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Brian's 1966 pages:
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Southern Iowa Mustang Club
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1966 Ford Mustang C code 289 2-barrel auto problems: rust, hit right front (bad brakes), dangerous rust, rings shot, mice in interior, sahara beige with parchment interior and emberglo appointments with air conditioning!
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This is what it looked like when I brought it home as a parts car for the back window. But you know it aged well in the creek and I just had to rebuild it!
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It needed new rear frame rails and quarters and floorboards and fenders and the engine
didn't run too well and ...
What's he smiling about?
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Cutting the old floorboards out and replacing them was a big job for us. We used a small power saw and it worked fairly well to cut around the main parts and we had to use a torch around the frame rails. There were many spot welds there we had to cut out. We bought special bits for that but they didn't work all that great. I ended up taking a chisel and split the seam and got rid of the weld. We dropped them in and spot welded them on top and May's Mustangs stiched welded them on the bottom every inch or so later when it was in his shop.
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This is a shot of the engine. It was in pretty bad shape. It made interesting sounds and it had a major case of blowby. Not something you see on those fix up shows or in magazines. Like a good small block Ford it refused to die and we actually drove it some before pulling the engine. We did have to put new points and condenser in it as well as new wires. When we tore it down we found only small ridges in the cylinders and the bearings were pretty wore out. The rest of it was fine though. We could have honed it out and ringed it and put bearings in it and it would have run fine. I decided on a full rebuild like my 64 however. I plan on using aluminum heads and hi-rise intake on it. I am also thinking about going with stronger rods.
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We put new floorboards on both sides to replace the totally rotten ones that were in it
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This is where we removed the engine and trans and fixed the battery corner
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Here we pulled the trans after pulling the engine
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This is what you don't want to see in a Mustang project. The rear frame rails are in bad condition. The torque boxes are shot. Only full replacement of the rear frames and torque boxes can fix this condition
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This is work being done at Mays Mustangs in Osceola. It shows the new tailight panel and the new frame rail on the passenger side in place and the quarter panel cut out. It also shows the new trunk floor and the new trunk drop off in place. Am I glad he did this work. It makes me ill just thinking about it.
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This is the other side of the car with the quarter panel removed. You see the new full frame rail in place and the new trunk floor and drop off.
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This shows the work done in the trunk area. It includes new trunk floors and cross piece in the back. There are new frame rails on both sides and of course new inner fender panels. The Mustang will also get new rear leafs on both sides as well as a new trunk lid. All these pieces had serious rust problems. In fact the rear quarters were rusted up as far as the inner fender panels and salt had been allowed to enter the trunk area.
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This is the back torque box area of the 66. Mays welded in new inner panels and new torque boxes and rear frames. They also added new trunk floors and quarters. There was alot of rust damage to the back of the Mustang which had been driven regularly in Iowa for 25 years. Mays Mustangs replaced all the damaged parts with new. If you could see in the picture even along the back of the floor space it was rusted across the back and had to have pieces welded in both sides and over the hump. That is serious rust damage!
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