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This automatic convertible comes to us with numerous problems and awful body lines indicating problems
  This arrives with a lot of bad body lines
  GT exhaust spiffs up the rear view
  Right side view
  Engine compartment looks nice with the 289 resting in it
  Preparing the body to be stripped
  Stripping has started
  Stripping reveals some body work in the door and poorly replaced quarter panels
  We have started repairing the problems with the quarters
  This is a shot of the outer wheel house where it meets the quarter panel. They are not attached together. This is necessary for structural integrity, especially on a convertible.
  Same problems on the driver side
  The top keeps getting damaged when it is put down. It appears that the wrong wheelhouses  were installed. Tin foil was apparently laid here to soften the blow.... or was it?
  Well, here we go. The tin foil has bubble wrap in it. We found it was used not to keep the top from getting damaged but to be a backing for the excessive amount of sealer that was shoved into large holes in the wheel houses.
  Here is some of the gap once the bubble wrap and tin foil was removed.
  The underside view once the sealant was removed.
  Top view as the sealant is removed
  More atrocities reveled in the wheel house area.
  We have welded the wheel houses together and flattened the ridge to eliminate the top lowering problems.
  Here is what the patches were hiding. One can put their hand in there.
  Front sheet metal has been primed and is being hung. We will have to edge all of it color soon.
  Rear view of the Mustang in primer
  Block sanding of the body has begun
  Painted, wet sanded and polished along with a new convertible top.
  New turquoise carpeting really spiffs up the interior
  
  
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