Stalled 1967 Mustang GT coming back in the queue.

[Bills72sj]

Need some Fords in my display cabinet. Pull out this stalled project to finish up. You are welcome to follow along. Painted (so so) Testors Jade Green Metallic. Has a resin teardrop hood.

[Deuces ll]

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[Painted Black]

Will be watching. Have several of these in the stalled line. Might get motivated to work on them...

[landman]

Niiice. Man that workshop is clean!!!!

[Bills72sj]

8 hours ago, Painted Black said:

Will be watching. Have several of these in the stalled line. Might get motivated to work on them...

Welcome, This one has been stalled for some time.

[Sam I Am]

Will be watching this one Bill.  I built mine a number of years aho and loved it.  High on my list of grail 1:1s

[Bills72sj]

Well, change of plan, found a 427 SOHC motor in my 68 Shelby kit. I want to go with that. The chassis I just finished with the 289 Hi-Po will now be used in my 1967 Shelby GT-350. I finally decided I am not liking the mediocre dark green paint job so it is going in the purple lake for a lighter color change.

[Bills72sj]

Took the stock chassis and performed a 'minitub' job on it today. Did not want nor need to go full Prostreet on it. I removed as much material as I could to move the leaf spring and rails inboard with out having to hack up the gas tank. I made the cuts so I could still install all the stock parts. (My parts box is pretty thin). I scrounged up some NASCAR slicks because they are just the right size and sanded the tread.

[Sam I Am]

You made that look easy Bill.  Good work!

So what color are you thinking about?

[Spottedlaurel]

Nice job on the chassis.

That original paint looked good to me, be interesting to see the alternative.

I really need to think about doing one of the Mustangs in my stash.

[espo]

Well done on the chassis. Now all you have to do is add a little material along the rear to body space to fill it in. 

[Bills72sj]

14 hours ago, Sam I Am said:

You made that look easy Bill.  Good work!

So what color are you thinking about?

Thanks Sam, I a thinking a lighter color like white or silver or yellow. I want to decal it like a period late 60's drag racer. I have to see what I have in my decal stash.

[Bills72sj]

11 hours ago, Spottedlaurel said:

Nice job on the chassis.

That original paint looked good to me, be interesting to see the alternative.

I really need to think about doing one of the Mustangs in my stash.

Thanks, Nigel. It was kind of a transparent type color. I did not do mist coats but went full coverage from the 1st spray. Doing so allowed the color to move away from all the ridges. Now that I have an airbrush I can do better. I know if I left it the way it was, it would always bother me.

I picked the Mustangs simply because my display cabinet is well stocked with GM and Mopar at present.

[Bills72sj]

1 hour ago, espo said:

Well done on the chassis. Now all you have to do is add a little material along the rear to body space to fill it in. 

Thanks David, I do have to do a little housekeeping. I have already trimmed the interior side panels to compensate for the intrusion of the wheelwells.

[Bills72sj]

Spent most of the day fabricating and trimming out the chassis pan and rear seat delete required after the minitub.

[Deuces ll]

Lookin' great so far.....

[Bills72sj]

Painted the body today. Had some airbrush struggles. Medium one blows bubbles, baby one worked for 1st color used, but it resorted to blowing bubbles too. Had to use my siphon airbrush which did ok, but I ran out of paint about 80% of the way covering the last piece (the hood).

[Sam I Am]

That is why I have a love/hate relationship with an airbrush. 

[Bills72sj]

After two weeks of curing, the silver body turned out pretty nice. I sanded the not quite covered hood to get some bumps off of it. Now I need to see if I can find some matching silver paint. I have some of the chrome parts for the 427 SOHC motor soaking in Westleys. I tried using the last dribble of beach from the laundry room but it did nothing. (It didn't even smell like bleach).

[Bills72sj]

Did some detail painting of parts yesterday. Started into some assembly of the chassis and installed the dash in the tub. I have the 427 SOHC block painted. I will start on assembling it tomorrow.

Edited November 15, 2020 by Bills72sj

[Bills72sj]

Well, after assembling the 427 I learned that it does not fit between the shock towers. I imagine they had the same problem in the real world. I guess I'll be hacking a painted body.

[slusher]

Great project, love that dark green paint. Awesome chassis surgery going to follow along!

[ewetwo]

Awesome diorama. And I like the rubber band trick. I have to remember that.

[Bills72sj]

16 hours ago, slusher said:

Great project, love that dark green paint. Awesome chassis surgery going to follow along!

Carl, the green was pretty, just applied incorrectly. It is gone now. Chassis surgery was pretty easy. Trimming the interior panels for the mini tubs was time consuming.

[Bills72sj]

14 hours ago, ewetwo said:

Awesome diorama. And I like the rubber band trick. I have to remember that.

Thanks David. I used it for this project too.