Slow 68 mustang - Big Girl Pearl or "Yellow Fury"

[arcane73]

July 2023:

I'm on vacation!
Made a run up to Las Vegas for a couple of days to reconfirm that I am not that city's target audience. Living in New Orleans for my younger years filled my social meter for a lifetime.
I did get the engine back in the car before leaving!



While in Vegas, we stopped by the Shelby American shop to poke around.







But, we're back home and all is well. I've got parts over at a friend's that will get dropped off at work when he's free. I also ordered a replacement fresh air vent since mine was trashed and had a hole in it (from the bullet that went through the A pillar and under the dash). It is currently sitting in the garage completely disassembled and soaking in evaporust since it looked to have been holding lots of dirt and leaves in it for quite some time. I'll get back to work this weekend putting everything under the dash back together so I can start getting this pile back on the road.


Made some progress today. I didn't get pics of it, but I put in a retrosound 5x7 in the dash. I also added some speaker grill material over the actual speaker to try and help cut down on the dust (because everything is dusty in the desert) that collected in the speaker.
I also started running ductwork for the ac.....it's a snake's nest under there. To make it worse, I also added the fresh air vent back in on the driver's side. Tomorrow will be spent running the wiring for the AC and cleaning up the existing wiring since I moved everything out of the way to make the duct work easier. I also ordered a headliner from MTF. It's sitting over at Dan's place. I will work on getting that installed sooner or later.







Spent some time in my garage this weekend. I was putting my portable AC through its paces. I had a goal of getting the duct work and wiring sorted out and the dash completely assembled.
By 4 on saturday, I had everything routed under the dash before calling it a day. Sunday, I had to reroute some of the ducts to prevent them from rubbing against the wiper mechanism (not an easy task) and finish running the main power wires. I was able to get most of that all wrapped up and now my dash is more complete than it has been since January 2020!