**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

**WOW**THATS BRIGHT:)

They ought to see danielle coming in this ha ha. The 99 prowler yellow looks sweet and Donnie the body man did a nice job on the stripes. there are still a few small things to do but for the most part it's done. I still need a peice of trim for the front of the hood and I also need to get the buckets recovered and the carpet in. I Hope you enjoyed the pics it was a fun project . I have a 67 fastback I need to start on next but that one may take a bit longer:) all for now The Taylors Jason, Danielle, gabe & sami. :)

HOME STRETCH

well it's looking good we dicided to go with the 99 prowler yellow and 99 BMW silver for the stripes. dupont paint- base /clear. I had a rear quarter patch panel put in and a new left front fender other wise the car was very clean rust wise. donnie sanded 4 different colors of paint off this car it should be about 50 pounds lighter. LOL!! anyway it's been a fun project. hope you enjoy the pics.

Cock Pit

I started working on the interior it was blue and I am changing it to black. This car is just a daily driver and I still have my fastback to restore yet so I decided instead of spending Bank on the interior I would save some money and try dyeing the back seat which was in excelent shape and removing all the trim panels and painting them Satin black. It was a slow process there where alot of little tiny items i had to clean and paint but it's starting to take shape. I also lubed all the window tracks while I had it apart so the roll up and down very easily. everything turned out great the headliner has a few dull spots in it but lets face it how often do you look up when your driving the car. all thats left is to get the front to seats recovered which I plan on doing myself. I also installed a CD player that is I-pod ready, blue tooth,USB port, and it also has a SD card slot so you can down load songs to an SD card and then just slide it in and bingo you got 300 songs at your disposal. I thought that was very cool. The next step will be painting the car we are going with a Competition Yellow and 2 Metallic Dark Silver shelby stripes.