1967 mustang fastback

NextGen Classics

Floor sweeper
So I thought I would start a thread so you can follow along with this build. Here is the story, I saw this S code four speed for sale in the Autotrader in 2002 out of Florida.
I worked for a guy who bought all there used cars from Manheim so we had a semi of cars twice a week. Internet pics back then we're sketchy at best so I had my boss look at it while he was down there.

He said it was awesome and I believed him. I made a deal with the guy and we stuck it on a semi and brought it back to Wisconsin.

When we got the car back I was able to look at the floors when sitting up on the trailer and all looked pretty good. When I took it off the hauler I noticed something just wasn't right.

The previous restorer put coupe quarter panels on it! Yep the fastback bodyline from the door to under the upper vent was different. Needless to say I was sick!

Long story short I found a donor fast back and used the quarter from just under the bodyline to the lead seam (the only good part of the car luckily)

When I redid it I also did the Shelby conversion to it. Because there were so many things wrong with this thing I decided to do a basic quick resto on it so we could use the car.

While the car turned out nice it wasn't as good as I wanted it and so a complete is now underway.

Here is a pic of the car after I finished it. It won a contest in this magazine and this is the plaque they gave me.
 

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Pics of teardown.
 

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After talking to you guys I decided this car needed to be done right so I stripped it and started over.
There were some pinholes in the floor and so the snowball started rolling from there.
 

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I took the body back off the rotisserie and put it back on it's jig,cut out the floor sections and blasted the inner frame rails. Then coated them with epoxy.
 

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The firewall had a bunch of unneeded holes and dents/tears so I opted to just replace it.
 

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I also replaced the two rear aprons and the passenger side front.luckily the driver side with the two VINS was in nice shape.
 

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Once the front was finished up I moved to the back,took hundreds of measurements, and tore it apart.
 

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While the inner/outer wheelhouses weren't too bad,I elected to replace them anyways....mistake! I should have fixed the originals as the aftermarket ones are crap!
 

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I probably had the sheet metal on and off a dozen times to trim massage it. I used Dynacorn quarters which fit pretty good.
 

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I used the original doors to align the quarters, then replaced the driver door with a Dynacorn.
 

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Then the car got flipped over and I finished grinding the floor welds.Then I built some frame connectors.....somewhere along the way.
I also put in a torque box on the pass side but must not have taken a pic of it.
 
When I had the car on the rolling jig I replaced the cowl. The prior restorer had pulled it to replace the lower cowl and put it back on.
So I blasted the lower cowl area and put a couple heavy coats on it and installed the new cowl
 
The car then went back outside for a final sandblasting...
 

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I then used distilled water and Dawn dish soap with a plastic bristle brush and scrubbed the whole car.
I rinsed it with distilled water followed by isopropyl alcohol in a garden sprayer.
Then I dried it with an electric leaf blower,the next day I put on two coats of epoxy.
 

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I seam sealed the underside of the car and sprayed it with SEM 2k rock guard,then two coats of red oxide epoxy.
 

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