Project S-1970 - 1970 Torino on a 2011 Mustang

[Billf67]

Once the majority of the fat was trimmed off of the Mustang's unibody, it was time to start trying to put the Torino shell on. Since the back half of the mustang was out of the way, we built another cart to sit the Torino on in order to roll it into place on the front half of the unibody. This made it easy to see what else needed to be trimmed and also see how far forward the car would need to sit to get the wheelbase as close to factory as possible. The windshield was going to be a problem tho since the mustang windshield would not work. Getting a windshield made was out of the question and since this would be a daily driver type of car, I hated to use lexan due to how long it would hold up. So we decided to try and use the factory Torino windshield and adapt it to the Mustang's cowl section. First try, I bent a piece of angle to mimic the curvature of the old Torino's cowl where the windshield sat and was going to tack it near the rear of the mustang's cowl and then build a cover panel to make it all look factory. This would have required trimming the back of the dash a few inches but that didn't seem like to big of a problem until I looked at the dash again. Mounting the windshield this way would have the bottom running right into where the defroster vents are on the dash and due to the way the system is built under the dash, rerouting the vents would've created a lot of other problems and fixes that I was not capable of. I can fix metal to some degree, plastic not so much. So with that idea scrapped, it was on to the next one. After a lot of going back and forth, we finally agreed upon moving the Torino a little farther forward and have it sit slightly higher on the unibody to allow us to slice into the Mustang's cowl and add the new cowl in place. By doing this, the Torino windshield would have to lay back and the A-pillars would have to modified. Hesitant at first of how the end product might look, we made one side to get a general idea and both agreed that it would be barely noticeable once finished. Once everything was in place, we could clean it up to make everything look factory and all the water would run off where it needed to go. This is simply our working idea right now due to making sure the rest of the car is all together before doing anything to the windshield, so this is a future project to tackle. But since we now had a game plan for the windshield, we knew about where the Torino body had to sit on the unibody in order to move on. Had to throw on the wheels and fender to get another good visual of what the end product will look like. The front fender will require some adjusting to get it nice and centered over the wheel since we are adjusting the original wheelbase now