Tim's 1973 Mach 1 rebuild thread - it's done in 2023 on it's 50th birthday!

[Vicus]

Tim

now I know what you have done last Thursday!

Respect! Well done! Congrats to you and to Oli, your helping hand.

Cheers

Frank

 

[timachone]

Tim

now I know what you have done last Thursday!

Respect! Well done! Congrats to you and to Oli, your helping hand.

Cheers

Frank

Yes, Frank, I have always a reason...

Thank you!

Cheers ::thumb::

 

[73MACH1WV]

Congrats Tim, your work is some of the best that I've seen.......awesome!

 

[timachone]

Congrats Tim, your work is some of the best that I've seen.......awesome!

Thank you very much for your words, my friend!

 

[machmeter1]

Hi Tim

Great job, guess both of us will complete our restoration soon. Would be nice to meet you one day.

cheers

Wolfgang

 

[6972boss]

Very nice! Enjoyed reading this. I had a 73 T5 mach as well. Saved it from the crusher.

 

[timachone]

Hi Tim

Great job, guess both of us will complete our restoration soon. Would be nice to meet you one day.

cheers

Wolfgang

Thank you, Wolfgang! Soon is relatively - as it concerns me... Hope to meet you one day, too ::thumb::

Very nice! Enjoyed reading this. I had a 73 T5 mach as well. Saved it from the crusher.

Thank you very much! Cool - where did it go?!? My father has a 73 T5, too - a vert...

 

[jbojo]

Tim,

That QTR panel replacement looks really good.

 

[timachone]

Thanks, John - your words are very appreciated!

I am satisfied with fitment now too. Hope to get some time soon to continue with the other side...

 

[tony-muscle]

I read the first page of your project thread and I am extremely impressed. Great job. I needed to ask about the tire/wheel combo of this picture. I love the looks of the car with those rear tires. Can you share the tire/wheel rear/front combination in that picture?

 

[timachone]

Hi Tony,

thank you for your words :thankyouyellow: Great, you appreciate my work!

Yes, no problem: it's 275 / 60 R 15 in the rear and 235 / 60 R 14 in the front on American Racing chromed steel wheels. The offset I do not know but If you want I could measure them in the next weeks...

Hope it helps!

 

[tony-muscle]

Hi Tony,

thank you for your words :thankyouyellow: Great, you appreciate my work!

Yes, no problem: it's 275 / 60 R 15 in the rear and 235 / 60 R 14 in the front on American Racing chromed steel wheels. The offset I do not know but If you want I could measure them in the next weeks...

Hope it helps!

Thanks... that will be awesome if you can tell me more about your wheel dimensions. Do you have a side shot of your car? I am looking at alternatives of tire sizes. This one is appealing but i know the rear tires would be a little taller than the fronts so I want to get an idea if the difference is noticeable.

1971 M-code Mach 1

 

[timachone]

I think, the picture above shows perfect how the dimensions are. For my taste it is a little too big in the rear so I will update to 15" all around and a bit smaller in width...

 

[DK73]

Wow that is so awesome [THUMBS UP SIGN] Regards Lars

sent from my 2303. Regards Lars DK73 Denmark

 

[timachone]

Thank you, Lars ::thumb::

I call it: "Kissin' Dynamite"

 

[DK73]

Well you are so right [THUMBS UP SIGN] They are what I call the best looking Mustangs ever built [TONGUE][TWO HEARTS][THUMBS UP SIGN] Regards Lars

sent from my 2303. Regards Lars DK73 Denmark

 

[Wide-body71]

Car sits nice and looks great!

 

[Wide-body71]

Mine were also 275-60 in back and I had 225-70 up front, on stock 15" magnums, before this new build. Now they're even taller in back.

 

[timachone]

Hey Mustang-fanatics,

it takes a long time to continue but now I am in again! In the meantime I had to manage lots of trouble in my life - now I am on a safe and good road again and I can look into a lucky future. So I have enough power to move that baby a good piece of work forward in every minute I can afford this - with (soon) 3 children now and a beautiful wife not as easy every day...

Here are the updates of the last weeks/months:

After welding I formed the quarter panels back over weeks of painstaking work with cold-tin and aluminum-bondo and tons of dust...









After I was fairly pleased with the result I aligned the holes for the quarter rubber bumper fillers new by welding and fitting them exactly to the new quarter panels





Now I went to the hood - there was a lots of work too because of much too much layers of paint paint, rust on the hood latch catch area and a ripped hood catch bumper area... Lots of sanding and welding too. The weldings were filled - as always - with cold-tin like this

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Furthermore I cutted the holes for the original tooling hood lock pins from Ohio-Don



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Then sanding and straighten the front side of the hood

 




 















 




 

 

[timachone]

After finishing the hood I went to the deck lid - it needed also some work...