65 mustang, PLEASE HELP!!!!!

[style]

Customer brought me a 65 mustang for complete resto, my bodyman/mechanic stripped the car and gutted everything it was then treated like a chicken and ceramic beads blasted its feathers off as it turned so I have a shell,doors front clip differential engine and tranny and all rechromed trim,door panels, dash and about 600 bolts car is primed..... Well my bodyman shot himself on sunday, so now what,anybody know where to start,I know nothing about this car or what its even supposed to look like except for some bad photos I saw on ebay.... Damn it... Please? Anybody?... Pretty please... Do I just grab a bolt and try and see where it might fit or what... I mean I'm not completly stupid I know where the steering wheel goes and I know the motor goes in the front,right,I think,cause that's where I'm puttin it...lol..

[RyanBayles]

my advice to you would be to get a complete manual on the car and wish for the best or hire someone who knows about the car to come assemble it.

[cmayna]

I see "LOL" at the end of your paragraph. Does this mean you're not serious? If you are serious, I suggest you find a local Mustanger and hire them to assemble the car for you. Where are you located?

[Ray62406]

I see "LOL" at the end of your paragraph. Does this mean you're not serious? If you are serious, I suggest you find a local Mustanger and hire them to assemble the car for you. Where are you located?

Agreed, if you are near Kansas City I could probably help you get things organized so you really know where to put things lol...

[RyanBayles]

I worked on a 67 Cougar which is almost the same as a mustang except the front clip, they go together fairly easily, if you know where all of the bolts go, a little advice for the next time you completely disassemble a car is to get some sandwich bags and label your bolts by location and part. It takes more time but i have gone as far as to write numbers on each bolt in the bag and make myself a little quick sketch of where the bolts go, I do this because most of the cars i have worked on have different length bolts for body mounting and it takes the guessing out of it and it makes it alot faster to assemble.

I wished i need to get in touch with the fellow about the car, this was about 3 years ago and he hasnt called me back about getting around to painting it after he dropped the engine and tranny in it Ive heard he hasnt touched it since i did the work and i would love to have it for myself.. I did all the body work, the guy wanted everything shaved i mean everything, which i wouldnt have done to such a rare car if it was mine.

[Phil V]

screw the car ! what about the bodyman ? Accident ? Intentional ?

[style]

screw the car ! what about the bodyman ? Accident ? Intentional ?

Well, he worked putting stripes on a I don't know hmm think its a 70 mustang shelby gt500 maybe 71 anyways after stripes he went home and had dinner with his wife of 14years they went to bed he went down on her licking away and when he put his fingers in her he found a condom well, they never used condoms so he punched her in her um area and grabbed her by the throat and tossed her out/through the 3rd story window of their town home then he got in her lexus with a shotgun and pulled the trigger in the drivers seat... he left me 4cars all apart like this and that's the deal 69 camaro 93cobra 77 vette conv and the worst of all the mustang wich seems to be missing half the bolts... Kinda like its bodyman that worked on it... I paid for his funeral he has no family and his wife is paralized...

[Dennis N. Schmidt]

And how did we know all of this charming detail since he's dead and therefore unlikely to be able to tell the details of this fascinating story. I've always hated rubbers!!

[Phil V]

Little more information than I was looking for -- but I guess thats life. If you can't do the work yourself ('65 mustang) then hire a bodyman that can. Maybe a single bodyman ?

No woman is worth blowing your brains out over.

[style]

And how did we know all of this charming detail since he's dead and therefore unlikely to be able to tell the details of this fascinating story. I've always hated rubbers!!

Well since I'm his supervisor they came to ask me questions, and that's what the police report reads,now were getting off the sub here anyone know where I might be able to get a copy of some kinda repair manuel for a 65 I figure there pretty common so someones gotta have one.....

[Steve g]

Come on guys, this is the kid that started the thread asking how to polish headlights and then was going to show Robert how to polish cars.

Then he had some wild storey about a customer's car that had to be ready and was being picked up at 4 a.m. with the long storey about the guy being Mexican police and bodies in the trunk and blah blah blah.

I'm going to watch Boston Legal and get my fiction there.

Steve g

[style]

And how did we know all of this charming detail since he's dead and therefore unlikely to be able to tell the details of this fascinating story. I've always hated rubbers!!

Well since I'm his supervisor they came to ask me questions, and that's what the police report reads,now were getting off the sub here anyone know where I might be able to get a copy of some kinda repair manuel for a 65 I figure there pretty common so someones gotta have one.....

[Steve g]

Buy a manual

[Phil V]

Steve, this is the same guy whose shop is in the middle of restoring a 1965 Mustang, a 1969 Camaro, a 1993 Cobra replica and a 1977 Corvette convertible ------ and he's worried about a $300 gas bill at home ???????

[joedirt216]

Texas Mustang, Blue Oval Industries..........both should have manuals, and resonably priced.