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- Montevideo, Uruguay
- My Car
- 1972 Mustang sportsroof
1970 Mustang Hardtop
1972 Mercedes Benz 350 SLC European Version
1950 Ford Custom coupé
Well... im opening this post to tell you guy, in detail, my 72 Sportsroof story, hoping it will be as enjoyable (bad spelling!!) for you, as it is for me...
First of all.. as i'm a spanish language guy, forgive me for my gramatical error!! and if you want, correct me to help me improve
Well... the story starts something like this... I´m was always a big fan of mustangs, since i was a kid... But in my country, there are no more than 40 or 50 mustangs here and there.. Uruguay is a small and quite poor country and Mustangs wasn´t for sale in any dealerships, so the cars we find are always cars with long trip stories behind...
My first mustang was a rolled over and destroyed 1970 hardtop... HORRIBLE but very loved by me when i actually purchased it... je! Then i had a couple 1966 coupes.. one with a mercedes bens diesel engine and the other one, with an argentinian Falcon engine (actually, better engine than any 6 cylider original ones.. 221 cubic inches, 2V carburator and almost 200 HP)
But my dream was to get a fastback... here you simply don´t see a fastback at all... there are some here and there but in hands of old guys rich collectors... not buyable for a 30 y/o working guy... UNTILL.... i realise that a couple of block from my parents house there was a red shell sitting under a "roof" in the backyard of a house...
My mother told me it was "Dieguitos Mustang"... As the past owner was Diego, a chilhood friend of my mother...
As the matter of fact, it was a totally dissambled 70+ mustang that wasn´t for sale at first... To make a long story short... monthes later Diego decided to sell the car to me, cause of his friendship with my mom...
The car had almost 10 years sitting cause it was robbed and most of the interior was stolen, along with the original wheels, and some mechanical parts to.. Front suspension mainly...
Hood, doors and fenders... glass etc was also in the backyard, but outside the roof!!... Buying the car was like getting a black box...
First pics re taken the first days i had the car...
Well... as soon as i got the car, i put some pieces together to see how was its condition... to see him "like a car" and not a bunch of dusty parts... For me, the car was really lined up... no crushes shown and in its 10 year-sit, most of the rust was repaired in a not show, but good work so.. i was happy to see a mustang in my garagge!!
As i am a "do it myself" kinda guy... i bought a MIG welder and started to fix the rest of the rust... that was not too much so it came ok...
Then i putted everything in the car... Grille, lights etc and when i saw everything right, i started to prepair the body to paint...
note: the guy shown is not Brad Pitt... it´s me!! jeje
And now, i´m gonna show you guys what i did with the engine compartment... I have to tell you that i didnt take the engine off... maybe was a mistake... and a lot of extra work for sure... But as i had almost no money, i knew if i take it off i surely had to do or fix a lot of things and the car was gonna be sitting extra time... So... as the car was running, i just paint it arround and does it!
Well... after the engine compartment job... that i was very proud of... jeje... I started to get serious about the body prepair for painting... I used a 2K primer (the best of PPG series) and the process was done with no major issues... i kept my eye in all the usual details i always see in repainted cars like the usual, not so good shine when you move across the body... When the surface is not perfect, the car shines weird and i hate it!!..
Another usual prepair mistakes is leave the lower parts in a second plane... as people always look at the roof, hood but the rails and valance panels are invisible??....
Well... almost a week working with my head down solve that issues...
Well... Primer is in the car and then... a lot of buffing (is that buff the correct word?.. we´ll never know) The car was ready for paiting... starting with the interior and using the Ivy glow colour in Deltron PPG polyester base and D800 PPG clear coat... almost the best you can get over here...
I had that colour and clear from before as i wanted to paint my Mercedes 350 SLC in that ford colour
At that time, i didnt know for sure the correct colour for this mustang and the VIN number was all i had... a marti report sounded inesesary for a 6 cylinder 3 gear mustang...
