Thread: '67 Mustang Convertable build

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Heres' one i am working on now, a '67 badly rusted and due for major work. My involvement is the sheetmetal.
I had the body media blasted and epoxy primed.
I am working on the passeger side right now.

Sorry about the order of the pics. The above set is from bringing the project into the shop and when it is braced, on the rotisserie going to the media blasting.
These are from media blasing to trial fitting new sheetmetal.

Nice project. It doesn't look terribly beat up. We're collecting parts for my Mom's 68 coupe. It's getting a 5.0 fuel injected, and an AOD. Keep at it and take a lot of pics please!

It's looking good. Nice job on the bracing, that should keep her good and straight while you're cuttin' and slicin'....
Is it goin' back to original colors?

No, not original color - some sort of blue i expect, stock otherwise.
Here is todays work, the pics don't come out in the right order. i am ready to clean the torque box for repair - i have to start here because of how the sheetmetal lies. I'll have to repair the torque box, then replace the toeboard befor the floor pan.
The torque box has an odd shape and just tyes stuff together and makes little sense looking in from this angle. I fitted a piece of 16gage and cleco'd it for test fit - the hole for the frame is in it.
i then tacked welded it and slid the frame (inner rocker box) in place for test fit to see if any nasty gaps and get measurements for the toe board.
I then trial fit the toeboard. lots of trimming to get done at this point, i was concerned with the fit around the frame rail.

I cleaned the toeboard opening in the firewall and got things pretty square and trimmed the toeboard a number of time - it even had a formed feature that i had to take out so's it would lie flat on the torque box - it is a rectangular opening, i guess non-convertables don't have as much inner structure as a convertable and the toeboard would fit in them.
Anyway, it is fitted to the hole. I can't weld it as yet, i have to take it all back out and weld the panel beneath it. I'll do that tomorrow when i am nice and fresh, TIG welding on my knees with my head stuck in the bracing and maintaining just the right heat welding clean metal to rusty metal is a job best left for when i am nice and fresh.

The random nature of photos loading on this site is one of the "quaint quirks" or pains in the _ _ _!!! depending how you look at it...

I haven't seen the inside of a torque box since the 80's. Gotta say I haven't missed that view! But, your doing a fine job.

Great project, and a great start!

On the order of photos, once you do the "Insert In Line" you can hit "Preview Post" and check the order and simply highlight and drag the "Attachment" string to the order you want. Yeah, it's an extra step, but you can also put some spaces between the "Attachments", and add descriptive text for any picture, or for each of them if you want.

Another quirk is that the photos you want first or at the top load last, upload last first and so on. This was a field find or lying on the beach? Looks like you'er moving right along thou. Where are you sourcing the body parts from, easy to get? Speaking about the black sheet metal, I can tell you are fabing the others.

Originally Posted by rspears

Great project, and a great start!

On the order of photos, once you do the "Insert In Line" you can hit "Preview Post" and check the order and simply highlight and drag the "Attachment" string to the order you want. Yeah, it's an extra step, but you can also put some spaces between the "Attachments", and add descriptive text for any picture, or for each of them if you want.

Thanks for the tip, i'll give that a try and maybe things will make beter sense.

Pepi, I went to Virginia Classic Mustang for the sheetmetal. I have been eyeballing the fit and it seems good. I had a replacement panel for the battery tray area in front of the shock tower that was from Canada. I worked with that last week and is was the worst piece of junk - just terrible. The materials we are now getting come from taiwan and seem very well made.

Originally Posted by ojh

Thanks for the tip, i'll give that a try and maybe things will make beter sense.

Pepi, I went to Virginia Classic Mustang for the sheetmetal. I have been eyeballing the fit and it seems good. I had a replacement panel for the battery tray area in front of the shock tower that was from Canada. I worked with that last week and is was the worst piece of junk - just terrible. The materials we are now getting come from taiwan and seem very well made.

Kool job..Have done my share of panel replacement in the past..Thats not too bad looking..Believe me,,we have seen worse down here...Cars that have been imported,and the previous owner has bogged up the floor pan,and covered it with black gunge..Interesting comment about your Taiwanese panels..The last time I did a doorskin on a 67 Mustang,,it was the worst fit I had done,,and spent an extra hour or two to make it look right. I think,that some parts are good,,while others are downright shocking..Still,,I enjoy watching a rebuild of this nature..Have fun..

Ok another stang to follow up on , I have a vert 69 Cougar here also in line down the road fairly similar

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This is the third time i have tried doing the organized picture thing with subtitles, the other times have just one into cyberspace.
there is a picture of the torque box repair, welded.
A picture of the toeboard tacked into place, i had to cut a reinforning rib out of it so's it'd lay flat.
There is a picture where i am making the clamps to draw the floor pan down, i used 5/8ths allthread and odd pieces of box tube. It wasn't enough as i had to drill and add some local fasteners at various places.
There is a picture showing the top reveal of the framerail (inner rocker), it is running high twards the front, i stuck a bottlejack (another picture) under it and pushed it into place then tacked the leading lower edge of the framerail. I moved the bottlejack toi the rear and pushed upward from the floor and tacked the rearward lower edge. I then moved the bottlejack back to the middle to push out a slight crown.
The final picture is the framerail tacked in place.

Nice work, some of those old Mustangs sure did get twisted up from all their years on the road, don't they?

I agree! It's gonna look like new when you're done smoothing her wrinkles. And thanks for the updates, we know it can be a hassle but it sure is appreciated!

Ya know... there was another guy around here that was doin' a Mustang, but he hasn't been heard from in awhile.. Oh, and a Cougar too! Bobby was his name. sure do miss ol' Bobby... nice fella... maybe he'll find his way back! rofl.. sorry for the hijack... 8-)