The Donor Car

Not much has been going on with the Mustang lately. We are kind of on hold trying to get money situated. I think my credit should be in order so the 2nd week of June I will probably go in to get the loan for the restoration. I don't have any idea how big of a loan I will be able to get... but hopefully a big enough one to do the whole car. I am nervous about taking out a loan but it will just replace the car payment that I use to have. It will be nice to be able to get going on the mustang again.

Today I got more Mustang parts. Mike and his dad picked up a 1967 coupe from Payson. This car was owned by a Mustang Friend by the name of Larry. Sadly, he passed away in December. His wife Grace was trying to clean things up and asked Mike and his dad to sort thru all the mustang parts. They spent a few hours in Payson sorting thru things. She also was nice enough to let them buy this car off of her. They were able to take all the parts they wanted off of it and then sold what was left to another friend. So I now have the Disc breaks for my car. They even ended up being power disc brakes. I also have replacement front seats, and a rear view mirror. I feel honored that I get to have parts of Larry's car in my car.

Mike also picked up the carpet underlining (sound deadner) last weekend. He went to a car show while I was babysitting Jenny's kids. I guess some guy won the underlining in the raffle but he didn't have a car that it would work on so he asked if anyone else could use it. Mike spoke up so the man gave it to him. It was nice getting the underlining for free.

There have been a bunch of parts given to us. Mike's parents gave us a bunch of stuff they had for stored away. Then the random guy at the car show. It is good to see parts coming in without all the money going out. I am getting to the expensive part though. We have done about all we can without money.

I am working on getting back into the mustang again. I ordered a bunch of catalogs from Mustang Parts stores. I already have a spreadsheet of parts I need. Once I get the catalogs I will compare and make sure I am getting the best deal possible on these parts. I am excited to get going on that. Anyways... I am hoping that within the next couple of months things will pick up and I will be able to leave more posts. I guess we will see what happens.

The UPS Man is going to know us by name...

We got more parts today. The door panels arrived. Looks like we now have all the parts that we ordered in that kit. We still have plenty more parts to buy for the car though... we are far from done.

This is one of the new door panels.

It is fun getting car parts. I never thought I would find joy in that. I can't wait for the next shipment to come in. It is going to be a little while though.

Mike's dad came and looked at the floors of the car. They aren't as bad as he was thinking. It looks like we wont be replacing all of the floor on the passenger side. There are parts of the floor that are fine. The Drivers side is not so good though. I am surprised because I thought the passenger side would be worse. When we picked up the car we could see a hole on the passenger side but not the driver side. Surprise... the driver side has an even bigger hole! I have faith they will be all patched up some day... hopefully soon.

We haven't really been doing much on the car lately. We are discussing having it bead blasted so the grinding is at a stand still until we can get that figured out. Hopefully things will start picking up on it though. I am anxious to put the interior pieces together.

Day 11 and the Big Brown Sleigh

I guess I should start off with the Big Brown Sleigh. It came again on Friday. As you may recall... some of the Mustang parts we got were for the wrong year. So they had to send us out the right year. We now have to send back the wrong parts. Anyways we have the upholstery and the correct arm rests. The door panels are wrong. They are white instead of red. So those have to be sent back out and the correct ones sent back. Eventually we will get this all correct. I was a little nervous about the color of the upholstery but I looked at the old back seat and it matches the non-faded parts. So that will be good.

Mike went out to the garage today. We haven't really been out there much. We are waiting for Gary (the guy who will be painting the car) to come and look at it and give us an idea of what the cost will be for paint. We also are trying to decide if we want to continue grinding off the paint the hard way... or just have it bead blasted (which would be quicker but more expensive). So we have put the grinding on hold for now until we can figure out what we want to do.

Mike wanted to at least get the seat platforms cut out of the car. We plan on reusing those... although Mike is now not so sure. They are a little rusty on the bottom of them. I am hoping we can sandblast the rust off and be able to reuse them.

Before

After

Mike working on getting the passenger platform out.

The rusty underside of the platform

Both platforms out of the car