mustang #1 pictures

BuffaloBFN wrote: Pete, are you bustin my chops again?

Not at all - it's what you had to do to find the Doug Fir in your area. I however do feel that your dads high end staircase background rubbed off on you! That's NOT a bad thing and is certainly evident with your skills!!

BTW, I've got to stop at my hardwood lumber again for some more White Oak. I screwed up ripping the 4th spray rail I'm making for my X55! I'm making 2 for mine and 2 for Craig (64X55). Ripped the shape to the narrow dimension of the bevel instead of the wide dimension. I got sloppy on the 4th piece and wasn't paying attention!

Got in a good day at the mustang.I had the floor pieces cut out for a couple of weeks but I was busy working on the seats until I ruined my last sheet of plywood.So today was spent fitting the pieces. Here are a couple of pictures of my progress.


The short secondary stringers are not glassed in yet so the starboard side are not staying where they are in the picture.Now I can coat with smith's penetrating epoxy.
Tomorrow I will get another sheet of cdx for the seat bases so I can get all that stuff to the upholstery shop.

I put the carpet in on the floor only to save time

That was my first experience with carpet.It wasn't too bad but i'm not sure how to make the joint between floor and sides.
By the way I used the Rustoleum garage floor epoxy for the bilge.It covered good with one coat and seems to be really hard.

Everything went together pretty well considering how long it was apart. All the wires went
on pretty well except for one yellow wire coming out of the harness with a blade connector
that doesn't seem to fit anywhere. The tag was half gone and all I had was the last three letters "ing" .It doesn't reach much past the motor to the front and nothing to the back
It's the wire laying on the port side exhaust.

The tank cleaned up very well.There was a little gunk in the corner under the filler but I was able to get most of it out. I was afraid of corrosion but it looked really good.

Here are a couple of pictures in the water two weekends ago. I gave a friend (the P.O.) a ride and he couldn't stop laughing.He was thrilled to see it back in the water.



It's going to look sweet after it's lettered and striped.I'll get some pictures when it's done.

Hi Bruce. The boat I took to lake george was the reason This mustang didn't get worked on for a couple of years. I sold it so I could devote some time to this one.

Trim wasn't used until 1980.

Looking good Gary!

I think the ship has already sailed on the trim, Gary... It's hard to install after the fact (I'm assuming the floor carpet is already glued down). Just make a nice tight seam when you do the wall carpet, that's how it would have been done in years prior to the trim anyways. I've never tried doing the floors before the walls though- that may be another difficulty!

if you only had one oops you have succeeded   i probably had a hundred.
one of my favorite features of my formula and the first time I've ever had it . Snap in carpet

I just read through this thread from the start. I thought my project took a long time, but you've got me by 6 years or so! Well done, sir!!!

Very nice, can't wait to see it painted and striped.