For the RestoMod, she's on bit of a hiatus right now; I'm waiting until my investment property sells and I can free up some cash. Beyond timing of when I'd like to have the car completed, I'm hoping it'll just be a matter of a month or two before we're all back on it again.
So lets see...an update...
November 4th or 5th was the last time I saw the car and the guys had made some great progress; all the body panels had been placed on the vehicle to get an idea of how we wanted to roll sections out. The quarters are now welded into place vs. being tacked in.
One of the key areas of focus is on the rear quarter panels. The car is 2" wider in the rear than stock. This will eventually mean that custom tail sections will need to be fabricated to make up for the size difference.
The goal is that unless an individual looking at the car is a Mustang fan, the average person won't be able to pick up the changes. Anytime someone see's another Mustang, especially one sitting next to mine, they'll be thinking "what's different?". And that's what I want; something totally unique that makes, to quote Arsenio Hall, "that makes people go hmmmmm...".
That said, I think this change is helping to give the car a more aggressive look. With the custom tire wells able to hold bigger tires, that "aggressive look" is sure to become reality.
With that, we've been testing a design idea of rolling out the fender flares for the quarter panels and front fenders.
Johnny had rolled out the quarter panels by about an inch, which looked good, but looking at the car in person, it just didn't seem to be enough. What I mean is that it looked too soft, not aggressive enough. I left it off with Johnny to bring it out more.
The front fenders were just mocked up at this point for rolling in the flares but we'll come back to this when I have a bit more scratch to devote to the project.
A new purchase to be made sometime in the future will be a replacement for the drivers side door. It's been bang up before as is evidence of some of the patch work. For the equivalent dollar in labour, it's just easier to replace the entire door itself so that's what we'll do.
That said, I talked to Marty since and he's updated me that the front clip has been tacked in until we're ready to go on the project again. The Resto will be going into storage until the next update.
Harvey
