69 Restomod (UK)

[staffy 87]

Good Evening all.

My name is Chris, I live in the U.K. and here is my plane Jane ‘69 mustang fastback.

plan is lightly restore it and a light restomod; 408 or 427, street or track front suspension, Subframe connectors, upgraded Leather interior,  led vintage air, A/c  Etc 

I bought it from Virginia to over here to the U.K. about 18 months ago, strip down has started.

I’ll post regular updates as work progresses

Chris 

[staffy 87]

Here’s my other mustang, 70 Mach 1 which I’ve restored over an 8 yr period 

[bigmal 225]

Very nice, but are you sure those pictures are in the UK. That's blue sky. 

[aslanefe 333]

2 hours ago, bigmal said:

Very nice, but are you sure those pictures are in the UK. That's blue sky. 

Photoshop?

[RPM 1,190]

Quit stealing all our damn cars!  :)

Just pulling your chain. Welcome to the forum Chris. Nice work on the 70. But I'm with the others on the blue sky. 

[staffy 87]

20 hours ago, bigmal said:

Very nice, but are you sure those pictures are in the UK. That's blue sky. 

 

17 hours ago, RPM said:

Quit stealing all our damn cars!  :)

Just pulling your chain. Welcome to the forum Chris. Nice work on the 70. But I'm with the others on the blue sky. 

 

20 hours ago, bigmal said:

Very nice, but are you sure those pictures are in the UK. That's blue sky. 

Thanks for the warm welcome guys, yes it’s hard to believe we do get sun in the U.K. on occasions.!

i live as far as south  as you can get in U.K. literally as close to `France as you can get across the English  channel, and we do get more sun here then rest of The U.K., which is saying a lot, lol.

 

[staffy 87]

She is now on the rollover jig and strateed stripping the factory underseal off.

I’m quite surprised how solid it is, she’s had 2 No. rear 1/4 with outer wheel well  and LHS torque box at some point, quite good work carried out.

more pics to follow 

chris 

[Mike65 475]

Chris, welcome to the forum. Nice looking 70 Mach you have. Good luck with the 69 Fastback.

[staffy 87]

1 hour ago, Mike65 said:

Chris, welcome to the forum. Nice looking 70 Mach you have. Good luck with the 69 Fastback.

Thanks Mike 

[Grabber70Mach 107]

Welcome to the 69stang forum.  Nice pair of stangs you've got, my two favorites. 

[JET 445 43]

How the hell did you lift that car high enough to get it on that rotisserie ?. The underseal seems to have done it's job, the floor looks very nice.

[aslanefe 333]

9 hours ago, JET 445 said:

How the hell did you lift that car high enough to get it on that rotisserie ?. The underseal seems to have done it's job, the floor looks very nice.

I bet he used the two post lift seen on first and second pictures in front of the rotisserie. :)

[Caseyrhe 650]

Good looking starter project. Best of luck. Does it have tilt wheel

[JET 445 43]

12 hours ago, aslanefe said:

I bet he used the two post lift seen on first and second pictures in front of the rotisserie. :)

Of course he did, well spotted.

[staffy 87]

On 7/9/2020 at 1:01 AM, Caseyrhe said:

Good looking starter project. Best of luck. Does it have tilt wheel

Yes it does, not sure if going to keep it on 

[staffy 87]

On 7/9/2020 at 9:18 AM, JET 445 said:

Of course he did, well spotted.

Spot On 

[staffy 87]

Update, started to take a closer look at Sheet  metal. In summary 3 main points;

1-inner fender pieces, LHD and RHS to replace as hood hinge fixings missing on both sides 

2-LHS frame rail, firewall and floor, find the odd pickle point, so cutting out floor.

less on RHS but going to cut that out when LHS done.

3-front rad core  support piece, nr RHS top bit crusty And looks like a small fender bender in past  so replacing whole unit with RHS inner fender panel as battery tray is rotten from below 

aside form that the car is solid.

getting parts in U.K. proving really difficult, having to order via  and circa  6 week delay and driving me mad eg global west subframe connectors ... joys of owning a US car over here in U.K. 

 

[fvike 173]

Welcome to the forum! Is there some kind of special equipment on the car since it got 2 vacuum canisters? 

[aslanefe 333]

3 hours ago, fvike said:

Welcome to the forum! Is there some kind of special equipment on the car since it got 2 vacuum canisters? 

Looks like ac and tilt steering, one for each.

[staffy 87]

Aslanefe, yes spot on, mine  has both canisters for A/C and tilt

[staffy 87]

On 8/14/2020 at 4:15 PM, fvike said:

Welcome to the forum! Is there some kind of special equipment on the car since it got 2 vacuum canisters? 

Thanks and it has A/c and Tilt Column, hence 2 canisters 

[staffy 87]

Floor pans on both sides are now in and just doing some prep work on seat risers and the Global West subframe connectors, before welding them in.

I have a few days off next week, so hoping to get the welding finished, save for the front rad support. 

[staffy 87]

Upol epoxy primer and Gravitex now applied 

[staffy 87]

[Grabber70Mach 107]

Nice progress