My '72 Grabber build thread

I picked up one of those mustang repair panels earlier this week and tonight I made it fit! I sandblasted the old cowl where I was going to weld and started welding it in. This is what I got done before I got tired and quit for the night. It was about an hour and a half worth of work.

 

Looks good, make sure you get it as smooth as you can then use seam sealer on the ring and all your welds...

 

Will do...

 

I had to work off and on yesterday so I only got a little done on the maverick. I got the whole cowl area sandblasted. There are alot of pinholes! Hopefully today I will be able to finish the patch and repair all of the holes and get a coat of POR15 on it and maybe even some urethane primer on the upper cowl panel. I can't wait to get the first bit of color on this car! I have decided to use panel adhesive to re-attach the upper cowl. I'm wondering if I can bond the two panels together if I use POR15 on the seam area. Just wondering if the panel adhesive will stick to the POR15. I'm pretty sure you can panel bond to that factory black primer that comes on new panels. And I don't think you're going to get anything that will stick better to bare metal than POR15.

 

Holy god... Seeing that cowl makes me want to go outside and rip out mine to check. I poked into it with a flash light and it seemed 100% solid. How was the rust in the rest of the car? My car/project had just surface rust in the floor, and cleaned up well when the car was sandblasted. Im fairly confident I have zero rust throughout the car now, but that scares me what I cannot see :S

 

The rest of the car is very clean. The floors had some surface rust and a couple of really small holes and that's it. I blame the rusty cowl on the mice. Filthy animals made nests in there and they urinate where they sleep.

 

I got all of the patch work on the lower cowl panel completed today and got a coat of POR15 on it. I also got the passenger door paint all stripped off and the grabber stripes stripped off of the whole car.

 

I got a little bit done tonight on the cowl. I put a coat of urethane primer on the top of the lower cowl panel and top and underside of the upper cowl panel. Now I have to wait until it's not so humid to give it a coat of Grabber Green enamel before I can bond it back onto the car. I can't wait to get past this cowl because the rest of the bodywork is simple!

 

Nice work!

 

All the work is worth it when it now looks this good

 

I got the Grabber Green on the cowl pieces tonight. Now I can get the top half glued on this weekend for sure. I'm really hoping the weather will cooperate this weekend. I have to paint the hood and cowl on my sons fox mustang and I'm doing it outside. Thanks DDB and mav1970. The cowl work is no masterpiece but it doesn't show and it won't leak and that's the important part.

 

Nice job! Great color choice too...

 

...with your skills and motivation you'll be there in no time...nice work!

 

Grabber Green is a color I've been looking at too.... Looks great

 

Really good work - function and sealed is all that area needs. Good work!
But its so ....
GREEN!
I guess that is why they make so many different colors - not everyone likes the same ones.