62 Falcon - $5k challenge, how will it rise from the ranger's ashes?

[pintoboy77]

You can't see it under the undercoating and it don't look to bad in the picture.

[BBR]

tick tock time's a wastin'!

[milner351]

Thanks for the reminder. Spent the weekend doing stuff around the house and the mother's day thing..... She's not traveling this week so I should be in the shop every night.... pressure is mounting.

[pintoboy77]

Good luck with that one that leads to a honey do list for me.

[milner351]

Lee's playset is almost assembled, including a new area in the backyard about 18x10 filled with mulch, and edged.... we doubled the size of RHonda's garden last weekend, so my honey-do list points should be pretty high - when the play set is finished that is.

Got quite a bit of work done on the driver's side floor of the falcon last night. The driver side does not fit as well (mustang floor pans) as the passenger side - LOTS of hammering, bending, weld, pound pount, weld weld, pound pound pound..... certainly not going to win any beauty contests, but it will keep your feet off the ground.

[pintoboy77]

Has long as you get some work done in between the honey do's it's progesss. I have to install new A/C in the house this week ours went out at the end of last season so thats my honey do for this week. Good Luck and keep your hammer up.

[milner351]

[STINEY]

Lee is gonna love that! And do I see a boat in there? Awesome!

Making progress.......... what is the small square bar from the rocker under the front subframe heading on towards the tunnel and passenger side? Some temp alignment/location bars welded into keep things together whilst cutting?

[milner351]

YUP - since it's up on the hoist suspended by the subframes - I figured it was cheap insurance to weld those 3/4" square tubes it until I had the new floors in.

I didn't get a pic of the floor partially welded in Monday night before leaving the shop - last night we had enough help to move the play set across the street from the neighbors - so I did that and got it assembled (still needs to be moved slightly, levelled, and tied down) didn't get to the shop last night, and won't be able to tonight either.

I'm seriously considering taking some time off to get some work done.

[pintoboy77]

That floor pan looks pretty good from here. You might want to go to HF and get a big trap if the neighbors did'nt know you got the play set.

[milner351]

welding rusty old metal sucks.
welding the new floor pans (that should actually fit) into the mustang will be cake after this debacle, but these floor pieces were local and cheap - UGLY.

[BBR]

Pretty floor pans are for cars that never get driven.

Keep plugging away! Every little bit is progress!

[STINEY]

You have went from this




To this...... so while you may have cheap and local spot on, I would have to debate you on the ugly. I think you already evicted the "Ugly".



You are making good progress, nice work!

[Russell]

Floors look good from here! how is the motor coming? rear leaf relocate? M2 frontend? AOD? Wiring? Fuel system? Breaks? covering of sheet metal with anti rust stuff? I am glad I am a keyboard racer all that sounds tuff

[bishir]

Looks better than the last floor pans I welded with my 100 dollar welder. ;)