I am a couple weeks late starting this blog as I moved the car to my house on New Year's Day, 2015. So there has been some progress on dis-assembly since then. I have removed most of the interior as well as front fenders and considerable amount or engine compartment components. Removal of parts is going really well. Its definitely nostalgic and a bit like time traveling as I am actually removing parts off the car that I had originally installed almost 25 years ago. From the reupholstered Mach 1 interior that my grandmother helped me with, the carpet that held a 45 year old surprise underneath to the nylon wire braiding that I got from my first job in high school and used on my wiring harness long before it became popular to do so. Here are the pics of the first couple weeks of tinkering.
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| In my Dad's garage where its been for about 5 years ready to get "pushed" out |
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| Loaded up on the trailer for the short drive to my house |
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| Getting pushed into my garage |
Having removed and reinstalled the interiors of both my Mach 1s several times, I can pretty much do it in my sleep. Here I am starting by removing the seats.
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| Yes, thats a bunch of mice turds. Thankfully they didn't chew through anything important like the carpet or headliner. (or seats for that matter!) |
So after removing the carpet, I was pleasantly surprised to learn that we had never removed the original sound deadener from the floors when we had put that new carpet in way back. I immediately thought of two things. The bad thing being rust and the good thing being an original factory build sheet hiding somewhere. I already knew I had rust on the drivers side as some was starting to rear its ugly head on the undercarriage.
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| Final Piece of deadener. Would there be anything hiding underneath?? |
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| Yes! There it lay after 45 years. You would think I had found a lost copy of the Constitution! It was quite an exciting find. |
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It was in remarkably good shape considering how long it had been sitting there. Build sheets were made out of a fairly rugged paper. It did have the typical grease stains from sitting underneath that nasty deadener. My next post will be a how-to on cleaning that right up!
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As expected, some nasty rust was found on the driver's side. A little more than I would have liked to see. Especially that gaping hole! That original deadener was good at retaining moisture so wet feet, leaky windshield, would have kept that floor wet and in turn contributed to growth of that nasty tin worm. Guess I'll have to brush up on my welding skills.
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| The floor pan itself looks worse in this picture than it really is. Still probably thinned out more than my liking. |
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| That friggin hole in the firewall above the torque box was a shocker. Fortunately, the torque boxes look great. Gonna be a fun fix. |
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| Driver side rear not much better. What you cant see is the floor pan is split completely through at the back of the seat pan. Complete driver side floor pan or patch it? |
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| Passenger side floor on the other hand looks like its from a different car! Its gorgeous! I'll probably just clean it out and coat it with clear. |
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| Just very minor surface rust here. No concerns on this side. Amazing the difference. |
Dash had definitely been removed during its time with other owners. I definitely would not have applied that nasty duct tape job!
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| Proof I didn't do that nasty tape job as that's a micro fiber cloth! Something we didn't have back in the late 80s! |
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| Another hack job of taping the original sport lamp switch together. Luckily these are reproduced at a reasonable price! |
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