Blue My Mind, 1972 Ford Maverick

[HotRod47]

Back at it today. Although not as much time as I would have liked to spend. I really need to find a career that will let me work three days and have four off! Do you know of any? I need more time in the garage!

Anyway, I started off by cleaning up the garage. What a mess it had become!

With my dads help I pulled the motor and trans to get them out of the way. Back on the stand and all wrapped up now they are safe. I finished welding the support brackets on the cowl top after running out of welding gas a couple weeks ago.

I then trimmed the motor and bracket on the power windows so they go up and down nice and smooth without that Bang! noise from before. Both sides are good now. I then stripped the doors and removed them from the car.

I then moved on to the radiator support. With my new fender aprons the passenger side doesn't meet up with the support because of where the factory battery box was.

I cut the offending area out.



Made a new panel and shaped it to fit. Had to do this twice as I cut the first one too short when trimming it for a close fit. Really pissed me off to have to start the entire patch over again.

Here is the patch all tacked in place. I will finish welding it during the week. I have a friend with some dimple dies and am going to use them to put some fresh air holes in this panel. I need the air for the injection. I also need to fill in where the tape is now. I want to close up around the radiator for better looks and to direct the air into the radiator.

Once this is done, I will get the entire car stripped and spray on four or five coats of the CRE epoxy primer. Then it will be time for body work.