cruisin5268d

As has been said, I admire your energy and can remember being in my late teens / early 20s and eager to tackle any project.

pascal

And a Belgian beer at that!!
Good taste Sir.

My10-80

Nice build thread. Like others have said, I admire your determination to save this one. Another Mustang salvaged.

austinkli

Got some more work done yesterday.



Putting the carpet in for now, but it'll probably have to come back out so I can get the insulation in later.


Figured it'd be a good opportunity to wash the brackets and stuff on the seats while they were out.






In retrospect, I'm going to need to find a way to hold this down with some velcro or something, because slicing it with a razor blade wasn't the best idea I've ever had. You can see that the carpet is sliding out and getting in the way of my foot, so I'm def going to need to figure something out.


Had some trouble with the center console. Before I wash it, it looks like this.


Then I scrub it and put interior shiny cleaner stuff on it and it still looks like this.


So I left it out of the car for now, thinking I'm just going to repaint it.

Remember how I took that piece out to sand and paint for the center of the dash and how it was disgustingly dirty?


Well since I still haven't sanded and painted that piece I took this opportunity to clean that as well.


The armrest area in the back was pretty dirty. Figured I'd get that clean before I get the seats back in.





Then I moved on to the shifter. The top cover on it was broken.


So two little dabs of super glue...


And while the super glue dries, I decided to clean out the trunk. Remember all the trash that was in it in the first post? I just knew it was gonna be nasty under the carpet as well. But surprisingly it wasn't THAT bad. Just covered in dirt.


So I sprayed it down with cleaner, took a brush to it, hosed it out and drained it. And it was just fine.


Put the rear seats back in.


Went ahead and cleaned off the door sill plates. I'll probably give them to my wife as her have a lot more scuffs on them.


Now let's see if the super glue on the shifter cover held:

Yep!

I did not think about one thing though, no cup holders for my coffee on the way to work this morning though.

krazykevin

I am thoroughly impressed with what all you have done!

I may have to try some of that peroxide and dawn on some stains i have.

austinkli

I did also just get my tires fixed. One of my buddies gave me 4 tires. I only had 2 of them put on since I had to pay for each tire to get put on. They have a smaller wall, 55 instead of 65. So I put the two 55's in the front and left the 65's in the back.

austinkli

Thanks. What part of LA do you live in? I grew up in New Orleans area.

jz

Nice job. I'll admit, when I read your first post I was also thinking, "what a shmuck that you argued for $1,000 when your boss was going to give her $5,000." However that went right out the window when I started looking at the photos.

Have you tried using a heat gun on some of the plastic scratches? Friends of mine do interior repair, and they use a heat gun to remove most scratches on plastic. It's amazing how well it works.

austinkli

I actually just heard of that yesterday on my honda forum. I'm going to give it a shot this week. Thanks! Much appreciated.

Stkjock

Difference between men and boys....


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