Mav1970's Insane 69.5 Street Project

I'm only using a kero heater right now - you can't travel too far from it and, no matter how warm it can really get the garage, I'm still standing on the concrete floor which holds the cold

Take it easy on that neck

 

I had to change the battery on my wifes Trailblazer which died last night. At least it got up to 15 degrees today! The battery was so dead we couldn't get the key out of the ignition. You believe that? My Ford truck has been sitting for two weeks and i went out started it right up and looked at her and said Ford Tough.......I won't say what she did! Lol.....

 

Some time i will have real heat in the garage!!!!

 

Nice work Bob! Ur build is coming along vry nicely. I can understand the hands/feet being cold after being in the garage for 3+hrs. I have not bn out of the house today - workin inside on my other hobbies. Not doing anything to the Comet until spring - execpt driving it.
Is ur Stang steering col a tilt unit? Have not heard of anyone here using one!
Ur day's in stock car's are paying off - IMO - There's very little, if any, substitue for experience..

 

I appreciate all of the positive comments

Not a 69 Mustang tilt column, Everett, but there were quite a few of them for sale on Ebay when I found my solid column. The Tilt colums were commanding a pretty penny used. I'm thinking a tilt column might fit just fine as all of my stock Maverick mounting brackets transferred right over to the solid 69 stang column. Even the outer tube was identical to the Maverick one.

I figured that you could relate to the cold weather with you being in Chicago. Getting that last u joint, in the mail needed to complete the column, drove me to work through the cold today

 

Looks like it should work good.....

 

nice work...

I think all of them..."come close"...

 

Specially when some of "us" insist on putting engines in frame rails that don't belong there -------------------------

 

Once again, very nice work !

 

I asked Stefan to merge the threads for me on my 69.5 build since 2007 into a more official project thread so I won't need to create a new thread in the General section everytime I decide to get off my butt and do something. I'll just add to this one from now on.

Thanks for any interest you have in my project, Bob

 

I have a 4 link rear in my car and the top two link bars have to stick through the rear floor boards so I cut clearence slots in the floor up so the links can bolt up to the new front crossmember that also contains the top section of the driveshaft hoop. I am planning on being able to have full use of my back seat so I needed first to built protective covers over the top links. I began with making 2 upright pieces, out of 14 gauge hot rolled steel for either side of the two slots tack welding them into place. I then added top covers to the side pieces. I had already removed all of the bottom upolstry from the spring frame and test fit it over the bare top link bars. The last photo shows some of the cutting of the seat frame that had to be done to clear the link covers.

 

Looks awesome!

 

Thanks, Rusty

 

That is cool that the upper links will be hidden by the rear seat.

Food for thought ... LDO rear seat foam is about an inch thicker in height than the standard stuff. Might get a passenger a bit further away from bottoming on those covers. Probably wouldn't matter if it is a kid back there, but might help if it was a bigger guy going along for a ride. Might not happen either way ...

Nice that you have all this merged into one project thread. This car and your work deserve that, and I am sure that it will inspire a lot of folks. I know that it motivates me to see great builds like this and those of several other guys here.

 

Well thanks Jeff. I appreciate your comments. I got tired of looking for the little seperate threads, to refer to, when someone would ask me about one small part of the build. This merge is much better.

I stole the "top links through the floor" idea from Terri Brigham when her hot pink Maverick was being built. It is somewhat a copy of her Art Morrison design. I saw the pictures of Terri's top link covers, and she commented on how she would have liked to retain the rear seat, so I just mentioned to her to maybe have her builder try to cut and rebracket the bottom seat frame to clear the covers. I never saw photos of the final solution but it worked and Terri told me that she really would have to bounce on the seat bottom to feel the covers. Actually the closest a passenger comes to the covers is right where the back of the seat is mounted, not where most of your weight is. I'll keep that LDO padding thought in mind but I still need to use my 70 upolstry :Handshake