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1 & 2. Stereo mounted inside console.

3. Speed holes for air ciculation :lol:

4. Cover I made out of some foam board and more scraps of fabric from the bottom.

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Finished Product!

I now have a fully removable console (held in place with velco) and I can unhook the stereo from the boom and slip the wires under the driver's seat!

...and some ass posted on another forum that the stereo wouldn't play CD's on it's side. I knew it would... so I hooked it up and proved him wrong. NOT ONLY will it load and unload CD's Sideways, it will do so upside down and play as well.

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Passenger side was MUCH easier. I did the whole thing in maybe a half hour after I got the headliner peeled back.

I also started gutting the interior for dynamat extreme.

This car was ridicuously CLEAN! This is by far the most rust free classic car I've ever been able to work on or look over this closely. You can see in the last pic there is a little bit of surface rust in the driver side floor. I think at one point there was a master cylinder leak because the fluid ran down and bubbled all the floor paint. The DS floor pan was definitely original as were the rear two (light pitting in some spots could be seen under the paint.) I also removed some of the old seam sealer that was loose in areas.

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The only patch panel I have been able to find on the entire car. My guess is that the A/C leaked, got the carpet wet, and rotted the passenger side out. They did a good job of hiding the repair, because I couldn't tell from underneath. They forgot to cut the hole for the A/C drain, I'll have to address that soon.

The black paper is what's left of the old (actually fairly new) factory sound deadener. Most of it came right off except certain areas. I cleaned it up a lot better (removed most of it) before installing the dynamat. I took the pics right after I ripped the crap out.

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Dynamat installed! NOT as easy as TV makes it look, and that aluminum backing is easy to slice your fingers against. I had a few bleeders that day. A tip is to leave the backing on and mold it to the area first, with contoured floors you'll need to make a lot of relief cuts. It stays contoured pretty well, so you can make your cuts and test fit it again, THEN peel a section of the backing and work it in, then remove more, etc...

GREAT product. I got 76 SF of it from fleabay for $280. Expensive, but a lot cheaper than other places I found it. Also, with some reasearch, a lot of other deadeners like fatmat are just the cheap rolled roofing product with a label on the back (read the fine print, if is says "asphalt" don't buy it.) Butyl is what you want. It lasts much longer and stays pliable. The asphalt base stuff hardens and peels off in a few short years.

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I cleaned up the rust on the driver side and rust encapsulated it. I also did a little area on the passenger side as well. The pedals got some flat black paint as well. Drove me nuts to have a nice restored car and rusty pedals.

Because of the cool temps it took forever to dry, so that's where I'm at. I had to add some seam sealer under the rear seat as well and it was still tacky sunday afternoon so that one piece was all I could do for now :(

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Because of the tacky paint and seam sealer, I Played around with my stereo install some more. I got the wires routed cleanly under the hood. There was a couple grommets missing from the firewall so I added those. I painted the rear speaker covers/grills, and played around with mocking where to put a seat of 3 point belts in the back. I think I have it figured out.

I think I'm going to have an insane week at work this week (easily 60-70+ hours) so she may sit a week or two.

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I guess this thread is mostly for me to go back and enjoy :D

The Dynamat is all in, except for in the truck. I was going to try to do the roof under the headliner by popping the bows out and letting them "sag" but it was stretched so tight between the windshield and back window that there was NO "sag", so I didn't do the roof. I did to the B-pillar, under the quarter windows, and will eventually do the doors and trunk floor.

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I hear ya! You are not alone. Maybe this area needs some advertising?

BTW car is looking good.
My wife made sure my stepdaughters 68 Stang had 3 point belts installed.
That was a few cars ago.

Keep it up!

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Thanks, I really appreciate it. And yes, 3 points are a MUST. I've owned my C10 since I was 15 in 1996 and my dad wouldn't even let me drive it until I installed them, and when a seatbelt saved my life a couple years later I don't want to drive anything without them. It was driving me nuts waiting as long as I did to actually do it, I kept to roads that were 55Mph and under, with most being in the 35-45mph range.

I know I cheated by buying a car that was "done" but I'm "making it mine" which is NOT cheap. The stereo/dynamat/3 point update (see pics below for backseats as well) has cost around $900, I just ordered a VA kit, more on that in a bit, for $1280, the wheels/tires I want are ~$1,300 (see above pics), I spent $400 for a power brake kit (already has discs) and I'll probably spend another $800-1K updating/dropping/improving the suspension. This car is not going anywhere for a while! But it's OK, because in less than two weeks I'm going to be paying off the last of my 27K student loan debt, which I've been paying anywhere from $300 to over $1K per month since I went back to work in 2010 to wipe it out (been paying on it since 2005, so I should have a little "money to burn" to finish this car and finish up my home resto. I know I haven't been updating that thread, but I'm down to one bedroom (trim only), the bonus room above the garage, and the upstairs hallway, all other rooms are now done and fully furnished.

My computer messed up, I had to restart and do a bunch of crap to it. Here are the pics for the previous post:

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Here's what it looks like with the carpet back in. I also got the headliner reglued. It worked out really well, no tears, no ripples... so you can add 3 points with a headliner in, so there's no excuse not to do it!

