I've had a '67 Mustang, for a couple or so years, I've been doing a lot of work on that belongs to a guy in a neighboring town. I told him this would not be a fast process as I would only be able to work on it here and there as spare time would allow.
It's a '67 coupe, inline 200 6-cyl., 3-spd. standard. It had 4-lug drums all the way around and a wimpy 7-1/4" rear end. I changed out the entire front suspension and converted it to 5-lug Granada front discs. I replaced the 7-1/4" rear with a 5-lug 8-inch rear from a '69 Mustang. I replaced the floor pans and the rotted out right front inner fender apron and repaired the rot to the lower right front corner of the radiator support. Fabricated new brake lines, fuel line and the hard vacuum line to the distributor, as well as fixed a fair amount of butchered wiring and numerous other things that needed fixing/attention on the car.
Body gaps need final adjustment, but the Mustang looks vastly better than it did when it was first brought to me. Soon, the owner will be coming to take it home and it will free up the other bay in shop so I can finally get my '69 F-100 Ranger in there.
Here's the '67 shortly after it was brought to me. I had already removed some of the body panels before I took these photographs but, you get the general idea of what I began with.
Cutting out the rusted out floor pans.
In the process of welding new pans in.
High quality patch job by some previous owner. ...a plastic front license plate and some fiberglass matting slapped over the rusted out hole.
Out with the bad inner fender apron. ...(my '68 Mustang can be seen in the background, off to the right. ...some day, it will be its turn...).
In with the new one.
Crusty front end and anemic front 4-lug drums.
Moving the upper A-arm mounting points 1" lower.
On to media blasting the inner and outer front engine box.
In the process of primering the areas blasted.
New disc brake componets that took the place of the old 4-lug drum setup. (I fabricated all new hard lines out to both of the front wheels. I hadn't gotten to that part when I took this photo).
After putting the 'pretty' on the transmission & freshly rebuilt 200 inline 6, time to put them back into the '67.
'69 Mustang 8-inch 5-lug drum rear end before.
After.
New MC and the new lines I made.
...and after a lot of other stuff, brings us up to today.
...a big difference from what I started with.
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