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

Jackpot!!!

I am now in sunny St. George. It is great! Mike and I got here late last night. One of the things on my agenda was to look for pictures of the '67 from back in the day. Rumor has it that there is a picture of my dad standing next to the Mustang. That was what I was hoping to find.

Well I didn't find that picture but we did find a couple slides of the Mustang taken April of 1967. We were very excited to find these. We then went to Colorland Photo and they were able to print them into 4x6 and 8x10's. I was happy they were able to do it while we waited. I was thinking it would take a couple days... but nope!

One of the things we learned.... was that there were white stripes down the side. That was not something listed on the Marty Report which means it was something the dealer had put on. Now that we know it had the white stripes... we will be sure to put them back on when restoring it. I am happy to see it has those. Just one more thing to set this mustang apart. It also makes me very excited to get working on the restoration now that I have seen what it once looked like... and know what it will look like when we are done.

Another thing is the plates. We called the DMV and no one has those plates. So we are going to have replicas made of the original plates and have them registered to the car. It will make it more like the original. I am very excited!! I am glad we took the two hours of digging thru pictures to come up with these incredible finds.

Now for the moment you all are waiting for....