors mocked up. I everything had presentable gaps and is ok to go ahead and weld into place. I also put in the seat risers and the passenger frame rail extension. On monday I will put the inner fender aprons in and maybe get to welding a little. I still have the drivers side frame extension to do also and the floor to firewall extensions. After that basically all that is left is the radiator support and the two rear quarter panels, and of course a shit load of welding!!! Super tired, I will put up some pics monday night...Later.

GITTER DONE!

This first pic is of my buddy Mike working on a customers 70 Chevelle SS 396 convertible...Ya, it is nice! I did a lot of hammer and dolly work today, the door post on the passenger side was actually bent in on the bottom pretty bad so we did some fancy work to get it straight again. The upper and lower cowl is in now and the passenger side panel. As you can see I have a lot of different tools laying on the floor, I keep the 15 pound sledge around just incase Dave calls and tells me to put the windshield in again.....Ha Ha, just jokin uncle Dave! Hitting it hard tommorrow am. Later, Andy

Hammer Time!

Today rocked, I opened a can on the ole mustang and got a bunch done. I got the floor in and removed the dash, and also the upper and lower cowl panels. I am glad I did because their was some rust hiding under it. It is amazing how much rust you find when you really get into a car. The driveshaft tunnel was pretty beat up towards the front probably from putting motors in and out so I did some hammer and dolly work on it and got it back to original condition. They hit it so hard that it actually ripped the metal in a couple places so I welded that back up and ground it true.

I ended up getting the firewall prepped and ready for tommorrow when I will mock up the upper and lower cowl panels and the dash structure. Pictures to follow!

Grind...Cut...Weld...Hammer....repeat.

Well what can I say, its been awhile since I have updated this blog! I am sure you guys are just chomping at the bit to see what I have been up to. I have been busy taking out the old floor and prepping it for the new one to go in. This requires a lot of grinding with a air cutoff tool and a grinding disk, the object is to grind out the weld and leave a backing on the inner panel to weld to. Also what I did was take a scribe and mark around the old panels that way when I put the new ones in I have a reference line. Some people use spot weld cutters but they don't work well, especially with the kind of hit and miss spot welding they did in the 60's. Once I removed the floor I have to start thinking about the floor to firewall extensions and the cowl side panels, and also the frame extensions because they are all tied together. I put the floor in temporarily but ended up removing it again for ease of dash and side cowl replacement. The frame extension on the drivers side had a lot of rust under it into the frame so I have to fabricate a plate to fix that, shouldn't be a big deal because is is basically just a flat piece of steel. There is also damage on the firewall and on the rear floor where the shocks mount on top that I will be fixing soon. The pinch weld on the rocker panels is really smashed up from jacks hitting it and whatever else so I am straightening that out also.