[TPR] Mach I update

[STEVEN L HAWKINS]

Sorry to hear about the rust but, you will find tons of parts for the cars.

> On November 25, 2017 at 5:36 PM Asa Jay Laughton via TPR <tpr at teampanteraracing.com> wrote:
>
>
> Today saw both joy, and depression.
>
> Sam and I picked up a rudimentary car rotisserie from a long-time
> Mustang friend. He's restored several early Mustangs, all pre-69. He
> currently has four in his garage and they look as if they just came off
> the showroom floor, they are immaculate.
>
> Unfortunately, this rotisserie is made for the early cars, which are a
> little narrower than the 1971, 2 and 3. I'll have to mod the front
> frame attachment by widening it about three inches. I might also mode
> the whole thing to be easier to work with. He picked up a new one a few
> years ago that is the cat's meow, wish I could have borrowed -that- one
> but it's on a 1967 Shelby GT350 (or was it 500, I forget), so it's not
> available.
>
> Sam helped some today to get the front bumper off, the rear bumper off,
> and the rear valence. After that he helped hand me tools under the car
> as I disconnected everything on the transmission (except for the coolant
> lines, need fare-nut wrenches and didn't have them), the drive-shaft,
> left header and left exhaust system.
>
> Next time I need to bring something to drain the gas tank into (it feel
> like it has about 10 gallons), then I can pull the tank. I need to
> bring a good board or a transmission jack to get the trans out. There
> is still a lot of little stuff to pull in addition to all the front
> suspension. I keep shooting bolts with PB Blaster until the day I
> decide to tackle them.
>
> So... the depressing part...
> The more I take apart, the more rust I find. The front floor pan was
> replaced at some time in the past with a straight piece of sheet metal
> (not properly stamped or shaped). It's still solid but looks weird.
> The passenger side floor pan at the front is rusting through in some
> places, not a lot but it's gotta go. The driver's side rear floor pan
> is rusted through just ahead of the rear seat. It too needs to go and
> get replaced.
>
> When we took the front bumper off, the driver's side attach pretty much
> came off with it. The rust was so thick and popped off easily with a
> fingernail. I'm not sure how I'll get that fixed, but I'm certainly in
> for some metal work.
>
> The more I get into this, the more I can see this car will probably
> never be "restored" like most folks like to restore cars. There are a
> lot of places around the car that have been hammered, beat up, and in
> general, used abused, rode hard and put away wet. It's going to be
> quite the job just to get the unibody straightened away with new metal,
> cleaned up and prepped, without worrying about thinks like carpet.
>
> Costs are going up.
>
> Asa Jay
>
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