Michael's feature car restoration

Michael has begun restoring his triple white feature car. He has agreed to provide us with regular updates through this web page.

March 23, 2006

Hello, I don't have time to send all pics and descriptions but i just wanted you to see these because I am exited. As you can see I spent alot of time block sanding so it is super straight.

 

February 28, 2006

Here are a few pics for you to see. I haven't had much time as I am working on the car nonstop and don't have a lot of time.

I have provided a pic of the vin tag. I am also providing some pics of the body work and the interior.

Bodywork:

If you notice there is bodywork all around the doors. This I believe was done at the factory. Most likely from a tech to get the body panels to line up better. Usually there is guy with a hammer and block of wood and he will "fix" any gaps with a few light wacks getting the panel edges to line up better.

The 1/4 panel was pretty mangled and maybe should have been changed. These are mostly dents from people not paying attention.

The fender had a large dent in the front that I picked out use a paintless dent repair. Very tedious

Interior:

Thrashed!!! It will require more work than the outside. You can notice none of the whites match at all. I also noticed some of the black trim was painted even though it was molded in black. Whether this was done at the factory or at the dealer I don't know. Why they would try to match the blacks and leave the whites I have no idea. I will be vinyl painting the entire interior as soon as I find a white I am comfortable with. The Dupont 'oxford white' vinyl paint is way too gray. I have provided a pic of that.

I will try to provide more some time this week I have a ton of pics. just no time to describe them

February 21, 2006

I am the second owner. I bought it in late summer of 94. I was not really a big fan of late model mustangs. My family used to fix up and sell 1st generation mustangs in the 80's and I owned a 66, but when I saw the yellow feature I definitely took notice. I tried looking for one but used ones were hard to find and when I did they wanted top dollar. In a few instances people were asking more than dealer price for a used one.

I started looking at the triple whites. I found this one in the wanted ad press. At the time it was NJ's number one auto trade paper. I bought it at Dover Chrysler on rt 10. It had 20,000 miles and it was not perfect but it was nice. The first thing I did was paint the rims and moldings. They were already starting yellow and it bothered me the interior was the same way but I left it alone. the color difference between the seats, door panels and the rest of trim was almost comical and is something I will be fixing during the restoration.

After a couple of years I started to neglect the poor thing. Getting married and taking care of a house just did not afford the time. About two years ago it stopped running, about the time my daughter was born. A couple of weeks ago I said to myself I either have to get it running or junk it. I searched the internet for some answers. I don't like bringing my cars to mechanics I don't trust them. Anyway I found a post with someone who had a similar problem as mine. I pushed the car in the garage and cleaned the mass air flow sensor. WOW now it runs better then the day I bought it. I immediately started taking the whole thing apart. I have almost finished the body work but I will start to take pics and send descriptions of what was done.

I will answer any questions any one has. Any suggestions would be appreciated.