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Hmm, I didn't know they used to be silver but now that you mention it, I think my spare tire is kind of silverish. I think Ill leave them black, I think they go with the car a bit better.

Progress! So far the new windshield has been installed as well as the rear window. The whole car has been sanded and polished so now it looks even better than when it was painted. Right now all the small stuff is being put on. Drip rails are installed, new door handles, locks, side scoops, rear side markers, tail lights, and antenna are all put on. Just waiting on a few things to come in. A few of the parts even came in sealed factory Ford packages. Not much longer now!

So what exactly is it thats so special about a B nickel if I may ask. :biggrin:

Thanks unfrozen! Well, the window trim is on its way. It wasn't cheap though. The parts guy made it sound like it was coming from somewhere in Canada maybe? He just said it was coming from way up north and shipping was going to be kind of expensive. I got the window clips from the local parts guy as well. Had them in stock for 30 cents each. So now its just waiting for the trim and new mirror and I think thats it as far as gather parts to put it back together! (Or maybe not, theres ALWAYS something else :whistling:)

I'll keep that in mind. I actually just got back from talking to the local mustang parts guy and he has a lead on one. Someone he knows that does parts also I guess has this piece. He was going to call me later with more details on it but hopefully this will work out.

Wow bnickel, my car and I thank you! So the window trim is listed for a fastback, but it will work fine on a coupe with 70 weatherstripping? Thats the stripping that attaches to the trim right? As for the mirror, I think I'm going to have to buy that one up. :shifty:

I had a little rust below the door jam switch, but they took care of it for me. I don't know what method was used to fix it. As for the car, all the small pieces are painted on it now. Cowl, headlight buckets, quarter extensions, chin spoiler, and rear valance. Also ordered up a bunch of weather stripping and random parts to get the car put back together. I actually have some questions on parts if anyone has an answer for me. I'm looking for the clips used to hold on the trim around the windshield, I guess they currently aren't being made? The second is the stainless steel strip that attaches to the rear of the window that seals the quarter glass. Mine got beat up and split down the middle and I can't seem to find those things anywhere either. The last part is a new side mirror. It's not the 'bullet' or racing mirror but rather one with a rectangular base and remote adjust. I can't seem to find that thing either. Took it by a local mustang parts guy and he said it looks similar to a 68 mirror but he thinks the base is different. Anyone have an ideas on these parts?

Ladies and gentlemen, I am pleased to present to you a painted mustang. :biggrin: Steve worked his butt of Friday and stayed late to get it panted and then came back Saturday to finish her up. The blackout hood and door stripes haven't been put on yet. Its going to get a little bit of sanding to take down the almost non-existent orange peel and then buffed. I am very happy with the color. With it in the light the car looks to be almost 3 different colors depending on how you look at it. I cant tell you how cool it is to be able to see actual refections of things in the paint! In one of them you can see the little red Honda I've been having to drive around the absence of my Mustang. But less talking, more pictures!!

Geez, you'd think coming from the person who designed and made the mustang what it is, he wouldn't be telling people to ditch them. :001_huh:

