Gutted to Glory: Such a long time with little progress ... Blame my job

I just logged in to see my last update to the blog was July 8th. What a horrible revelation... and such an accurate one. Things at work have been crazy all year, but especially as we went into the second half of 2011. There was an pretty critical project going on which I was involved in and was requiring a huge amount of time in the office and out of the office from the team and I in making sure we could hit our delivery of September 23rd.

In the end, we hit the date... and supplied a good product. We found some bugs, solved most, and at this point in time things are operating relatively smoothly. The team was great, most/all that still worked on the project at the end are all top notch individuals who worked well together - in light of separate difficulties that will always come up between individuals. It is amazing what driven people can do.

--Nuff said --

Since July - I haven't been devoid of all things Mustang... quite the contrary. Really it comes down to not having close to the time I hoped to have to do something I enjoy. In August, there was a national Mustang event at the airport Holiday Inn here in Des Moines, put on by the local Mustang Club of Central Iowa. Here I found a '69 coupe which was great to see what a completed project looks like. Here are some pictures:

Yep - thats my Bub. Looking studly in front of the 'fast beep-beep'.

Interesting thing this guy did was remove the fake air scoops that sit behind the doors. Will note this and make a decision later.

Obviously the Grande interior. Mine is standard...but the clean wood-grain interior did look nice. I see more of a console in my future though. Liked the steering wheel, though not sure how the wood trimmed wheel would go in a non-Grande car.

September --------

With the project mostly behind me and the team, my nights began to free up a little bit. So - with that, the next step in my own build is the subframe connectors.

I've had the connecors for well over a year. Bought them from Tin Man Fabrications. They looked beefy and were weld-in. First was sandblasting and then coating them with several layers of Eastwood's Rust Encapsulator. Also fabbed up a floor pan mounting flange which didn't come with the connectors but was recommended in strengthening the floors of the car. Done.

I relaly like how they lay under the car. From side to side they didn't fit exactly the same, though similar. The drivers side took some persuasion from the BFH to get it into position (likely due to an earlier collision in the car's past). But, both sides look good and are going to be with the car the rest of its days.