Wide body 1965 Mustang Fastback

[Poopy]

And here is Jesus fixing all of my amateur body work. I kinda got carried away trying to make things smooth, and ended up making things more blob like.

Wow so awesome, it makes me realize maybe I do need Jesus in my life.

[Jetfixr320]

Wow so awesome, it makes me realize maybe I do need Jesus in my life.

LOL! Love that. I needed Jesus here at my place the last few weeks.

[Matt@BOS]

I suppose I've been holding out on you guys. I'll go through some pictures and put a few more up soon.

Matt

[Matt@BOS]

I guess I have been really slacking on updates, and it looks like picture taking too. The last update I had was right before I got my Camaro's engine back, and that sucked up some time and money for a while. I took it out to RTTC and was shocked to be picked as the Spirit of the Event winner, which has since led me to tinkering and tuning to try and make it fast(er). Neverthless I've still been plugging away on the Mustang I got the DSE Aluma Frame front suspension in place, and have the rear tacked in place as well. That will get final welded in once I figure out what fuel tank I'm running and can determine what amount of sheet metal work has to be done around the trunk area to fit everything nicely.

I took some bad pictures of the install process of the Aluma Frame so I will save you guys from those and only post a few of the major things. The Aluma-Frame is much more time intensive than installing a subframe (duh!) or a simple weld in K-member/crossmember.








Cleaned up the firewall a little:


Sample shot of the wheels going on the car:


On the ground for the first time in maybe ten years. When I bought it three years ago, it was welded to that little car in most of the pictures.




Engine time!




I started mocking up the transmission so I could build a trans-crossmember and ended up having to cut out the whole tunnel, which then led to test fitting the seats, building custom seat pans/mounting brackets and all of that good stuff, none of which I have finished yet. I got sidetracked finishing up the hood so that it can go over to the body shop.

Matt

[85coupe50]

Very Nice... I am interested in seeing how the Aluma Frame works out... It all looks fantastic.

[Mr.VENGEANCE]

YO... NewGen wheels are still in business?

Jon is still doing it?

[gsxrken]

YO... NewGen wheels are still in business?
Jon is still doing it?

I'm curious to hear whether he is as well. I believe I received the last set he ever shipped; they are fantastic but I always have in my mind that they are irreplaceable if the SHTF.

[Mr.VENGEANCE]

ahhaha SHTF..

yea.. those are the new center design.. they dont look the same as the ones I have.. and I saw the NewGen facebook and posts were relatively recent.

so it got me REAL curious..

[Matt@BOS]

About the New Gens...

Jon owed me a set of wheels for my Camaro after he sold the set of New Gens I had on for SEMA one year. All of that happened the same month Driverz went under. I tried not to get involved with what happened and just waited for the dust to clear and give Jon a chance to get things figured out. Since I started working on the Mustang I just asked him to build me a set of the Lites with a slightly revised face that would work well with a large wheel pad. Anyway, to answer the your questions, yes New Gen wheels can still be ordered. Jon now works for the machine shop that cuts and private labels forged wheels for a number of companies. Since these wheels are a bit of a "bro" deal, I'm not sure who would handle the order. I think it would go through the retail company/arm of the machine shop.

Matt

[Z06killinSBF]

What ever happened to this?

[Matt@BOS]

What ever happened to this?

Still working away on it. I had to make the trans tunnel from scratch and modify seat pans. That took some time. I've also had to get the hood body worked and in primer, as well as redoing part of the front fenders to lengthen the wheel opening so the wheels could turn with a 295. Lately I've been working on the engine bay and bringing it up to the quality and look I'm after.

So don't worry, it is alive and well. After taking my Camaro out to SEMA, I'm going to try and pick up the pace a little.

Matt

[Matt@BOS]

Apparently I haven't been good at taking a bunch of pictures along the way, or maybe all of the pictures were really boring, so I never bothered saving them.
I didn't go radically custom because I wanted to keep some degree of originality, i.e. no completely smoothed firewall or fabricated inner fender panels.



I am good at being off topic though, and this is what I've been up to lately:



Matt

[Restocreations]

Awesome project and look at all the hood clearance with the Detroit Speed front end, even with the boss intake! They actually know how to engineer a quality product and put the weight were is should be, down low!!!

[Bryce]

Matt, I may stop by the shop tonight on the way to cruisin grand, will you be around?

[Matt@BOS]

Matt, I may stop by the shop tonight on the way to cruisin grand, will you be around?

Hey Bryce, I've got to leave around 5 today to meet family, so next week might be a better bet. Wish I could make it to Grand today. It should be packed this week. Have a good time!

Matt

[67 ls1 vert]

hummm...4 months has passed. Should be in paint by now. Where's the updates?

[Matt@BOS]

hummm...4 months has passed. Should be in paint by now. Where's the updates?

Hey Pat, the project is still moving along. It might get done by the end of this year, but who knows. I keep finding things to do.

Made some quarter window louvers with vintage fuel fillers in them.





Engine bay bracing:



Rear shelf and storage being fabbed:






New front fascia:



checking initial design on the ground to get an idea of what would work best for a lower grille opening and brake/wheel well cooling.






lower opening, fog lights and brake cooling duct openings in place:


... And that's where we are now. Wheels, brakes, radiator, gas tank and possibly exhaust are all next.

[Matt@BOS]

Awesome project and look at all the hood clearance with the Detroit Speed front end, even with the boss intake! They actually know how to engineer a quality product and put the weight were is should be, down low!!!

The boss intake is actually too tall to fit under the flat factory hood. The hood scoop you see on the car had to be built from scratch to retain a bit of the look from the original Shelby scoop but is about 25 percent larger to fit the Boss and Cobra Jet Manifolds. The DSE front clip is quality product nonetheless and has the best manufacturing quality out of any aftermarket part I've ever seen.

Matt

[67 ls1 vert]

Looks awesome Matt!! keep focused and it will be finished before you know it. I'm diggin the front end.

[nchogberg]

Hello 69MSA and others,

Great Work! Can't wait to see if finished. Found you doing some research for my 1/24 67 Mustang. Hope you dont mind. I am copying a bunch of your stuff. Especially the DSE Aluma Frame after I saw that I had to make one.





The model build thread is here if anyone is interested:
http://cs.scaleautomag.com/sca/model.../t/117501.aspx

Later...
Hog