restoring a 1965 Mustang
Much like the passenger side the adventure started with cleaning up and painting any exposed bare metal that would no longer be accessible. Took a similar pass at the quarter panel itself, scuffing, cleaning, and painting over any bare metal that wouldn’t serve as the exterior face around a plug weld. I test fit the […]
With the tail panel firmly attached it was finally time to start final preparations for welding in the quarter panels, starting with the passenger side. Pulling the quarter panel off for (hopefully) the last time, I sprayed paint over all the bare metal that would be nearly impossible to access with the quarter panel on, […]
With the new doors in place to serve as reference for the body lines I started in on removing the quarter panels and what remained of the wheel houses, starting with the driver’s side. First I took a Sharpie and marked all of the visible spot welds that I would need to drill out along […]