**PONY UP**

302 bored .30 over with a nice set of the smaller size combustion chamber heads on it dad brought down from my shop in Edgar. my friend billy has been building engines his whole life so i wanted him over there when we put the bottom end together. everything went together great and we should have it done in a few days . i had the crankshaft ground and micro polished . Stepped the camshaft up 1 notch. and the heads have been fully rebuilt with new springs ,seats, rockers. and a 3 angle Valve job. Tommarow I will order the aluminum intake manifold and a couple other odds and ends like a new fuel pump and distributor

**Keep On Keepin On**

**Taken-A-Brake**

Did the entire Brake system and It was a job Had some good help from Dad. Mom was making good suppers so we just kept on a workin. took 3 days and about 8 trips to the parts store for stuff they had to special order but it is done and looks great also got the front steering and new upper and lower control arms on replaced all the strut rod bushings and Glass bead blasted everything and painted it Satin Black it turned out to be a nice finish on the painting and the sand blasting is the only way to do it totally removes all the surface rust and old hard grease or paint. Also Replaced All the brake lines and new master cylinder I figured we were that far into it may as well do it all. the only thing I need to do on the front end is to put the new coil springs in They are 1 Inch lower than the factory ones to give it that Sleek Look hahaha. all for now .

**Shock Tower & Awe**

heres some before and after shots of the shocktower and inner fender well Apron replacement.

Lick'ity Tear Get That Engine Out Of There !!!!!!

Pulled the engine & Transmission out today and will comense deep cleaning of the engine compartment and the rest of the car. Then come the Replacement of the Entire brake system and the steering system. The Transmission that I pulled out of the car today was an "FMX" Transmission and was not standard equipment for this car so I purchased a rebuilt "C-4" Transmission That is considerably smaller and will fit much better in this car and allow more room for the new exhaust system. :)

Finished Product

I added some 1/2" High Density Foam to the seat bottom to make it easier on the buns. and a little spray of adhesive spray helps to keep things in place while your stretching the material over the seat frames.

**Sows Ear into A Silk Purse**

Here is some shots of the metal frame after it being wire brushed and repainted also some shots of the new burlap that has been aplied to the seat frames. each bucket seat takes about 125 hog rings to complete.

***Have A Seat Son***

these are acctually the seats out of Danielles yellow car I haven't started on the ones out of the fast back yet I thought I would practice on these seats first being that this is the first seat I have ever re covered. I got 20 hours in the first seat from start to finish and It turned out nice. I have 10 hours in the second seat so I am getting better by leaps and bounds and I'm only on my second seat. I hope to get down to be able to do one bucket seat in 6-7 hours but for now I'm happy with 10.

THE SEAT: as you can see the old frame has some surface rust and the burlap is old and discolored. I just wanted to show a few shots of the seat tore down before I re covered it. I wire brushed everything and re-painted all metal parts Semi-flat black before new burlap is installed. as you can see the picture of the small metal listing rods, they also had surface rust the top 2 are cleaned and the bottom one is still rusted "before & after" . the listing rods go into the cracks of the seat to keep everything snug and give the Vinyl a tight look. clamping these correctly is the toughest part of the entire operation.

*PRAISE THE LORD AND PASS THE WELDING WIRE*

Well The patient is on the doctors table and in critical condition !!! Surgery is scheduled for tomorrow morning after breakfast !!!!!LOL!!!!!!

cleaning will begin first and the removal of most every thing . Also I will probably remove all the glass on this car just for the simple fact it will make it easier for me to work on. The front window is broken it will need replaced anyway. all the other glass is good. More pics will fallow ofter I get the carpet out of it and start on doing the floor. The floor looked good from what I could see actually no rust holes in the spots that they normally rust at due to the faulty cowl gasket problems all older mustangs seem to have. I did notice a few golf ball size holes but I won't now for sure until I get the interior all removed but so far so good on the under side. There's more to come so stay tuned to see the transformation

I CAN'T STOP BRINGING STRAY MUSTANGS HOME !!LOL!!!!! cute little feller's