$5000 budget Mustang

[SaturnVUEguy]

You have one of my buddies and me trying to figure out how we can do something like this on two college students budgets, I hope there are some guys in the chicago area that can help, thanks Ron lol!!!

I'm in Chicago area

[Chevelle LT1]

Ron -

Thanks for the updates...always entertaining to see where the latest iterations of the project lead.

[68Formula]

You never know. He could've been a distant relative of Earl Scheib.

[WS6]

I do have to admit a few years back I was at a shop and I noticed the guy spraying this clear stuff onto the car. It had thickness to it and was obviously more than water or something liquid. So I asked and that was my first experience with this stuff. I'm not sure how prevalently it is used though. I think masking is still preferred for the most part. Before that, I had no clue something like this existed

[srh3trinity]

The color looks great. There used to be a GT500 that ran around town in that color when I was growing up and I have liked it since.

[hechtrod]

That color is going to look killer. I think black wheels would set it off! Can't wait to see it together.

[454bug]

Awesome job Ron!!! You are a true craftsman!


and still getting your day job done...


I sure wish I could come see you guys in Georgia...

[qnitro]

I am in awwwe of your true talent!

[dropit69]

Killler !!!!!!! i love that color..i need to hit the lotto and get the new gt500 in that color..cant wait to see it in person Ron ..great job !!

[jackfrost]

those quarters look really straight considering how much they were massaged. very nice work!

[Rybar]

Looks awesome Ron, love the color choice

[Bryce]

awesomness

[wickedred]

I need to do something like that to my 1970 Camaro. I just hate to cut out perfectly good floor boards.

[Ron S]

The more I break up the blue the more I like it.I hope the paint doesn't sink too bad,because I really don't feel like buffing it and I like it how it is {I guess time will tell}

[Damn True]

The more I break up the blue the more I like it.I hope the paint doesn't sink too bad,because I really don't feel like buffing it and I like it how it is {I guess time will tell}

I like the straps. I have similar plans. Did you use riv-nuts to affix them?

[Ron S]

I like the straps. I have similar plans. Did you use riv-nuts to affix them?

I've never had much luck with those things,the bolts go in good,but when you go to remove them,the inserts always spin and leave you saying lots of curse words.I thought ahead for once and welded in the tapping plates in before I installed the rear filler panel,and drilled all the way though the roof and nut and bolted it.Had to use a unibit to drill the brace on the inside to get it big enough to get the socket in there.

I don't know if I'm just so used to looking at it,but it kind of looks normal.The quarters, now that they are smoothed and in color don't look freakish anymore,looks like something Ford could have built.Maybe it will look stupid again once I put the fenders back on.Ron

[Damn True]

I've never had much luck with those things,the bolts go in good,but when you go to remove them,the inserts always spin and leave you saying lots of curse words.I thought ahead for once and welded in the tapping plates in before I installed the rear filler panel,and drilled all the way though the roof and nut and bolted it.Had to use a unibit to drill the brace on the inside to get it big enough to get the socket in there.

Excellent point. You aren't going to be running a headliner are you?

Lets see...the odds of me getting flush riveting a nut plate in? Poor. I haven't pounded a rivet in 9yrs.

Nut-sert....risky.

Nut/bolt....safe but crude and once the headliner is in.....just as big a problem.

I don't know if I'm just so used to looking at it,but it kind of looks normal.The quarters, now that they are smoothed and in color don't look freakish anymore,looks like something Ford could have built.Maybe it will look stupid again once I put the fenders back on.Ron

The proportions are good, and you blended the flare in quite a way out on the long axis of the car. If you'd been more acute with that curve or gone with something like a 70's bubble flare, or 320i box flare it would have looked like ass.

I think there are two ways to do that to an early Mustang and have it look good. Yours, and Preston's. Everything else......not so much.

[HectorM52]

Are you doing something to the firewall? Looks to be gray from this angle.

[lt1chevelle]

i think its aluminum(sp?)

Are you doing something to the firewall? Looks to be gray from this angle.

[Ron S]

Are you doing something to the firewall? Looks to be gray from this angle.

The firewall needs to be touched up,but it stays grey like the interior,the cowl goes flat black though