A cheap box of office clip binders came in really handy for this job!

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As I mentioned a bit ago, I'm also doing the backseat. I was able to squeeze in some GM parts!!! The guides came from a 78-82 corvette!

My car originally didn't have any rear seatbelts, so I had no factory bolts or holes to use for under the rear seat, so I checked out a lot of pics online, measured under the car to miss the frame and other things, and drilled some holes.

I also located the roller in the trunk. I wish it could have been moved over some so the line was a little straighter... but that's where the rear frame rail is, so it is what it is. Still works well.

Also, the trunk floor is not terribly thick, so I cut a piece of 1/8" steel plate 3"x4" to put under the floor. I will do the same for the belts under the rear seat as well.

This is as far as I have gotten. I've been putting in 60+ hour weeks the past 4 weeks including 10-12 hour saturdays which has not only killed my time to work on the car, but the energy I have left to do so. Hopefully we'll slow down a bit soon, I need a break.

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Some of the trim on the car wasn't installed very well, and it's old aftermarket stuff that's pitted, etc, so I ordered new trim for the car. I removed the old stuff, touched up the paint underneath to prevent any future rust, and reinstalled the trim.

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As I mentioned earlier, I wanted to keep the car as factory looking as possible... well, screw that. The factory A/C has gone out. Turns out the compressor is knocking and the clutch is in poor shape as well. To replace those parts, buy a new condensor/dryer/seals/fittings to convert to R134 after I replace the compressor will run me around $800. Not to mention the fan in the underdash unit sounds horrible, AND when I used the heat system this past winter it SUCKED. The fan sounded horrible, there was hardly any flow, and the heat didn't feel all that hot. My C10 has had a VA kit since 2006 and it's awesome, so I ordered one for the mustang to eliminate all of that old crap. I've also read the old York compressor can suck up to 15HP running, you can literally feel it kick on and off when it did work. You can't tell when the Sanden compressor kicks on or off on my C10.

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Im in the process of getting a 65 or 66 Mustang as we speak. Well im hoping to in the coming weeks atleast

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Look it over really well. Mustangs rust about the worst of any 60s car. Their unibody construction was never coated on the inside like todays cars. I looked at over 30 cars before i bought mine. A lot of them were painted up pigs... most important areas are the frame, cowl (including under the dash) and front aprons/frame/firewall area.
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Thanks! Ill be bringing my buddy with me who restored one so we can catch all the spots...

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thinking about going to take a look at this
http://nashville.craigslist.org/cto/3616139265.html

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I actually like the color, and if it's as nice as it looks that's a really low price.

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Well Ive got the guy to where he will consider $4500 cash even though he would be taking a loss.. Suppose to go see it at the end of the week

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Redneck, your not trying to say that Ford pony cars a rust prone are ya? :lol: LOL :lol:

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O and have i mentioned your car looks awesome?

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Pontiacs can be too... but this one sat outside in the woods of NY for over 20 years. This one actually rotted from the inside out. Snow got inside, carpet never dried... very very rusty floor, but "not too bad" elsewhere.

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Well we have up on that green mustang after seeing some before pics...Severely bent door and the kid never fully fixed it before paint so no idea what corner he might of skipped or weird stuff.. Went down to GA to look at what we thought was a greal deal on a 68 with 1989 302 and T5 in it. Only to find out dude wasnt forth coming. Lot more body issues, lifter ticking, gauges didnt work etc...but on the way back,,,We found one.. a 67 Mustang with 302 engine and a 3 speed. It was restored in 2000. Runs strong, has minimal rust, and the body is pretty straight. So now I can follow back through your thread and find some of the little things you have done to help with mine :) She even has high back buckets

look forward to seeing more updates on yours

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Cool. Looks like a nice soild car. I want to do suspension mods but it's almost cruising season and my vintage air kit came in yesterday. I'm going to be replacing some leaking engine seals and maybe repainting the dash. They did a great job restoring my car everywhere but the dash... they painted over chips etc and it looks crappy.
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awesome...I wont be able to cruise in mine for a while because i had ACL surgery but main objective will be to get tires, front disc conversion, and work on the rust.....All window seals are dry rotted to so lol

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I like modifying stuff, but for this car, since it appears to be so original, or at least look really original, I want to modify it so that it looks like it could have been factory.

I added rear speakers in the rear deck and installed the factory style covers. Came out pretty cool, but then I got stuck on the front kick panel speakers. With the parts I had, they just didn't look quite right. All of the colors I bought that were supposed to match didn't either...

I pulled all the emblems off the car because they're a little rough and don't match the quality of the outside of the car. I test fit a fender badge on the kenwood grille cover and it looked kinda cool. So I went to a paint shop and had them mix me up spray cans of my interior color using my inner rear quarter panel cover to make it. It is a tick off, but it's painted plastic, not metal, so I was kind of expecting that.

I also removed the pins off of the back of the fender badge and buffed it with a dremel. Came out really nice. 3M tape and a sharp razor blade took care of the sticky part.

