This isn't going to be much of a post as it is still cold, wet and snowy. Which means that I still cannot get back to the metal work on the car. Instead I pulled out the old doors and pulled everything off of them that I could even possibly consider reusing. I ended up being a little disappointed as a lot of stuff was missing. You'll see how much in the pics. At this point I might just replace everything for the doors since there was so little hardware there to begin with. I used
Alex's guide to taking the doors apart, it helped me find a couple of those fiddly little things.
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| Driver's side door latch, and various rods and the handles. |
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| The window out of the driver's side. |
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| Looking inside the passenger side door, you can see the bottom of the chrome for the window with broken glass inside of it. |
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| Better shot of the remainder of the passenger window. |
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| I had the vent window on the passenger side, but no vent window on the driver's side. Of course I also have the driver's window, but no passenger window. I guess it makes things even. |
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| Vent window removed. |
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| Passenger window hardware, didn't have a driver's side. |
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| Empty window chrome. At least I still have it. |
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| Another piece of the window hardware. |
On another note, I was on ebay (I search through those listing several times a week) when I ran across this fold down seat. Now I didn't have one with the car and so I have always been a little worried about where I would find one, and I really didn't want to have to pay the repop prices. Well, needless to say I won the auction for this 65 seat and now here it is sitting on my living room floor. It cost me a fraction of the price for the repop, and after I refurbish it, it will still have cost me less. What's that you say? It's a 65? Don't you have a 67? Well the good news is, that I can modify the fold down seat to fit into my 67 pretty easily as all the rear seats from 65-70 are all the same dimensions. Pretty cool, huh? Maybe I'll work on this while the weather still sucks for me. There is a great site about these seats, you can find it here
http://www.folddownseat.com/
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| Top of seat. Covers will be replaced. |
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| Bottom of seat, that padding is looking pretty worn. I think replacement is in order. |
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| Seat back. |
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| Other side of seat back. |
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| Back part of the fold down portion. |
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| From the back side. |
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| Top part of fold down. |
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| Other side. |
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| All the pieces. |
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| In the seated position. |
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| In the fold down position, just imagine that the bottom part is under the sections. |
Grant, Looks like you sanagged a good deal on the back seat. The chrome looks to be in good condition from the pictures. Unfortunately, the foam for the read seat isn't available for the fastback, unless someone started reproducing it in the last year. I'm going to use Alex's door blog for the disassembly and assembly of my doors when I get to them. The doors look pretty good on the inside. Keep the process going, even if it's only little steps at a time.
ReplyDeleteThose doors are both not worth the effort of reskinning. To much rust in the corners, and some structural damage on the driver's door. I found a set that doesn't need any major work done, for half the price of skinning the old ones. As for the seat, I can make my own cushioning out of upholstery foam from the craft store. I'm even thinking about using the old covers as a template and sewing my own. The chrome isn't bad, I might look into seeing if there is a local chromer I can have the trim redone at.
DeleteDarn it Grant, it's a bummer that you're missing so much door hardware. Good deal on the seat though! I hate to contradict Dennis, but the only rear seat foam that is available is the fastback foam so you're good to go!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.cjponyparts.com/seat-foam-rear-seat-fastback-1967-1968/p/SF18/
OR TMI: http://www.cjponyparts.com/tmi-seat-foam-rear-fastback-1965-1970/p/SF40/
Since I know that I am missing stuff, I can slowly acquire what I need in order to fill in the gaps to spread out the cost. Did that with the sheet metal, and I have 90% of what I need there. It's just one more way in which the car resists it's transformation back into a mustang. Also I thought I had seen the foam at CJP, just hadn't actually gone looking.
DeleteWell, that is good news for me. When I looked a couple of years ago, only the front seats were available. Since mice did a job on my seats from the previous owner's outside storage, my foam has sections chewed out. Thanks for the link Alex!
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