Since we last checked in with Project Resolution we had a lot of goals and plans of action on how we were going to repair and restore the car. Since then, things have changed quite a bit! Sometimes we think this should be called “Project Surprise”! We’re constantly finding that the car has a lot of hidden damage and surprises that are much worse than initially anticipated.
Tag: Restore 1989 Ford Mustang
Project Resolution- Paint Stripping and Final Teardown
We’ve been working on Project Resolution now for a few months and we’re finally at a point where we are ready to start going uphill making the car nice again. With the front end removed I was able to remove the inner fender “skirt” and assess the damage that was […]
Project Resolution Phase 3 Teardown
Since our last post we’ve been busy working on disassembling the car down to just a rolling shell. This meant we had to removed the entire drivetrain and start deciding if we were going to keep the original or get a replacement engine. The engine and transmission came out pretty […]
Project Resolution Becomes a Shell
We’ve been VERY busy since our last update. We’ve decided that the best way to fix the body damage in the inner fender was to remove the 5.0 engine from the Mustang. As we dug in we found all sorts of holes drilled in that side of the engine bay […]
Let the Teardown begin- Front End Disassembly
Recently we reintroduced you to our fox body Mustang we’ve named “Project Resolution“. We finally got a chance to start tearing the car down and really see how bad the hidden accident damage was. We all agreed this is one of the more scary parts of working on an older […]
2013 Eastwood New Years Resolution- Reintroducing our Project Ford Mustang
A while back, we talked about a “Fox Body” Ford Mustang that we picked up off of the local Craigslist with plans of using it to test products and eventually “restore” it. Since then, we’ve used it for testing of new products and for a tech video where we restored the original […]