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You will sure earn your keep on that one Dave.

Dang that is nice! Candy apple?

To me, that is the quintessential Mustang look!

Yep, Candy Apple, he dropped a 428 in it as well.

IIRC the 351C was first produced in 1970. So it wouldn't be correct for the 69 unless it was a very late production and Ford dropped some into them which wouldn't surprise me in the least.

we'll take careof it, all be cleaned up when you get back. i might go tomorrow as well so i guess, i'll have to work all night.

Pretty Palomino and a great set of sliding plates.

Dave, There's a lot of metal being scrapped off that car and renewed (in the truest sense of the word).

Coupla' questions:

A.) What do you pick as your control point / "survey Stake" from which to square everything up on the diagonal, for correct height, parallelism, and other alignment mojos
critical to handling and tracking ?

B.) Do you measure optically as well as with measuring devices ?

Cheers, and thanks for another interesting thread aborning !

GTC

not when you're a grudge racer. But in other cases yes. Though I have broke a dart SHP block in a car going 8.80s My fault, rattled the motor, and it cracked the web

I love reading Dave's posts. Reminds me of my younger brother. He has been doing restorations for years as a hobby and does most of the body work himself.
He told me what he pays for a good paint job a few years ago when he was building the '69 Camaro in the pics below. I spun my head around and gave him a giant "WTF" look. ??
He said, first of all, good paint is really expensive. Second, the good guys aren't cheap. I said "OK then". Nuff said. End of story.
Here's that '69 Camaro:






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[img]http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e396/local_dirt/Marks%2069%20Camaro_002_zps1kyoupmz.jpg[/img]

Awesome

Really digging the green mustang posted above. Like the paint scheme but love the color.

Back in my younger days I owned a 1970 Mach I 428 CJ, it was yellow with black trim, black window louvers and black spoiler, it had the rare drag pack, wish I still had it. The girls sure liked it, if that back seat could only talk.

As I was/am heading towards retirement I decided I wanted to toy with an earlier car. I had mid-60's Corvette's before kids. Didn't really have a care whether Ford, GM or Mopar just did not want to spend a wad and I wanted something to work on with my youngest son. I found this clean, rust free car in SoCal for a song. All original and most rebuilt, repainted, etc. Jr now knows how to use a timing light and also what a jolt feels like. We are having fun with it.

I love it, Ed! Beautiful!

Great thread!

(DROOL)..

Gawd, the Mustangs in those years were HOT...

I plan to level the car, supported by 4 points at the rockers.

That's my plan anyways, level the rockers, reference them for my frame rail placement per ford drawings.

Dave you need a framing Jig, my buddy has one that we've used to build tube chassis cars. pretty simple to build your own with some I beam.

Not to make light of the whole spectrum of challenges involved in this line of tradesmanship,...

The ALIGNMENT "mojo" is what drove me crazy anytime I messed with unibody / subframed vehicles.Did this for friends that needed help with old, salt damaged classics out of Eastern Canada.

Always made me glad that my primary focus was larger vehicles, trucks, etc.

The thing with "Jigs" and Fixtures is that they are virtually ALWAYS in the way of piano wiring, string lining, or optical measurement.Remember we're REaligning things here, not doing an initial build.

I'd say something along the lines of a giant universal protractor that one could roll in and out underneath might make life easier.

Hope I didn't spoil Dave's fishin' trip with this brainstorming.

GTC