Thanks, I have the car/shell on the rotissiere so I was able to rotate it upside down to weld th panels in instead of welding overhead which made this a lot easier.

Very nice job!

Tubo wrote:

BB had said the other day, "Jean's Mustang needed drip rail repair". BB nixed the bodyman's idea of shaving and settled for brass. Which I figgured to be brazing..
I think Mike's repair will even beat brazing.

Tubo

Yup Corky, that is better but he's working on a 67 and I think they are differnent.  I've seen the forward section of the 67 drip rail available from CJ, I think, but not so for the 65-66.  The problem I have is that just the very bottom of the  gutter part was rotted...not back under the door jamb where the upper roof seal rail goes.

The fix on our car is done and he did a very nice piece of work from what I can tell. 

BB

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Replaced lower front portion of the passenger quarter panel.  I butt welded the panel in.  Still needs a little finish grinding.

Third car I have replace the cowl vents. Both patches butt welded, epoxy primed and seam sealed and weld thru primer where it plug welds back to car.

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My fastback before it was taken apart and rottisiere restoration began accompanied by my 67 couple.

Little bit more progress. Had a few rust holes behing where the end caps go.
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Not necessarily the prettiest repair but I cut out the bad and made about 3 separate patches.

Drivers quarter patch and fron outter wheelwell patch.

The original quarter had terrible fitment from the factory where it met the rocker and lower door. At the wheelwell the quarter was about flush with rocker then in the middle it hung out over the rocker and at the door it was in further than the rocker which caused the door to not line up.  Have it fitting pretty well now.

Thanks,

Thats how I get motivated is looking at the work of others online.  There are some truly talented people working out of their garages. 

I replaced the floor pans, seat risers, toe boards, drivers torq box as well as added torq box to passenger side.


Then two coats ppg epoxy. Still need to seam seal. Most lap weld the new pans in but this time I butt welded them and learned a few tricks to get the new pans to line up perfect with the original. I ground the weld smooth from underneath but left a slight bead inside since it wont be seen.

The black I am using is the PPG dp90 epoxy primer.  It has a nice satin slight sheen to it.  The car it self was orignally sauterne gold which is fairly rare on the 1967 fastback.  The orignal owner had it painted white a number of years ago.  The white paint looked ok but they took a lot of short cuts.  Like the door jambs left original as well as behind the aluminum rocker panel moulding.

I bought the car from the daughter of the oringal owner who(she) passed away and had driven it up til her 70's.  Her name was ?  you guessed it. Eleanor.  no kidding.

Car came with original owners manual and a big folder full of interesting receipts.

Looks real good! You and I are in the same boat with all these odd little patches. Somtimes I feel like I'm knitting ah quilt rather then restoring ah car

Inner fender apron on driverside where panels overlap had a bit of rust.  Have seen this on many Mstangs.
Both layers had to come off.
Out with the old in with the new.
All wrapped up maybe a skim coat of fiberglass filler after epoxy primer to fill any grind marks.