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Old 01-04-2020, 10:02 AM
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Default 1965 Mustang Restomod Convertible

Reliable trucking delivered this 1965 Convertible for a customer from Va November 2018. At first this looked like a very nice Mustang with very little rust but you can tell it wasn't a good paint job. She still wants it painted "Baby Blue" and mostly stock on the outside. Her Husband is building a new small block with a C4 transmission with a Gearvenders overdrive. We will be installing DSE front and rear suspension and she wants leather interior. They bought this back in Aug. 2018 and they wanted a rust free Mustang when we are finished with it. I suggested she drive this one for the 1 1/2 years it was going to take to restore and sell it when we finished building the 65 convertible we had behind the shop. To make it rust free everything has to be removed to get to the inner structure and epoxy primed. She wanted this one restored



















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Back from the sandblasters. Brian has a lot of rust repair before the fun starts installing the DSE suspension and flaring the fenders and quarter panels.



























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I sprayed two coats of SPI epoxy primer on the area that won't be replaced.

















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The upper cowl was stripped to bare metal and epoxy primed







Brian is getting ready to cut out the rust in the lower cowl



The rust was cut out and a patch panel was welded in place. When you install aftermarket AC the cowl vents are blocked













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Is that really a half inch of bondo on the rocker panel?

Sounds like it's going to be a cool build. Good luck!
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The lower cowl was removed.





All the rust was removed and epoxy primed





The back side of the dash was sanded and epoxy primed



Lower cowl clamped in place and Brian spot welded.





Brian welding the upper cowl and welds cleaned up.



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We decided to replace the floor since there was a lot of small holes in it.



Found a few small holes in the inner rocker panel



This is what we found in the inner rocker panel.





Both left and right inner rocker panels along with the right outer rocker panel were replaced.



Also replaced the lower right A pillar





New floor pan sanded and epoxy primed before installing

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