My '65 Mustang project. (lots of pics)

[LynnBob 65 Mustang]

It was a I6 with a auto.
We got her for $2000 and that included a mildly built '95 5'0 motor with cam and Cobra intake.
It also came with all the following new metal. A complete cowl, two full rear qtr's NOS front fender, new outer wheels wells, new LT rocker, new front floors, toe panels, new gas tank.
All documentation so far points to the car only having 28K on it and it came from southern PA.
We gotta long haul ahead of us for this thing, but I think it will be worth it.




























The floor boards underneath have light surface rust only in a few spots, all the frame rails seam solid a rock.




Lynn

[aslan]

Welcome to VMF. Keep the pics coming.
Stan

[LynnBob 65 Mustang]

After about 6 hrs on between both sides of the scrapping by hand and using a wire brush on the engine bay it is all cleaned up and ready to be covered in the Chassis Saver paint. I have gotten the all the rails underneath the front and most of the of the other side all cleaned as well.
I got my Holbart 140 handler welder the other night, so once I get some training and practice on using it, I'll tackle the rust holes.


Here is the frame cleaned up and the Chassis Saver applied to it.




I started cleaning up the radiator support and engine bay. I cleaned, sanded down, and sprayed on the Rustolium rust converter paint, then I'll hit hit with epoxy Chassis black.

Hood latch before and after


A pile of parts all cleaned up painted ready to go for reassembly at sometime.

The rear of the car has been cleaned, painted with Chassis Savor product and RustOleum rust convert paint. It will be painted Chassis black and the under coat in the spring.



Rear frame rails and floor.


Core support is now painted front and back as well as strut rod frames and lower rails. It has been painted with VHT Epoxy paint satin Chassis black.


Lynn

[LynnBob 65 Mustang]

Originally Posted by aslan

Welcome to VMF. Keep the pics coming.
Stan

Thanks!!
Lynn

[NEFaurora]

You've got a great starting point! Aside from the driver's side trunk drop off and the driver's side floor pan, She looks pretty clean.. You've got a much better starting point than most around here. Put her back to original Or put her back to original with the exception of a V8 302/289 drive train.. Vintage Burgundy rules!!

[Burgandy66]

Looks like a very solid one to start with. Very cool. And yes, Vintage Burgundy is a great color LOL

Have fun,
Kevin

[LynnBob 65 Mustang]

Thanks, we got it as a basket case and it was nice seeing what as wrong with it with no question as far as rust.She'll go back to original for the most part with the exception of a carbed '95 5.0 motor, C4 tranny, all new suspension, brakes, and some Magnums.
Lynn

[Robert65FB]

Welcome to the VMF Lynn, thanks for sharing all the pics. Looks like your already making good progress, good luck and enjoy it.

[LynnBob 65 Mustang]

I'll try and post this as a progress thread liked I'm doing on The Mustang Forums site.
I cut and posted all this from the site and I see it is out of whack a bit. Oh well.

Lynn

[TheDude]

Good to have you here! What part of southern PA did the car come from?

[LynnBob 65 Mustang]

Thanks!!
I'm in NE PA about 45 miles north of Scranton PA up rt 81.

Lynn

[rmarks]

Nice project. Got your work cut out for you, but looks like your making good progress. Nice New Edge too by the way.

[LynnBob 65 Mustang]

Originally Posted by TheDude

Good to have you here! What part of southern PA did the car come from?

It came from the Stroudsburge air port a guy that used to work there owned it and let his 6-7 year old grand kids drive it around the air port all the time back in the day and smashed the whole front end up and bunged up the rear end as well.
Thank god nothing happened with the main frame rails.
Lynn

[LynnBob 65 Mustang]

Originally Posted by marksrs

Nice project. Got your work cut out for you, but looks like your making good progress. Nice New Edge too by the way.

Thanks! I got pretty far since taking owner ship on Nov 1st '09 until 12/5 or so until I couldn't work on it anymore because of the cold.

The '99 GT is mine that I have had for going on 3 years now that I bought bone stock and done several mods as seen in my sig and the '65 will be the wife's when it is done.
The goal is to have it done in 4-5 years from now in time for the Mustangs 50th anniversary, my wife's 50th B-day, and it will also be our 20th wedding anniversary so there is three good reasons to get her done.
Lynn

[LynnBob 65 Mustang]

Update..
I haven't done much to the actual car it self because it has been too cold in the garage to do anything, but I have gotten a bunch of little stuff cleaned up and restored in the basement and on shelves waiting for reassembly at some point.

I just got my second shipment of parts today that I have ordered.

I got a full Grab a Trac suspension that in includes the following parts..

1" lowering front springs
Mid eye rear 4 leaf rear springs
KYB GR2's
1" front and 3/4" rear sway bars.

FREE '65 V8 spindles off a guy that comes into my work place!
New complete UCA's, LCAs, and spring perches.
All new V8 M/S steering components including the Shelby quick steering kit.
Full SFC's and torque boxes.
Some more assorted needed sheet metal parts.
Black curved Scott Drake MC bar.

I hope to order my full front disk brake kit in the next several weeks.
As soon as the weather brakes I want to rip into this bad boy!!
My welder is now all set and ready to go.
Come on spring
Lynn