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</head><body>Sorry to hear about the rust but, you will find tons of parts for the cars.<br><br>> On November 25, 2017 at 5:36 PM Asa Jay Laughton via TPR <tpr@teampanteraracing.com> wrote:<br>> <br>> <br>> Today saw both joy, and depression.<br>> <br>> Sam and I picked up a rudimentary car rotisserie from a long-time <br>> Mustang friend. He's restored several early Mustangs, all pre-69. He <br>> currently has four in his garage and they look as if they just came off <br>> the showroom floor, they are immaculate.<br>> <br>> Unfortunately, this rotisserie is made for the early cars, which are a <br>> little narrower than the 1971, 2 and 3. I'll have to mod the front <br>> frame attachment by widening it about three inches. I might also mode <br>> the whole thing to be easier to work with. He picked up a new one a few <br>> years ago that is the cat's meow, wish I could have borrowed -that- one <br>> but it's on a 1967 Shelby GT350 (or was it 500, I forget), so it's not <br>> available.<br>> <br>> Sam helped some today to get the front bumper off, the rear bumper off, <br>> and the rear valence. After that he helped hand me tools under the car <br>> as I disconnected everything on the transmission (except for the coolant <br>> lines, need fare-nut wrenches and didn't have them), the drive-shaft, <br>> left header and left exhaust system.<br>> <br>> Next time I need to bring something to drain the gas tank into (it feel <br>> like it has about 10 gallons), then I can pull the tank. I need to <br>> bring a good board or a transmission jack to get the trans out. There <br>> is still a lot of little stuff to pull in addition to all the front <br>> suspension. I keep shooting bolts with PB Blaster until the day I <br>> decide to tackle them.<br>> <br>> So... the depressing part...<br>> The more I take apart, the more rust I find. The front floor pan was <br>> replaced at some time in the past with a straight piece of sheet metal <br>> (not properly stamped or shaped). It's still solid but looks weird. <br>> The passenger side floor pan at the front is rusting through in some <br>> places, not a lot but it's gotta go. The driver's side rear floor pan <br>> is rusted through just ahead of the rear seat. It too needs to go and <br>> get replaced.<br>> <br>> When we took the front bumper off, the driver's side attach pretty much <br>> came off with it. The rust was so thick and popped off easily with a <br>> fingernail. I'm not sure how I'll get that fixed, but I'm certainly in <br>> for some metal work.<br>> <br>> The more I get into this, the more I can see this car will probably <br>> never be "restored" like most folks like to restore cars. There are a <br>> lot of places around the car that have been hammered, beat up, and in <br>> general, used abused, rode hard and put away wet. It's going to be <br>> quite the job just to get the unibody straightened away with new metal, <br>> cleaned up and prepped, without worrying about thinks like carpet.<br>> <br>> Costs are going up.<br>> <br>> Asa Jay<br>> <br>> -- <br>> Asa Jay Laughton - W7TSC, MSgt, USAFR, Retired<br>> Spokane County ARES-RACES Net Manager<br>> ******************************<br>> http://w7tsc.org<br>> http://www.teampanteraracing.com<br>> <br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> TPR mailing list<br>> TPR@teampanteraracing.com<br>> http://teampanteraracing.com/mailman/listinfo/tpr_teampanteraracing.com<br></body></html>