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Lots of cancer on that one!

You are doing a bang-up job with it. Not many could.

Next we had to rebuild the rear portion of the front frame rail and tie it in to the new torque box.

Dave is the bravest man I've ever seen.

The inners originally had a large access hole for the factory spot weld and assembly tooling, much like the interface of the inner rocker to torque box. I eliminated that for strength purposes. Here I'm fitting a backer plate for my final inner frame plate to attach to along with the butt weld.









There we go, nice and solid.



Next is rebuilding the dogleg support for the trans X-member.

The dogleg brace for the trans X-member had rotted off. We salvaged the rear plate that the X-member attaches to, we located the piece, suspended from the bottom of the car with temporary tacks, rods etc, then built a new brace arm.






We're currently about 1/3 of the way through with the same tasks on the other side of the car.

So, I might not be working on the stang, but I'm doing stang-ish work on other stuff.

Husband and wife brought it to me, super nice people. It was the wife's father's car. He ordered it new, she drove it in high school.

As you can see, a paint job wasn't going to make this car OK to drive. It simply wasn't safe, it will be though. I guarantee this forward structure is stronger now than it was from the factory. As I'm building my way out of these structural boxes, I'm closing access holes that were necessary for factory tooling access for resistance welds. Nothing is obviously beefed up when it's all closed up, its fairly discrete, subtle improvements that are worth doing when I've got it cut apart.

I vote that northern dave gets his own sub forum for his car restoring posts. Simply amazing work!

Thank you Dave for a too infrequent episode. God, I love to see your projects as the move along.

Is the Mach 1 done?

Oh hi.

Is that the mild Lunati cam we talked about?

Teen spirit pretty good background music for starting up that new beast


To hell with a car restoration Dave can you weld me up some and make me better than new?


On a serious note, I know it takes time & additional labor, but including pix or videos of the work done for your clients with their cars would be a nice value added touch imo

Breaking in the cam

Sounds Smoooooooth....

How's the Ranchero coming along? That one interests me since it's not something most folks would sink money in, I'm aware of its sentimental value..

I think I went with lunati VDSF-256

Lookin' good ND...

Sweet!
Sounds like it's begging for open road and WFO throttle!

It lives!!

Sounds nice.