I was actually thinking about doing a cruise and some pictures on Sunday. So if you want to head out my way, we can kill 2 birds with one stone.
Will be cool, a 69 Camaro, 68 Mustang, and 55 Chevy 
I love the color!
Great build!
Where and when, I think I’d be down :tspry:
Here’s a few shots showing the new exhaust and a better shot of the rear being lowered. The tips of the exhaust aren’t perfectly level to eachother. I’ll be taking these off and trimming them to fit nicer, and to not hang out as much as they currently are. I may also paint them flat black…right now they’re just bare aluminized metal.
Very nice job on this. I saw it at AmTon last week and it was simply gorgeous. I spoke with Dan and he said it was once of the nicest car’s he’s seen in a while.
Time to get back at this thing now that the weather is beginning to break. A majority of the “making it drive” work is over, still have some misc. areas to fix up a bit…like a list of 30 small things. But while those are going on I’ll be concentrating on the interior and the trunk. Last night I started removing some trim work and found a little sketchbook in the backseat so I jotted down a quick sketch of a direction I may want to go with:
Basic idea is to redo the door panels with some kind of suede leather with stitch lines on top, and black carpet on the bottom…seperated by a piece of metal trim. These would continue into the rear seating area. All new gauges would go in the dash board, as well as new dash trim. Build a center console to hold the radio, junk tray, cup holder, etc.
Then in the trunk box it all in, add some hinged doors for storage…possibly inlay some metal with hooks to bungee down luggage as this car will be used for weekend getaways.
When I get some down time I will be cleaning these drawings up and start playing around with color and finishes…but I was rather excited about getting back into the project so I thought I’d share:)
^ I miss doing that sketchy stuff. 
What’s under the aluminum floor? Can you hinge it and place tools or what not under there?
I love sketching out my ideas as well. I like the layout for the trunk.
Keep up the good work.
Interior plans were put on hold rather quickly as I realized I’m short of a few parts to accurately put this together. First issue was the carpet is all mix-matched rolls that overlap, this was causing all sorts of problems with measuring for clearances on the center console…so a new one piece unit was ordered and currently on backorder. Also, needed gauges and some trim work…gauges arrived, trim work on it’s way.
So I got started with the gauges. First up was the fuel gauge as I had to remove the tank to fix a leak from a bad seal. Long story short, the Stewart Warner gauge was a 240-30 ohm range, while the Eckler’s sending unit with sensor operated at 0-30 ohms. Couldn’t find a way to mate these two ranges through electrical trickery, so I decided to get to the fab work.
I had an extra sending unit to use as a constant reference point for sensor and float orientation:
Stock sensor gutted as I needing only the mounting plate:
Stock unit, stock unit gutted, SW sensor ready to be mounted to gutted stock unit:
All mounted up, ~30 ohms at “full”:
~240 ohms “empty”:
My card got full so I didn’t get a chance to snap pics of the float, but that was just a matter of needing and trimming the wire to match. Now I can run the sending unit for the EFI, and the gauges that I wanted:)
Awesome build man! I am impressed.
This car looks amazing, you did everything right and just wow looks great.
Can’t wait to see more progress…
I think this is one of my all time favorite ideas:
OT - What is going on with your Fox?
Nice Mike. Keep going! 
Weather changes soon so we can meet up and cruise
ugh, i have to do something similar to my sending unit. 0-90ohms vs 5v …poo
looks good
Wow, I’m way behind with posting progress…I’ll try to catch back up here.
With the fuel tank out I thought it would be a good time to coat it with 3M rubberized undercoating, note the crazy bend in the fuel line. This is to get around the tank strap and some misc. crap under the floor pan where the external pump is mounted.
Headers started doing their discoloring thing…so those came back out.
High temp exhaust primer…
Don’t have a direct pic yet…but I then painted them flat black with high temp paint.
Also got a Lokar firewall mounted trans dipstick. Ended up needing to mount it on the fuse box due to access around the header which is quite close to the fireall and was in the way. Made a small bracket for this in the event it needed to be easily removed.
Many more pics coming up later today…
Now onto the interior. Started with painting the dash…before it was pretty much a spray can job with some runs, dust, and a nice dull finish.
Scuffed it up…
Primer…
PPG single stage dark graphite paint…went down sooooo nicely.
To get the Bel Air style dash trim to accept the gauges I needed some holes poked out. Thanks to the wire EDM at work (and a friends help) I had 4 precisely cut holes:) Here’s a piece of aluminum that was used as a brace under the thin trim piece to keep it supported while being cut:
EDM in progress…
Finished product mocked up onto the dash…holes were cut out of the dash and the trim was then permanently mounted up.
Next up was modifying the stock cluster to accept the speedometer and tachometer. Started with some styrene that needed to be trimmed to match the clear lens.
Next was the piece that holds it all in place (the black piece on the right).
Interference…
Trimmed out.
Painted and mounted. Not shown yet are the lights that fill the 4 holes for turn signal, high beam indicator, and check engine light.
Onto the stock cardboard kick panels.
Carpet, glue, some cuts…
Installed
And pretty much where the interior is today…with exception to the 4 guages which I’m in process of wiring up (in this pic they’re just resting in place), also the new carpet is now fully in place.
I had forgotten about this build. Looking great!
I’ve forgotten what it has been like to drive it!!! I’ve been getting a little carried away with the crafty details…but in the end it will be worth it. Man this stuff takes a lot of time!
Luke L, sorry I overlooked your question earlier about the Mustang. Currently it’s still in storage, and will stay there until this car is done. Once it’s back home with me, I’m hoping to swap an IRS into it…still trying to work out those details as I’m swapping my 8.8 det-up with someone who has the IRS.