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With no keys, I first had to drill out the tumblers in the locking cylinder of the ignition switch so I could get the steering wheel unlocked, and actually steer the car around.\u00a0 Once that was completed, we pushed the Mustang into a stall at the GAFB Auto Hobby Shop and started walking around it.\u00a0 I asked my pal Jim what I should start with, and he said, “A tetanus shot.”\u00a0 (OK – that was funny.\u00a0 Props to Jim on that one)<\/p>\n

First things first, open the hood and start working on getting the grille, bumper, and fenders off to see what’s going on.\u00a0 The bumper came off by the brackets on the frame, since I had no idea how to remove them from the bumper itself.\u00a0 Then I could pull out the grille.\u00a0 All that stuff on the floor is rust – it was snowing rust every time I’d hit a bolt with the impact wrench.\u00a0 I think I swept up the floor a half dozen time before the day was done.\u00a0 Since one of the hood hinges had a broken (OK – missing) spring, I decided to take the hood off once I liberated the bumper – OK, I got tired of banging my head on it, too.<\/p>\n

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Surprisingly, there was still some anti-freeze in the radiator… or at least, I kept telling myself that’s what it was.\u00a0 Once I got the fenders off, I saw a lot more ugly underneath.\u00a0 This is gettin’ serious now.<\/p>\n

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I first attempted to open the trunk using some extensions on a ratchet to simply remove the trunk latch from the inside of the trunk.\u00a0 With no fold-down seat, this quickly proved to be a lot harder than it sounded.\u00a0 Frustrated, I simply grabbed the trunk lid and ripped it open – Holy Cow!\u00a0 That was too easy.\u00a0 Yeah, the inner surfaces of the trunk lid were all but rusted away.\u00a0 Once the trunk was open, I found a LOT of rust – and even some daylight showing through from areas it wasn’t supposed to.\u00a0 Great.<\/p>\n

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So now I’m quietly thinking, “What have I gotten myself into?”\u00a0 But outwardly [to everybody looking on] I’m saying, “All of this sheet metal is replaceable – so no big deal.”\u00a0 Wait – WTF is that piece of angle iron with the chains bolted to it for?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With no keys, I first had to drill out the tumblers in the locking cylinder of the ignition switch so I could get the steering wheel unlocked, and actually steer the car around.\u00a0 Once that was completed, we pushed the Mustang into a stall at the GAFB Auto Hobby Shop and started walking around it.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather","category-mach1"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77,"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions\/77"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}