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last friday.












Everything is showing huge improvement in the front end of the car.

And then, I blasted up inside the cowl and found swiss cheese on the passenger side.



I'm glad I waited to put the side covers back on.

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I'll be opening the top up and going in for some grafting soon.

Good Lord, where did they store this car, in a sauna?

Been in salt water?????? What a mess.

Alright then... moving along.

Removed the extension bracket that attaches the apron to the cowl.



So I could cut the cowl open.










the pics may not show it clear enough but it was pretty clear to me I would not be saving this area with a couple of small patches.



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I made this new piece.

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and the heater inlet riser.


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I think it was a pretty nice improvement over the piece I took out.

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What guage metal do you use for replacement parts like that? Do you hand form them with a bag and hammer, or use a metal brake and weld the pieces together to form the whole?
What are you using to weld the sheet metal? Wish I could weld that well on thin material.
Great looking work. If I needed a restoration like that done I think you might be on my short list. Now, if I could just find a decent 67 Nova around without having to take out a second mortgage......

Bob

Since you likely don't have time to watch tv, you probably don't know about those "reality" car shows where they "build" a car in two weeks and the customer pays them 1000's for the "custom work"

Looking great Dave!

I'm sure you must ocassionally think they sure make it look quick and easy on TV

I used 18 gauge paint grip galvanized for this repair even though the original panel looked closer to 20 gauge.

I used the piece I removed to make a pattern on the new sheet steel. Then it was a combination of bends made on a box and pan brake and some formed over a dolly with a hammer where the part became too complex for the brake.

I keep my small miller mig spooled with .023 wire for these sheet metal butt welds.

I rolled the riser piece and egg'd it by hand to duplicate the original shape. Then I tacked it in place and cut the hole on the inside of the ring with the plasma torch.

Then I did a solid weld along the inside of the riser where it meets the cowl gutter.

It had to be fixed, even if not driven in the rain it would have leaked water into the car every time it was washed.

I'll coat the inside areas of the cowl with epoxy and or a chassis saver coating prior to closing these repaired areas up.

Great jeepers that's alot of work. Nice job Dave.

Minnesota same thing

A whole 69 passed me on the interstate on Monday

I believe it, our washer and dryer is probably made from a recycled one.

This will be one of the nicest mustangs in the country. Gaur-fauking-teed.

Howdy fellers, I'm jumping around between projects and other chores but I managed to close up the cowl area today.

We sealed the inside of the cowl with a chassis saver coating by dominion.











Its nice to have that closed up.

So,..do you have, like 500 egg cartons laying around in the corner with assorted nuts,bolts,pins,clips,etc.? Don't know how in the world you remember where everything goes...

DUDE!!! YOU are the chassis saver - not some coating!!!

We tag and label everything as we take the cars apart.

But with this one, it only does so much good. The car was taken down pretty g'damn far once before us, and put back together incorrectly, hardware store fasteners, wood screws...

We need to reference the original manuals when reassembling this one.

It will be like putting together a model car with instructions. Only its a real car and the instructions are a 5 volume set of shop manuals.

That's crazy patients. I don't have that!

Lemme tell ya,....lemme tell ya.

I been in this man's world too damn long. I've seen 'em come and I've seen 'em go.

But your skills,..and **most**! importantly, your energy and willingness to attack these types of ventures puts you into a fairly elite class. I don't know ya, but I think I've got a reasonable handle on the situation.

This stuff you're doing, Dave,... It has the potential to put you into a lot of situations.

Don't get me wrong. The stuff you do is outstanding,...and I ain't the guy to look for, for advice,...'cause I ain't capable of it.

I'll just say this.

There's people living in big houses on the hill who do what you've learned to, and have the willpower to do.

You seem like a hell of a nice guy.

There's all kinds of avenues for people who do what you're willing and able to do.

Figure out who has the money,...and put it in your pocket.

Go get in a big house on the hill.

I've probably belabored this point too much,...but I've had a small business before,...and if I had been able to turn out a product like Dave does, them useless fatcat sumbitches who wanted a pristine toy to play with would have to kiss my ass to even get an appointment.

Most of the people who have the big money in America today are totally useless sumbitches anyway

If I could make the toys that they wanted,...I'd tell 'em to go on back and hook up to the dick until they had enough money accumulated to buy what I was capable of producing.

Bend their asses. It's all they understand. It's why they are where they are.

Make the useless sumbitches *pay* for their toys.

This is pretty stupid, even by campfire standards.