69 Mustang Mach 1 Resto

I get wanting to make everything perfect, but first maybe try the bumper on and see how it looks. That area may be completely covered from normal view, unless you are going to park it over mirrors, it might not be a problem at all.
 
crashtech said:
I get wanting to make everything perfect, but first maybe try the bumper on and see how it looks. That area may be completely covered from normal view, unless you are going to park it over mirrors, it might not be a problem at all.
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Pretty sure it will be visible.
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I think I missed where the problem area is on the first look. There's just the one photo of that area?
 
I see what dhutton01 mentioned about the die cast extension. The mounting point for the sheet metal appears to be holding the valance down. Hard to tell from here why that is.
 
Had a friend come by yesterday who owned a collision repair shop for years, taught in the local automotive Vo-Tech and is a huge Mustang guy. In other words, he knows his stuff! He told me, the fit I was getting was typical and then commenced to helping me make it fit. With some hammer and dolly work and elongation of some holes we were able to get a very satisfactory fit.

After fitting up the front valance, he then helped my fit up the re-pop shaker hood I purchased years ago. We had to do a little bending, but overall smooth as butter and the fit is great!!! What a great day!!!

So appreciate the comments and thoughts here, my friends. Thank so much for that!!!

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I've been working more with the hood and found a couple things I'm not happy about. First is the trim ring for the shaker scoop. It appears that when they cut it and drilled the hood, they did not have their template correctly positioned. As such, the ring is shifted to the passenger side a little. I could slot all ten holes a little to move it over, but then I'd have to fill the three exposed holes on the passenger side. I'm a little nervous in warping this thin skinned re-pop hood. Really not sure what I'm going to do here. Pissed that this ever left the seller and more miffed that I did not do a better job inspecting it when it came in all those years ago.
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The other issue is an uneven edge at the passenger side front of the hood where it runs along the edge of the headlight bucket. I kept trying to adjust the headlight bucket to acquire the desired gap width but could not. After closer inspection with a straight edge, I found out why. It appears that they crimped the outer skin too far in at the factory. I can fix this with some welding rod, I think.

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Jeez, nothing has been easy. I guess this goes along with the saying, "nothing worth doing is ever easy". ARGHHHHH!!!
 
Where you purchase your replacement parts makes a difference as well.

When doing my signature car, I made the mistake of buying Goodmark Quarter Panels for it. When installing them I noticed the side marker light from one side to the other was off by 3" and the body line that was supposed to center on the side marker light was off by 1/2" on the "good" side.

Later, I tried an AMD cross member floor support for a 1965 Buick Special and it fit perfectly. That car also needed floor pans and he had Goodmark replacements. The sides fit well but the center line was only good for the first half and then so far off at the transmission hump I had to fabricate a wedged shape piece about 4' long and weld it in place.

Hence, all the replacement panels I got for my GTX were from AMD. Were they perfect, not exactly but very close and needing minor fitting adjustments.
 
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