64.5 Mustang resto-mod

[JayinMI]

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What color is that? Looks like a metallic blue of some kind.
Should look really nice!

Jay

[HotRod47]

Careful fitting your trunk lid to tight without the weather strip installed. Mine was perfect prior to paint. After paint when fitting the weatherstrip ran into issues with it bulging up a bit. You should make sure your fit is still good with the weather stripping you plan on using.

Lots of people miss this step all too often. I bought a complete set of rubbers for my car to use when fitting panels and setting gaps. Then during final assembly purchased another brand new set. Sucks buying things twice, but a great insurance policy to know that everything lines up after color and all the rubbers are installed.

[xsboost90]

What color is that? Looks like a metallic blue of some kind.

Jay

factory color Caspian Blue metallic

[EvilBlack]

Following, nice build@!!!

[xsboost90]

almost finished with body work, have to smooth out some edges and get my shelby valance fitting right and trim the lower edges of the front fenders to clear the tires but otherwise she is straight!

[xsboost90]

[ryeguy2006a]

Looking great! Now that I have been doing the bodywork on my car, I know what it takes to get it to this point. Congrats man, looks like your base color isn't too far away!

[xsboost90]

almost ready for second primer, tried to fit the front headlight buckets with the shelby valance and theres some interference there so guess i'll be doing some trimming but otherwise time to tear the front end off and get all the edges cleaned up and start primering everywhere.

[WeaponX_66]

Awesome build man. Very inspiring!

[xsboost90]

well all the large body work areas are done as far as i can tell but the little detail areas are really eating up some time. I trimmed the lower corners of my front fenders today that always rub on large tires, and cleaning up small corners and edges is really tedious work. I had to do some slotting and creative fitting to get the drivers headlight bucket even close but the passenger side drops right on no issues. The fiberglass shelby valance was easy to bodywork flush with the fenders but the top lip near the headlights is not even remotely close and resulted in my cutting off half the flange and remaking a new one out of fiberglass to fit the body and headlights correctly. Sanded inside and out of every panel and only have the valance and one fender left before i can start squirting some primer. Then bedliner on the inside of the fenders, black on the doors inside, and edge some blue in hopefully and start wetsanding the outside of the car down.

[xsboost90]

Ok so been a busy few days painting!!! Late nights since Friday, I now have everything painted and looking pretty nice just some dust but not terrible. Decided to spray everything apart to keep tape lines down but now I’ll have to be super careful assembling. 😴

[JayinMI]

Where did you paint it? Looks like a shop or something (judging by the banners on the walls.) Did you rent it or know someone or something?
Should look sweet after cut and buff!

Jay

[jeff351]

Thats a great color! Looking forward to seeing it come together

[xsboost90]

I have a 20x20 room in the back of my pole barn that I call the “body shop”. Still working on making it great for painting but it’s coming along.

[ryeguy2006a]

Wow, that color looks so good! Congrats! I'm about 2 weeks behind you. After going through this process of painting a car for the first time, it is way more time consuming than I anticipated.

[xsboost90]

Yeah I have buddies over that can’t believe it’s not just spray it and done. Looking forward to seeing yours painted as well

[67SSDan]

Love that color man! Can't wait to see it outside!

Dan

[xsboost90]

Sprayed the door panels last night Eastwood black. Assembly tonight

[xsboost90]

Had some help tonight and got the doors hung. Looking good but now I need to clean up the latch assembly to install.

[digitalsolo]

Looking fantastic! That color suits the car very well.