Spent a few days on that Mustang now...

Confirmed the front unibody structure to be square. Put the hood on and fitted it. Went around to every panel and corrected gaps by adjusting things. The hatch to roof gap is functional but less than ideal visually. Its fine at the back and shuts good now. The doors were adjusted wrong due to a common mistake but they fit right now. Front bumper fits like they all do, less than perfect. Its comparatively a fairly nice body as FOX Rustangs go these days.

As always, I tackled the worst metal work first. That smashed left rocker from last post. Cut the rivets loose and removed the rusty molding retainer strip. Started out by making holes for a couple decent-size foldover nuts to run bolts through the two deepest indents, and looping a chain off those. Pried against the pinchweld flange to yank that chain down and got most of the huge dent out. Big pry bar. Welded up the carnage from that and tried more using wiggle wire and a Mo-clamp. Tink, comes right off. The trusty Spitznagel dent fix machine helped me do the rest.

This is where it ended up. Keep in mind this does not show, and is not an area of the vehicle where our guy wants to spend a lot of his go-fast stash.so I just got it done without a lot of fussing over perfection. Just plain old quick crash fix on an old car type stuff...









You can tell LED flashlight is not best for bare metal pics. Anyway, yeah this panel should have been replaced, theres still a dent. I offer quick or best or anything in between. Quick is good when you're working on a creeper. A lift or rack would have been right in the way so I jacked up one side.

Laid on some Fibral first, where filler would be deepest- kinda looks like a can of tuna on there lol



Sanded that and did the nasty filler shaping over it, ended up here-





Rough, but it'll do. After that pic, I taped off and added filler to make the ridge at the bottom straight then blocked it all with a 4 ft PVC pipe. Its straight now, need another pic.

On to that cracked floor that was letting the driver's seat sag...

This was the least I could do. Used a Crud Thug on it then Rust Converter. Then ice pick to decide what to cut. Couldn't make it a smaller job, there wasn't enough metal thickness left.

Chop chop



Yeah that top brace is bent up. Rust went under it a little so I did too. This way I'll hide some parts of my seam and also be nicely tied in with the tips of two braces so bonus. This old stuff is THIN!



Before cutting, I made a paper template and formed a patch. Not perfect here either, no need. At least I only made one trip to the brake and eyeball-nailed the angles. Made flanges on the anvil.



Right now I'm about halfway through the welding stage. In some places its like welding steel leaf lol. Been there before many times, its a grind ha ha.



Oh yeah, don't try to borrow that hammer lol