April 29- John’s Inspection, Part II
April 20, 21- John’s Inspection, Part I
Finally! We’ve finished up the first full inspection of John’s convertible. We took a ton of photos and partially disassembled the Mustang–to check the brakes, undercarriage, etc. We’re also building the project sheet as we take these photos and inspect the Mustang–a very detailed document which will outline what parts need replacing or restoration and what things need to be done to get this Mustang done the way John wants it.
2010_05_10 Cathy: Rear Frame Rail Welding
April 21- Dan’s Disassembly, Parts Continued
In addition to the rest of Dan’s parts inspection, we’ve been doing a little painting of some of his parts, since we prefer large patches of metal to paint at any one time to minimize overall prep-time, along with other people’s parts, such as Dave’s or Cathy’s. There are also some photos in here of Dan’s floorpans, the ones that will be going in in place of his originals, which have heavy Alabama rust and should be replaced, since we’re aiming for a high-quality RestoMod.
April 20- Dan’s Disassembly, Parts
Here’s a big inspection of all the parts we’ve taken off of Dan’s Fastback, and we’re doing a thorough photographing and labelling of everything before we put it away for storage while we finish up the last of the metalwork and do the blasting of the body. After we finish the body-work, we’ll go back through all the components we’ve taken off, and will either restore them or replace them or upgrade them. We know Dan wants to do a lot of comfort and performance upgrades, so we’ll be consulting him as we go. There’s another part to this inspection that’s coming soon–so keep an eye out!
April 28- Cathy’s Parts Overview
Here’s just a few snippets of some of Cathy’s parts. We’re wrapping up some of the last interior parts left to be put away into storage, as seen–door panels and things. In addition, we’ve done some priming over the new frame rails we just received in for Cathy.
April 27- Cathy’s Mustang up on the Jig
In these photos, we just finished installing Cathy’s Mustang up onto our custom-built jig, which we will use to prevent frame warping or mis-alignment while we remove and replace parts of the body and frame. This step is extremely important, because once a frame is warped or off true, a Mustang is virtually irreparable.
We’re sand-blasting the metal components from Dave’s under-dash, especially his heater-A/C box. Then, we laid out all the parts in our paint booth, and will be priming them as soon as we get some of Cathy’s parts together in order to work with larger batches of parts.
April 16- MachLene’s Speaker Wiring Repairs
Here, we have the dash removed and the wiring pulled, so we re-did the wiring to the speakers in the back. The wiring as it was had been pinched in a few places and was poorly installed, so we laid it down and ran it in a much better way to prevent future malfunctions, so MachLene will be able to rock out to some great music!
April 19- Dan’s Disassembly in the Shop
We’ve got Dan’s Fastback in our shop in Florida finally, and are getting it up on jackstands and disassembled from its partially-assembly that it had to get brought down here. From there we’ll pick up where Randy left off.