All parts were painted to match and I think it came out pretty cool. To me, this looks more like what Ford would have done than what I originally was going to use (right side of comparison pic.)

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speakers look good, thats thinking outside the box and using whats available!!!

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Love it!!! I shall steal the idea when i get that far lol

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Thanks guys. It's been absolutely perfect cruising weather here. I've put probably 200 miles on the car the past two days. I placed my last big order with NPD on thursday so she's going to be in the garage for a bit. I need to replace all of the motor and trans mounts, timing cover seals, new oil pan gasket, water pump, pertronix ignition, and will be fitting all of the new Vintage Air stuff. I'm going to repaint the dash, so that's going to slow me down a good bit... and I still have to finish the mounts for the back seat 3 point belts... AND install the dual reservior power brake set up... I'm going to try to have it done by May 18 because a good friend wants to take some pics with it as his wedding... we shall see. I just don't have a lot of free time, I hope I can have it done by then... yeah... it won't be done by then...

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This one pic represents a lot of pain in the ass greasy work.

On these cars, even with good rollers on the window frame (which from what I can tell, no one sells? and they're riveted on anyway) the quarter window will rock back and forth a bit. But, you can adjust them! Mine was adjusted so that it fell "forward" a bit and when I had the window up on the DS door the top back or the door frame would hit the top of the quarter window frame when I opened/closed the door.

I decided since I had it all apart (this happens so much!) that I would take the quarter regulator out, grease it and all the tracks up, and put two new rollers (these ones you can replace) on the regulator arms. It wasn't as bad as it sounds but took at least an hour to do, not counting the hour of video footage I watched on how to do it :lol: So the door now opens and closes nice!

I got all the quarter trim back on the driver's side and the 3 point permanently mounted finally on that side. It also got new dark blue pinch trim (whatever it's called) and all the parts cleaned up. I started Dynamatting the trunk so I get can all the crap back in and out of my garage.

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NOT a good start to my morning... at 7:50AM a deer jumped out of the woods as I was passing and slammed into the side of my truck... I just barely saw it out of the corner of my eye and heard the bang. Never even touched the brakes. It was an area where the woods are right on top of the road. I hate deer.

At least it was my "old truck" and not the new mustang or any of the classics. It will be fixed. Already filed a claim. The cab dent is pretty bad, there's a crease so it will have to be pulled/filled/painted/blended and I think it will need a whole new bedside, it actually doesn't look too bad in the pics, but at one spot the bed is pushed in at least 4 inches. I don't see it ever looking right again.

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Out with the bad... in with the good. I need to get this car ready for cruising!!!

One of the last hurdles in putting the backseat back in is finishing up the trunk sound deadener, and I couldn't mount the seat belts until the mat was back in... so it was time to get to it! Put the sound deadener in, then the matt, then locked down the seat belts, and neatly routed the rear speaker wires, and put the spare back in. Came out nice. I left the factory style stuff on the fuel tank.

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Mat.

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How nice the body panels are in this car, that's factory metal.

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New pinch molding stuff and the driver side quarter all back on and everything locked back down, as is the DS seatbelt. The divider panel is also "locked down" as well. It really is getting there.

I still have to crawl under it and make some backing plates for the lower mounts for the rear 3 points out of the 1/8" steel I used in the trunk. Take the PS quarter window out/apart like I did on the DS, and get it all back in then the seat can go back in. I need to clear out my garage and these big pieces are taking up space, so I'm going to completely finish the back before I tear out the old A/C system.

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One of the things about my car that drove me nuts... the capture nuts! They rust behind the trim piece and just look bad. Not really noticable, but I saw them everytime I washed the car and there's no need for rust on my car!

It's a pain to remove the fender splash guard so I used some tape and a really thin screwdriver and they pop right out.

...then you can see the aftermath... not pretty.

However... it wipes right off once the rusty capture nuts are removed and the trim pieces are out.

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So I bought new trim pieces. They come with new capture nuts... which I will not be using. I used the thin 3M double sided tape for the trim pieces. The pony emblem was easy, but cutting out the "MUSTANG" was a bit of a pain. You need a new sharp razor blade. As you can see, I doubt anyone would be able to tell they're taped on (all the marks on the fenders are my greasy finger prints... she hasn't had a bath in a long time.)

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Awesome job!!

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Thanks!

I hope people don't take this board for granted. I found what I thought was one of the most active forums for classic mustangs (and seemed to have a good group of people) and I've posted just about everything I've done to the car over there as well. I really thought the seatbelt mod would get a lot of attention. I searched and searched and searched and it was difficult to find a nice thread with all the info on how to safely add 3 points, so I made one, but I got maybe 3 comments? Just about everything else I've done has gotten 1 to 3 comments. I understand if the comments are light in this forum. It's not looked at as often, it's a Mustang on a GM site... etc... so I completely understand if people here aren't as "excited" as I am, but on an actual devoted mustang site?!?!?! Maybe they're all used to barrett jackson and my backyard stuff isn't up to par (the thread I made on this over there has 165 views and no responses)?