Austin gives the steering box a fresh coat of paint

Bits and pieces: Rebuilt and detailed

April 12, 2020

Lots of stuff going on behind the scenes. While waiting to get the body into paint we jump over to other systems for refurbishing. Many…

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Headlight buckets repaired and primed

Rinse, repeat…

March 20, 2020

Sand, bodywork, prime, sand some more. That’s what prepping for a beautiful paint job is all about. Take these zinc die-cast headlight buckets, for example.They’re…

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Hood is bodyworked

A wrinkled bonnet

March 14, 2020

Huh? Across the pond they a car hood is called a bonnet. Okay. Either way, this ol’ girl has done a lot of bumpin’ and…

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Stripping paint from textured door interior

Slow and steady…

March 13, 2020

Slow but steady progress as we bring the ’66 Mustang closer to paint. Here, the passenger door gets primed with surfacer so it can be…

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TIG welding patch

Rust repair

February 21, 2020

Work continues on the junkyard donor door someone installed along the way. We were prepping it for body and paint and noticed a tiny bubble…

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Creating a place for a courtesy light

Door mods

February 14, 2020

After one of the collisions that took out the passenger side quarter panel, the ’66 Mustang got another door from a donor car. It did…

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Finessing new rear quarter panel

Bodywork progresses

January 12, 2020

The (what feels like) never-ending process of bodywork and prep for paint stage. The biggest thing to slow our progress on the Mustang has been…

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Quarter spot welded at factory seam

Offshore sheet metal…

December 15, 2019

What do you do when the offshore aftermarket sheet metal doesn’t fit like it’s supposed to (and never does)? You cut, weld, and grind it…

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Passenger fender repairs

Bodywork begins

November 24, 2019

We’re at that stage on the ’66 Mustang where you don’t see a lot of dramatic progress. Body and paint can be slow and tedious.…

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