Mustang Archaeology

[Steve]

This is a Mustang thread, but not an SSP Mustang thread. But it may be of interest to some because it is a restoration and is still a Mustang.
In November of 2019, as my '82 SSP 0255 was nearing completion, I visited it at my buddy's body shop and was poking around in the boneyard behind the shop. Lots o old cars, car parts, junk. I noticed the shell of a 65 Mustang. I was looking at it when my buddy walked up and said "That's a 64 1/2 Mustang". I replied that I could see it was an early one and I always did like those 65 Mustangs. I was 8 years old when I saw them and always liked them and wanted to have one. He said "You want this one? You can have it...no cost". I said, well, the only thing is, it looks more like archaeology than restoration. The shell was stripped of everything except for the drive train and 4 wheels. He said he had most of the stuff that was taken off in storage in various areas of the shop. I then asked if I could do the work there, as with 0255, and he said yes. I pulled the car out of there, took all of the junk, car hood, etc. that were piled on top, cleaned the junk out inside, and vacuumed it out. The three pics below are what it looked like.