I think i dont have pics from this particular stage in this computer, as i am now at work... I´ll look for them anyway....
-well... didn´t find pics so i uploaded the ones with the car painted and almost all put together... This is how it it today... with no rear bumper
First of all.. as i'm a spanish language guy, forgive me for my gramatical error!! and if you want, correct me to help me improve
Well... the story starts something like this... I´m was always a big fan of mustangs, since i was a kid... But in my country, there are no more than 40 or 50 mustangs here and there.. Uruguay is a small and quite poor country and Mustangs wasn´t for sale in any dealerships, so the cars we find are always cars with long trip stories behind...
My first mustang was a rolled over and destroyed 1970 hardtop... HORRIBLE but very loved by me when i actually purchased it... je! Then i had a couple 1966 coupes.. one with a mercedes bens diesel engine and the other one, with an argentinian Falcon engine (actually, better engine than any 6 cylider original ones.. 221 cubic inches, 2V carburator and almost 200 HP)
But my dream was to get a fastback... here you simply don´t see a fastback at all... there are some here and there but in hands of old guys rich collectors... not buyable for a 30 y/o working guy... UNTILL.... i realise that a couple of block from my parents house there was a red shell sitting under a "roof" in the backyard of a house...
My mother told me it was "Dieguitos Mustang"... As the past owner was Diego, a chilhood friend of my mother...
As the matter of fact, it was a totally dissambled 70+ mustang that wasn´t for sale at first... To make a long story short... monthes later Diego decided to sell the car to me, cause of his friendship with my mom...
The car had almost 10 years sitting cause it was robbed and most of the interior was stolen, along with the original wheels, and some mechanical parts to.. Front suspension mainly...
Hood, doors and fenders... glass etc was also in the backyard, but outside the roof!!... Buying the car was like getting a black box...
First pics re taken the first days i had the car...
Well... as soon as i got the car, i put some pieces together to see how was its condition... to see him "like a car" and not a bunch of dusty parts... For me, the car was really lined up... no crushes shown and in its 10 year-sit, most of the rust was repaired in a not show, but good work so.. i was happy to see a mustang in my garagge!!
As i am a "do it myself" kinda guy... i bought a MIG welder and started to fix the rest of the rust... that was not too much so it came ok
...Then i putted everything in the car... Grille, lights etc and when i saw everything right, i started to prepair the body to paint...
note: the guy shown is not Brad Pitt... it´s me!! jeje
And now, i´m gonna show you guys what i did with the engine compartment... I have to tell you that i didnt take the engine off... maybe was a mistake... and a lot of extra work for sure... But as i had almost no money, i knew if i take it off i surely had to do or fix a lot of things and the car was gonna be sitting extra time... So... as the car was running, i just paint it arround and does it!
Well... after the engine compartment job... that i was very proud of... jeje... I started to get serious about the body prepair for painting... I used a 2K primer (the best of PPG series) and the process was done with no major issues... i kept my eye in all the usual details i always see in repainted cars like the usual, not so good shine when you move across the body... When the surface is not perfect, the car shines weird and i hate it!!..
Another usual prepair mistakes is leave the lower parts in a second plane... as people always look at the roof, hood but the rails and valance panels are invisible??....
Well... almost a week working with my head down solve that issues...
Well... Primer is in the car and then... a lot of buffing (is that buff the correct word?.. we´ll never know
) The car was ready for paiting... starting with the interior and using the Ivy glow colour in Deltron PPG polyester base and D800 PPG clear coat... almost the best you can get over here...I had that colour and clear from before as i wanted to paint my Mercedes 350 SLC in that ford colour
At that time, i didnt know for sure the correct colour for this mustang and the VIN number was all i had... a marti report sounded inesesary for a 6 cylinder 3 gear mustang...
I think i dont have pics from this particular stage in this computer, as i am now at work... I´ll look for them anyway....
-well... didn´t find pics so i uploaded the ones with the car painted and almost all put together... This is how it it today... with no rear bumper
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