Ok, I know its not mustang related, but I found this on another forum and it had me laughing through part of it so I wanted to share with you guys. Enjoy. complaint letter to virgin airlines Dear Mr Branson REF: Mumbai to Heathrow 7th December 2008 I love the Virgin brand, I really do which is why I continue to use it despite a series of unfortunate incidents over the last few years. This latest incident takes the biscuit. Ironically, by the end of the flight I would have gladly paid over a thousand rupees for a single biscuit following the culinary journey of hell I was subjected to at the hands of your corporation. Look at this Richard. Just look at it: [see image 1,above]. I imagine the same questions are racing through your brilliant mind as were racing through mine on that fateful day. What is this? Why have I been given it? What have I done to deserve this? And, which one is the starter, which one is the desert? You don’t get to a position like yours Richard with anything less than a generous sprinkling of observational power so I KNOW you will have spotted the tomato next to the two yellow shafts of sponge on the left. Yes, it’s next to the sponge shaft without the green paste. That’s got to be the clue hasn’t it. No sane person would serve a desert with a tomato would they. Well answer me this Richard, what sort of animal would serve a desert with peas in: [see image 2, above]. I know it looks like a baaji but it’s in custard Richard, custard. It must be the pudding. Well you’ll be fascinated to hear that it wasn't custard. It was a sour gel with a clear oil on top. It’s only redeeming feature was that it managed to be so alien to my palette that it took away the taste of the curry emanating from our miscellaneous central cuboid of beige matter. Perhaps the meal on the left might be the desert after all. Anyway, this is all irrelevant at the moment. I was raised strictly but neatly by my parents and if they knew I had started desert before the main course, a sponge shaft would be the least of my worries. So lets peel back the tin-foil on the main dish and see what’s on offer. I’ll try and explain how this felt. Imagine being a twelve year old boy Richard. Now imagine it’s Christmas morning and you’re sat their with your final present to open. It’s a big one, and you know what it is. It’s that Goodmans stereo you picked out the catalogue and wrote to Santa about. Only you open the present and it’s not in there. It’s your hamster Richard. It’s your hamster in the box and it’s not breathing. That’s how I felt when I peeled back the foil and saw this: [see image 3, above]. Now I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking it’s more of that Baaji custard. I admit I thought the same too, but no. It’s mustard Richard. MUSTARD. More mustard than any man could consume in a month. On the left we have a piece of broccoli and some peppers in a brown glue-like oil and on the right the chef had prepared some mashed potato. The potato masher had obviously broken and so it was decided the next best thing would be to pass the potatoes through the digestive tract of a bird. Once it was regurgitated it was clearly then blended and mixed with a bit of mustard. Everybody likes a bit of mustard Richard. By now I was actually starting to feel a little hypoglycaemic. I needed a sugar hit. Luckily there was a small cookie provided. It had caught my eye earlier due to it’s baffling presentation: [see image 4, above]. It appears to be in an evidence bag from the scene of a crime. A CRIME AGAINST BLOODY COOKING. Either that or some sort of back-street underground cookie, purchased off a gun-toting maniac high on his own supply of yeast. You certainly wouldn’t want to be caught carrying one of these through customs. Imagine biting into a piece of brass Richard. That would be softer on the teeth than the specimen above. I was exhausted. All I wanted to do was relax but obviously I had to sit with that mess in front of me for half an hour. I swear the sponge shafts moved at one point. Once cleared, I decided to relax with a bit of your world-famous onboard entertainment. I switched it on: [see image 5, above]. I apologise for the quality of the photo, it’s just it was incredibly hard to capture Boris Johnson’s face through the flickering white lines running up and down the screen. Perhaps it would be better on another channel: [see image 6, above]. Is that Ray Liotta? A question I found myself asking over and over again throughout the gruelling half-hour I attempted to watch the film like this. After that I switched off. I’d had enough. I was the hungriest I’d been in my adult life and I had a splitting headache from squinting at a crackling screen. My only option was to simply stare at the seat in front and wait for either food, or sleep. Neither came for an incredibly long time. But when it did it surpassed my wildest expectations: [see image 7, above]. Yes! It’s another crime-scene cookie. Only this time you dunk it in the white stuff. Richard…. What is that white stuff? It looked like it was going to be yoghurt. It finally dawned on me what it was after staring at it. It was a mixture between the Baaji custard and the Mustard sauce. It reminded me of my first week at university. I had overheard that you could make a drink by mixing vodka and refreshers. I lied to my new friends and told them I’d done it loads of times. When I attempted to make the drink in a big bowl it formed a cheese Richard, a cheese. That cheese looked a lot like your baaji-mustard. So that was that Richard. I didn’t eat a bloody thing. My only question is: How can you live like this? I can’t imagine what dinner round your house is like, it must be like something out of a nature documentary. As I said at the start I love your brand, I really do. It’s just a shame such a simple thing could bring it crashing to it’s knees and begging for sustenance. Yours Sincererly XXXX http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/4344890/Virgin-the-worlds-best-passenger-complaint-letter.html Paul Charles, Virgin’s Director of Corporate Communications, confirmed that Sir Richard Branson had telephoned the author of the letter and had thanked him for his “constructive if tongue-in-cheek” email. Mr Charles said that Virgin was sorry the passenger had not liked the in-flight meals which he said was “award-winning food which is very popular on our Indian routes.”

