Despite looking like swiss cheese, this is one of the drip pans on my car. On a mustang this pan sits under the quarter panel and deck filler panel seam. I guess that ford was worried about the seam leaking and the pan was supposed to catch any water and channel it away from the trunk. Based on […]
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I started removing the under coating and 44 years of crud from the underside of the trunk area. I found a few small areas of rust, and a muffler bracket that someone had tried to weld to side of the trunk, but really managed to burn holes through. as you can see from the photos below the four areas of […]
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If you have been following along, you may remember (Unless your memory is like mine and you have CRS, “Can’t Remember Sh!t” ) I repaired this wheel well back in August 2012. The good news is I’m now replacing the whole outer portion with new metal. But first I wanted to clean out the rocker panels, since I have good […]
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On the convertible body there is a deck filler panel that fits between the trunk and the area where the convertible top is stowed. Until early this year this part was not available. I was glad to see that Dynacorn has released this part. So I ordered it right away. Once it arrived I double checked its fit before removing […]
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If you recall in the last post, I showed a picture of the lower door jamb and the rust hole. Today we fix that. The sequence of pictures below show the steps. First I cut out the rusted area, you can see that there are two panels sandwiched together, so I cut them out at different places, as shown in […]
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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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The Passenger frame rail was in much better shape than that drivers side, If you recall I completely replaced the drivers side frame rail. This side only required a new section part to just replace the really bad area. The front most part of the frame has damage from battery acid dripping on it, and from someone drilling holes to access the bumper brace bolts. I started […]
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