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Eating wasabi dogs and fixin multiple vehicles, Dave's a multi-tasking maniac!

Just had a very late lunch, a big damn taco salad painted red with topatio sauce.

I mean... "sause"

lol!

time for night shift, some sanding on black betty!

any updates on this cool project, now that betty is done?

I know NUUUTHINK! NUUUTHINK! Especially about wasabi on a dog. What kind of obscene food sorcery is this, anyway?

From the same guy that mixed black coffee with his instant oatmeal because it was going to save time and be delicious...

(that was gross)


ok folks, here we go....





Now I'm back on the stang.

I removed the LH front frame rail, shock tower and aprons.





I've fit the new LH front frame rail weldment and torque box.



I cut as close as I could with the plasma around the LH shock tower and began drilling and splitting to separate all the old apron and frame junk from it.





Some repairs will need to be made, but I want to save this tower because it has the VIN stamped in it.



shock tower to frame rail interface, prior to drilling and splitting.

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There we go, one chunk of frame junk.

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here it is in a test fit after some cleaning and hammer/dolly work.





It will come back off for some repairs prior to final fitting and welding.

Looking good Dave!

Any idea what % of original steel will be left when you're done?

That is looking more and more like a jigsaw puzzle.
But i bet it will look good when done,nice work.

Well, so far it's looking good for the roof.....

Yeh, but have you checked real close yet?

I was thinking that the firewall is still mostly intact, too.

Good lord! This isn't a restore it's a rebuild!

I hate drilling/separating spit welded panels/pieces!

I will be ordering a LH rear torque box/front section of frame rail assembly, both rear halves of rear frame rails, some floor pans, front right torque box and front right frame rail, outer wheel houses, pretty much the entire trunk floor around the tank, trunk floor to quarter drops, full quarters (she's been skinned before, lots of overlap... forward apron halves.... possibly some rocker stuff.

That's just what I know about now prior to getting the paint off the car.


My plan is to support the car at the rocker pinch weld at 4 points (on my hoist) while I replace frame sections and torque boxes. Then I plan to move to rotisserie.

above by ND

that's exactly how I'd proceed Dave

soldier on

The healing continues.













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Wouldn't a radiator-cap-ectomy been much easier?

<lifting radiator cap and replacing everthing beneath it>

Much easier.

enjoyable reading this read, after owning a couple old Fords, and working on more than a few of them.

I recall when I was about ten, we pulled into a Mercury dealer to pick up a new Mercury sedan. Parked right next to a 69 Mach I. Man I was smitten with that car. I didn't appreciate it at the time, but the Marquis Dad bought, with the 429 pre-emission motor, was a beast of a sedan, too.

Is the 390 motor original to the car? In Dad's garage they did a valve job on a 390 that belonged to a college student. It was marked 390, but when they got the heads off, it had the 4 1/4" bores of a 427

I'm getting that car hankering again. The new truck isn't going anywhere, but the 04 may get traded or sold to fund something interesting.

Looking good man. Looking real good.

You could get the mach I with a 390 s code ~ 320hp.

Most I've seen had a 351w and you could get it with 2 different ones. An H code 250hp and a M code 320 hp. I'd think it would handle pretty well on the road with the lighter 351w.

But for the pucker factor you could get two different versions of the 428 cobra jet. I don't remember the codes for those but one of them had the 427 heads, and that could very well be what you were looking at in your dad's garage?

I think they were rated for like 325hp but anyone that ever hit the "go switch" on a 428 knows for damn sure they were north of 400hp.