Ya kind of an update. Man believe me, I want my car back so bad but I also don't want to rush them. The new fender has given them a little bit of trouble. The original headlight bucket didn't quite want to fit up with the new fender and neither does the front spoiler. If you look closely in the first picture, you can see the fender drops down a little lower than the headlight bucket and the curves around the outside of the fender don't quite match up with the headlight. The fender and headlight bucket have been taken care of. The car has been block sanded already so now it just needs to be hand sanded with 500 grit and its good for paint. So its close, just no projected date yet! Edit: I think the second to last picture makes the car look rather angry. :angry:

Hmm, its been a little while so I'm going off memory. I believe you use a hammer or something to break a plastic retainer to pull out the old shaft? I also seem to remember cutting the column to make it shorter for some reason and then tack welding a piece that came with the kit. I would have to look at the instructions or the steering column again to refresh my memory but I think thats what it involved but maybe not in that order. Sorry if that is kind of vague. Thats cool that he upgraded the lines. Wish I had gotten those instead of the rubber ones. Edit: After looking at the pictures you posted, the old shaft does come out and is replaced by the new shaft with the bearing attached. I think the column gets trimmed down so that the shaft with the bearing can meet with the piece further up the column. Then either you drill a hole or there is already a hole in place to secure the bearing in the column by tack welding so it doesn't come out, but can be easily drilled if it needs to.

Oooo, did it come with the braided hoses? When I got mine it was just high pressure rubber lines to work with the stock pump.

Well its been a while since I've posted progress pictures but its mostly in prep stages so theres not a whole lot to see. Before christmas it was getting final touches to the body and getting prepped for a final coat of primer. Currently it has its final primer coat and is getting block sanded for actual paint. This is just that final stage that feels like it takes forever because its so close to being done!

Ouch that would be painful. I hope he had some sort of shipping insurance which I don't see why you would skip on if the car cost that much. Turn it upside down and use it as a body hammer. :thumbup1:

Mine turns 40 on the 21st. Hopefully it will be out of the body shop before its birthday. My gift to it on its birthday! :happybday:

Hmm thats a good idea. Just a couple of screws to swap over the old cap. The base is actually kinda bad. I tried to polish it up but there are cracks in it where the chrome is just plain gone.

Haha dang, wish I would have read that earlier. I actually just finished painting the gas cap. I masked off everything and painted it. Id say it turned out decent, not super good but better that it was to start with. The red is darker than what it looks like in the picture, looks kind of pinkish in that one. I think it just needs a little cleaning up around the edges and it will be fine. Also got around the gear on the outside, that took forever to mask and cut out everything.

:biggrin: I'll make sure he reads this.

Went by today and more progress. The body guy who checks this forum once in a while and thinks its funny I call him the body guy, shall now be referred to as Steve! :tongue_smilie: Steve started the block sanding and all the body parts are on the car again! The hood problem has been kind of resolved. We decided to trim a little bit more off the hood to give it a little bit more clearance. That along with a little grinding on the throttle body should take care of the clearance problem. I also took the GT gas cap and hub caps with me to repaint the emblems. We'll see how well they turn out.

Well, the entire job is kinda expensive. But for just paint, we kind of factored it into the entire cost but so far for the paint itself I think it was something like $460. Kind of hard at this point to tell you how much painting it alone will cost, but im still excited! I stopped by today and still more progress! The trunk lid got painted a while ago, I just never got to see it so I got a picture of that. The inner part of both fenders has been painted as well as shot with undercoat. However its not all good. Something was bound to happen eventually but we've run into the bump that others have hit as well with reproduction pieces not fitting up correctly. The problem is with the fender and door lower body line. With the top body line aligned the bottom line is off slightly. Its not by much so someone probably wouldn't notice it unless they got down there but its still kind of a bummer. The body guy is going to see what he can do to try and get them to line up as best he can and try to make the lines as close as possible. Also, it turns out that my intake manifold was hitting the hood slightly but I just never noticed it. Part of the nut that holds on the throttle body hits the cutout for the hood scoop. Its nothing that can't be fixed but I just had no idea of how little space I actually have with that intake on it. Nothing a little bit of griding and filing can't fix. (not on the hood of course)

Went by yesterday and he was fitting up the doors. I think he had the driver side door lined up and was working on the passenger. Also, the interior of the doors got painted. The section that the trim is going to be covering got the Acapulco Blue and the section below that which is visible got a coat of paint matching the interior of the car. That paint they actually had just laying around from another car so it got used on the doors, and it matches the interior perfectly. Again, the camera doesn't capture the color all that well so I took a picture of the seat against the door which still doesn't bring out the color but shows how close it is.

Hey the paint on that floor pan turned out pretty good. The blood sweat and tears only make it look better in the end. :tongue_smilie:

Window aligner had better of been the best paid person on that assembly line.

Yup, Acapulco Blue. Speaking of which, the door jams got sprayed out! Its looks beautiful. The pictures I took don't do it justice at all. The blue is so much darker and deeper looking in person. Standing in the right light almost makes the paint look like a dark blueish purple. I'm so happy I went with this color. I only wish the camera was able to capture it the way it looks in real life.