restoring a 1965 Mustang
Time to get the subframe connectors installed! I started by mocking them up with clamps again to make sure that everything lined up the way I expected. While checking the dry-fit I found that the rearmost flange wasn’t fully flush with the torque box on either side of the car. To improve the fit of […]
The first order of business was getting the outer flanges of the wheelhouses to better conform to the shape of the corresponding flanges on the quarter panels. I had split the driver side outer wheelhouse a while back, so I was able to use reversed clamps to force the outer flange of the wheelhouse out […]
After getting the old quarter panels and wheel houses removed the first order of business was getting the new wheel houses to fit properly. I was able to get the wheel houses up and into the car without too much trouble, but despite being produced by the same manufacturer that made the new trunk floor […]
The doors came in from CJ Pony Parts in a matter of days, largely unscathed by their cross-country excursion. The first order of business before hanging the new doors was to clean up the backing plates that sit on the interior side of the car’s door jams. Never painted, they were looking a little worse […]
With the frame rails prepared and the alignment with the quarter panels looking good I slid the trunk floor into place one more time to mark out the layout of the frame rails onto the bottom of the trunk with a Sharpie. I wasn’t particularly worried about exactly matching the weld layout of the original […]
While testing the fit of the new trunk floor it became apparent that the assembly was sitting about half an inch too far towards the rear of the car. The limiting factor in the forward movement was the interaction between the piece under the rear of the trunk and the end of the frame rails […]
The complete trunk that I ordered also came with a new rear shock mount bracket that runs underneath the front of the trunk just behind the rear seats. Originally I had not planned on replacing the bracket as the current one was in pretty good shape, if covered in a ton of sand that had […]
With the tail panel out I figured it was time to slide the new trunk floor in and see how it fit. A significant piece of the car getting put back in place, if only to check fitment. Neat! Except that there was no way it was going to “slide in” because the forward most […]