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I am sorry for your loss Rod. If you need anything, give me shout. After all I am just "down the road".

Fantastic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Loose parts collected yesterday. The Mach 1 was already loaded into an enclosed car trailer when we got to the shop. Guess he didn't want any more things for us to find ;) Shop prepped for arrival. ie. I put my car on wheel dollies and pushed it into the corner the Mustang occupied for a...

Neat stuff Carolina! It would have been neat to watch a car put together like that. Even better would be a time lapse video.

I thought there was a "place" for items like this, I could've swore to it. Heck I printed one off for our 72 project prior to going to the bodyshop. Another disturbing memory, considering the bodyshop guys response when I handed a copy to him. He looked confused.

Thanks Tim! We kind of had a laugh about the bumper. We forgot all about it. Didn't think about it until after we inspected the paint job. We figured the painter forgot as well since he didn't bring it up. The painters response to my wife's text, when asked, led us to believe it was forgotten...

Painter found some more parts to paint today. Pretty sure he forgot about the bumper til yesterday.  Hoping to get the Mach 1 home this Friday. I like to solve complex problems. Can't wait to dig into this project on our own turf once again.

Nice!!! Blue is my favorite color. The tunnel ram will look great cleaned up and sitting on a shelf! Or you could buy another hood and......

That is AWESOME!! Reading about your build stirred some pleasant memories from the Laguna Seca racetrack many years ago. I got to see the Penske-Donahue Camaros. I met a guy who had the "best" job in the world (I thought at the time); he maintained and prepped vintage Trans Am Camaros (don't...

Impressive build! You have some serious fabrication skills! Sorry if I missed it; Do you plan on racing in vintage races when complete? I attended the Monterrey Historic races many years ago and recall being in awe of how the Trans Am cars were modified for track duty. To the point that the...

My wife watched bunch of videos on "how to" wet sand and buff yesterday. There is more to learning than that I know. But as a friend of mine who is also a Mustang fanatic said we have a perfect piece of the car to learn wet sand and buff on. The hood. Even if we don't do it ourselves, again, the...

No worries Geoff! I wish my wife's Mach 1 hood, looked that good! :) Don't know what the heck he was thinking. Just go back a few pages to the pics of the body in primer with fenders and hood attached. He hadn't "filled" it in yet. Why oh why? More thoughts while driving kids to/from dentist...

Yessir! Heck, my wife was "ok" with the orange peel while first looking at the paint job. Her beef and it really bugs her is the hood trim piece. It was the first thing she saw upon exiting our suburban. And it took a few minutes of staring at the hood trim before she was able to walk around...

Thanks Timachone, Geoff, Kevin and all others. Tim there were some major panel replacement; full floor, drivers quarter panel, tail panel, core support and battery tray apron. We brought the car to the shop in a very disassembled state. The only thing remaining on the body were the doors which...

Beautiful Mustang Kilgon!!  The painter of our car should be the one to "finish" our car not some detail shop. Just before our painter painted the body I expressed my hopes that it turns out well enough to "show" the car and like you have business cards available. Also if we did put a poster...

He said that if we wanted the orange peel gone it would be an additional 80 hours labor ($5200). The agreed upon $18k turned into $19100 two days ago. After he said he had some additional hours in sanding just before the paint booth. I agreed to the extra $1100. But I won't do $5200. I even...

The Project Manager contacted several bodyshops and detail shops today. No bodyshop will touch this car with a ten foot pole. But a few did recommend the same detail shop that does wet sand and buff. The detail shop that was recommended was nice to my wife over the phone and offered to come...

Thanks Geoff! I'm not a fan (normally) of green myself. But I agree it will look awesome.  The kid said he applied 4 coats of clear. We plan on hiring someone else to cut and buff. We probably could handle the task ourselves. But I don't want to make a mistake. I'm ready to get wrenching. I...

Thanks Kevin! Yourself and many, many members here have been a great help. I sure wish we all lived in the same town.

Very nice turtle5353! I read through that build and it helped plan ours. After a couple of back and forth texts that were less than acceptable. The "manager" (a.k.a. my wife) of this project has informed the bodyshop to fix the emblem holes and we will hire a professional to wet sand and buff...