The Project

August 2006

Bowen Scarff Show

July 2006

Bellevue Show

Fugate Ford

May 2006

I CAN DRIVE IT NOW!!!

April 2006

Hood and fenders finally on!

Just after my first test drive!

March 2006 (Front and Rear Glass Installed)

(Note: red seats will be recovered in black.)

August 2005 (Post Painting)

At the Pierce County Mustang Club show (in route to my home)

Got the car home, put the rear wheels on.

August 2005 (MAJOR Milestone - PAINTING!!)

Practicing on the valances and rock guard. Turned out good...so now to the car!

Taping off for the door jambs. Looks like the Partridge Family bus!

Got the jambs painted. I am using a single stage enamel for this.

Underside of the trunk lid and hood also with single stage enamel.

Installed quarter extensions with stand-offs. Makes painting them much easier!! Also masking the jambs.

After laying down white primer and then white basecoat, I measured out and masked off the stripes.

Then I seal coated with black primer.

Then I put on the color and then the clear.

June/July 2005

I don't have a lot of pictures of the un-glamorous fine tuning of the bodywork!

May 2005 (Milestone!)

Fired the engine up!

The engine fired up on the very first attempt--just as soon as the fuel hit the combustion chambers!
And it idled along just as if it was already warmed up--the engine hadn't been run in over 5 years!! Pretty good for static timing, too!

Strange Nodular case for the rear-end that I am building. A Detroit TrueTrac will be going in here.

April 2005

Here is my finished alternator/pulley tensioner bracket. Its a work of art!

Accessories are installed and the belt setup works great!

March 2005

Zirgo 16" electric fan. I wanted to mount it dead center, but it doesn't quite clear the water pump pulley.

February 2005

I didn't like any of the available accessory bracket options out there (or the prices!) so I decided to fabricate my own.
(Yes, the wood is temporary to line things up!)