Project rediculous

Well.. it's been awhile.. so I thought I would update you on progress. Visually, the car doesn't appear to have made much progress, but alot of these sections have taken quite a bit of work to get them to where they are, and I have a bunch of shaped parts sitting around ready to go on still.

This is the new rear wheel well. All welded in and ready to go. It was a serious PITA to do. First, we cut a big opening for the new well. The opening was so big that it opened up the body where the inner well is spot welded to the outer body. To fix this I had to cut small filler strips of steel and weld it shut again. Then we formed the new well, and welded it in. The well is oversized so that we can just fit the side panel to it, and then cut it back down to size.



And another view from below:



And this is the rear panel of the car. Not done by a long shot, and just held in for fitting purposes with clamps. This gives you an idea of how the rear lights and plate will mount. Also in these pictures you can see the new trunk lid.





If you are wondering, yes, the original plan was to do this in fiberglass. However, doing the rear window and other sections gave me so much practice with metalwork, that I'm now confident enough with the hammer to tackle an all-steel body.

 

You think I should keep the 4lug? I've been bouncing ideas around there trying to figure out what wheels to get for awhile now. I'm not sure yet if I should swap to 5lug or not. You apparently know of some wheel that would work.. if so, what? Otherwise I was thinking of spacers. I definately want to keep them in the 15-17" range.

I actually assumed from the reasearch I've done that I would need to go to 5lug to get a wider wheel back there.

 

Really? Huh.. Which year mustang?