Front End and Engine compartment dissassembly

 Besides the interior, I have been also working on the front end and engine compartment.  Extra care must be taken as I do not plan on doing the body work and paint.  Since it still looks pretty nice despite being a 25 year old paint job, I decided to preserve it as is.  Besides, I plan on driving the car so I don't want to worry about chips and dings.  Heck I already had a minor casualty when a piece of wood dropped on the fender and made a small chip in the paint. (Hence why I wanted a bigger garage to do this in!!)

Original Mach 1 grill in fantastic shape.  If you scrape the black paint you can still see the original Argent.

Fenders off!

Original Buck Tag on the right in the location for Metuchen built cars.  Small tag on the left is the axle tag that had broken off when we first restored car.  Thought that would be a good place for it!  Stayed for 25 years!

Engine compartment had the only changes done to it in the 15 years of outside ownership.  While I believe it to be the original build, certain things like the MSD ignition, valve covers, holley 750 and long tube headers were added.  Oh yeah, and no thanks to the hacker previous owner who cut a hole in the hood for the air cleaner!  

Small rust issue in that battery box area will have to be taken care of!

Fenders ready to be put in storage

Miscellaneous Trim Pieces

Box of parts that will soon grow into a very large box of parts.  All will be sand blasted and powder coated satin black, natural gray or whatever color I need.  If it fits in the oven, it will be powder coated!

Several boxes of hardware bagged and tagged.