With the front end sorted, I moved back to the rear quarters. If you remember I had started on the trunk area, and then found a lot of rust that had bondo applied over it. No attempt to repair or weld up. I ordered new quarters, and in the mean time moved to the front of the car. No shortage […]
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While I wait for my body panels to arrive, there is still plenty to do on the car. When I was disassembling the car, I found that the trunk lid was attached with nuts that were JB welded to the hinge. Ford had originally used an insert as pictured on the left. This slid down inside the hinge, which is a square […]
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The driver’s side turned out to be a bigger job than the passenger side. At least for the passenger side I had the frame rail and floor pan brace as a guide to fit the torque box. But I’m getting ahead of myself. Lets start with the floor brace… The floor braces don’t come with holes for the e-brake cables, […]
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Back in August I removed the left rear torque box, and part of the frame rail. Finally I have the inner frame rail, and the front frame rail complete, so it’s time to install the rear torque box, and the new frame rail section. I ordered a complete convertible left rear frame section, since I needed the torque box, and […]
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If you’ve been reading along, when I cut out the floor pan I was undecided about repairing or removing the front frame rail. With the inner frame rail repaired, I decided to cut more of the toe board out of the car, to find out how bad the front frame rail is. As you can see in the second photo, the […]
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I started on the drivers side this past weekend. At some point a long time ago, the drivers side was repaired by someone. It looks like they used floorpan patch panels, or cut some out of a junk car. The front and rear of the floor pan had been patched, but the seat area was left alone. They cut some of the metal out, […]
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During disassembly you may recall me talking about how the floor pans were covered in a caulking like under coating. The day has finally come to remove enough of the material to work on the floor pans. My first attempt was with a heat and scraper, you can see the test area in the first picture. This was moving very slowly, and the caulking was […]
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