'67 Ford Mustang hardtop

[denman2]

This june a very good frind of me is going to make his biggest mistake in life , he's going to marry.
They will use the Mustang of his father in law, which is a '67 mustang hardtop straight 6.

As we know there is no model of a '67 hardtop, only fastbacks.

So i had to buy two kits to try to make one good one.

First a picture of the Original car.


The kits i'm using:





The progress till now after different mistakes.














Because this car is a six straight, i couldn't use the engine's from the kits.
So i order this from Australia.

[denman2]

Today the postwomen came to my door an delivered me some with a happy end.
Ik opened the package from Down-under and i found a newspaper, a little disapointed i started to read the news ( it could be interesting to read some news from the other side of the world ) and then a small bag fell out of the newspaper.

Filled with some yellow/brown stuff.
A closer insection made me realise it was the engine i ordered.

It looks great, very well casted and a little flash on it.
Only the V-belt is to wide.





At last i have somthing to glue together in stead of sanding

[tonioseven]

Nice progress on it so far!! I'm guessing that the engine came from Michelle at The Parts Box in Australia? They're really great to deal with!!

[denman2]

Tonio, I've bought the engine from a guy who doesn't have a site jet.
I will send a picture of the engine back when it's finished to put on his ( in progres being ) site.

To the Stang.

I put the Gnome to work on the sanding, which ik don't like at this moment.
But it is wors. The whole day on one spot and nothing done.


I made some work on the engine ( photo's made in super-macro)



The engine is very nice detailed and i will put on some ignitionwires.

[tonioseven]

Cool

[firun]

Nice project! Engine seems to be casted without pressure and degasing and there are some bubbles on the surfaces, but it should be fine when fixed.

[denman2]

After a long time, i found some rest to pick up the Stang.

Some progress was made on the engine.
I made the belt a lot smaller and added some ignition wires.


And i finished te work on the body, now i have a '67 hardtop .






Still some sanding to do, but almost ready to put on some primer.

For the engine i need to go to the local hobbyshop to find the right blue.
The two blue paints i've are Revell 50 ( too light ) and Revell 51 ( too dark ).


Next challenge will be to make the open airea in the interieur closed.
Need to close the part behind the backseat en sides of the backseat.

[ataschner]

Great work so far.
IMHO, I think you should have used the entire roof from '66 Mustang kit. The roof from the fastback is much more rounded, as the hardtop is straighter. Just my 2cents ;-)

[SCORPIONFB]

Any advance in this project?.

[jrozz3]

I didn't see it mentioned but I believe that is a 68 Mustang in the original post.

[denman2]

After a long period of personal problems the Mustang is finished.

jrozz3 it's late '67 .

[denilsonvm]

Great work!