1970 Mustang Mach 1 SPI Dark red someday

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Looks great!!
Curious, when taking them down that far, on reassembly do you have pre cut gauge bars/blocks, fixtures to insure correct locations of the sub frame sections? I've replace wheel houses, floors, quarters and such but never had one down that far.

John
 
LITJOHN said:
Looks great!!
Curious, when taking them down that far, on reassembly do you have pre cut gauge bars/blocks, fixtures to insure correct locations of the sub frame sections? I've replace wheel houses, floors, quarters and such but never had one down that far.

John
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Brian builds it on a jig
 
Beautiful! I love to see gaps and panels all blocked in like that.

How will you insure that all the gaps and panel-to-panel alignments will stay just like it is once the car is assembled and sitting on it's wheels?
 
Rusty just fantastic work and as a shade tree guy it's over whelming the quality of work and the sheer amount of work required.
But I have to ask when do you just get a new body?

You can buy a complete reproduction 1970 fastback body for around $19K?
1970 Repo Body

Maybe the car is so valuable that keeping any amount of the original sheet metal is worth saving?
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clubairth said:
Rusty just fantastic work and as a shade tree guy it's over whelming the quality of work and the sheer amount of work required.
But I have to ask when do you just get a new body?

You can buy a complete reproduction 1970 fastback body for around $19K?
1970 Repo Body

Maybe the car is so valuable that keeping any amount of the original sheet metal is worth saving?
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There's a thread somewhere where Rusty uses a new body. You'd be surprised how much cutting and welding that took to make "right".
 
clubairth said:
Rusty just fantastic work and as a shade tree guy it's over whelming the quality of work and the sheer amount of work required.
But I have to ask when do you just get a new body?

You can buy a complete reproduction 1970 fastback body for around $19K?
1970 Repo Body

Maybe the car is so valuable that keeping any amount of the original sheet metal is worth saving?
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Yes you can but you don't get a Ford Vin and in most states it's not legal to cut out the vin and transfer to a new body. So now you have a kit car. The sheet metal doesn't line up so you have a lot of labor to get good gaps. The body we worked on the rear valance was tack welded on and bare metal under it. You also have to buy every part to build a Mustang. I would rather have one built on our jig with some original Ford pieces and vin.
 
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