I am getting Ol' Yeller's quarter panel repaired tomorrow, and in order to save some money, I am taking off all the chrome on the driver's side rear plus the rocker panel chrome. As you can see, I have everything removed except the rocker panel chrome. How do I remove that?

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See, if you had a GT you wouldn't have that problem.
In the front, there is a stud into the fender held by a nut on the inside. Same for the rear. Use a 3/8 deepwall. The rest is held on in fiveplaces by 'clip' plates pop riveted to the rocker.The mouldingshould pop off. I don't know, I have a couple of GT's so I don't have that problem - oh, I said that. Don't want to be redundant. Don't want to be redundant.
Jim

 

So, Soaring, whats the story behind the chump who kicked in your panel? I missed the story behind that?

 

I was in Houston a few months ago, and my brother had his driveway full of cars, so I had to park on the street in front of his house. Well, even though his house is not very old, and the neighborhood is relatively new, there are a large number of "other" nationalities who are living there. Well, sometime during the night someone (and I suspicion a kid) kicked in my rear quarter panel. I saw the heel print on the panel the next morning.

 

Thanks Jim....She came off without a hitch. Now it's off to the body shop tomorrow then I will need to put all this chrome back on. Even though it's work, it's really kinda fun tearing stuff off these old cars.

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Tell me. In getting the pictures of the rear valence from my 65, I 'vacuumed' out the wheel well, replaced the rubber drains, replace the stud plates and locked the spare out of the trunk when I was done. I get ahead of myself off and on.
Jim

 

That's like walking into a room and forget why you went in there. I did that today. I walked into the shop and forgot what I was going to get. So, back to the work and , "Oh Yeah, I need a deep 3/8" socket."

 

Pictures of a rear valence outer attachment for a 64 to 66 Mustang, all models, 67 and 68 similar.
One - the clip
Two - the valence end

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Three - clip installed
Four - different view
The valence shown is a reproduction I got from NPD about four years ago. I used it as a template to rework the valence on my 66 hardtop to locate the thru valence ports and on a 65 to locate the back-up light ports. It was easier and cheaper than buying two and painting. The material is 0.032 inch (22 ga) steel and dimensionally identical to the originals.
Jim

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OK, send those suckers to me. I assume I need to weld them on. Not a problem if I do.