I will take a look today! thanks for the info. the interrior is going to be the hardest thing to find in affraid.

thanks again
Jusitn

Thanks everyone! I think I will have another go at it this weekend. See if I can get cought up with ted and get the 87 and 88 painted at the same time. Its a long shot but here we go...

good find!
 

I found this place about a month and a half back. That place is a mustang honeyhole. It was sad to see that SVO sitting back there too. The 93 cobra inside was nice. I think I left some drool on it, LOL. Can't believe I missed this car! Good luck with the resto.

Great find.
 

Great find. Congrats on saving this car. We all thank you for your efforts.

:2thumbs:

Any new progress on this car? I would like to see some pics if you got em. :)

GREAT SAVE !!! I'd love to stumble across one like that!!!!

WOW! That's a lot less car than I'd want to bring home. Progress is going quickly. That's great.

Just curious - any more updates or progress on this TX DPS?

Awesome save too!!

X2

There is Tan Interior down here in Houston from a Salvaged 88 Tx DPS car. Look at the post from earlier.

Tom

Any more progress...

Wow, cool find. I hope I start with something a little more, ahem, complete! Great work so far on bringing this one back. Very inspirational.

There has not been a lot of progress I'm sorry to say.... Until Friday! We pulled the car back out and into the shop and have been going hard on it. We now have a Donner car to complete the build and have already have begun replacing the fender aprons, core support and straightening the frame rails. We hope to have the body in primer later this week. I will post some pics of the progress asap.

Thanks for all the comments and support!

Can't wait !!! :-)

x2 :-D

As promised here are some pics from when we started at 9am this morning.

And Here is our progress three hours into it at 12pm. I will keep everyone updated as best as possible and try to get some better pics up soon. We have a car sitting outside waiting to donate the good parts except it snowed last night and the car doesn't roll so we need to try to get that car inside and start removing the core support and fender aprons. I guess it will be a bit more body work for today.

Final progress report for today. Got the donor car in the shop and got the core support and fender aprons cut out. Prepped and getting fitment correct.

Thumbs up!!!! Looking great!!! Keep the pics coming:-)

Looks like you may have done this a time or two before ? LOL
Looking good !
Thanks for the pics !

Had to make sure that things were headed in the right direction so we added fenders and hood to sure we were on the right track. Coming together nicely! All in a days work!

Super excited things are coming together so well!

Nope! This is the first go! Been scared of it for sometime now. Had to pop our cherry but couldn't have asked for things to go better. Have seen many ppl tackle this before but never had the nerve! A good donor surely helps!

Your doing a great job! Especially for first time!
I love seeing one brought back from a "basket case". You here the phrase "great save" all the time but to me when ones brought back from what most people consider a goner then that's what I call a "GREAT SAVE!"...

GREAT JOB!!!!
Keep going it's gonna be well worth it :-)

Thanks! We're excited about it too! It seems to be going fairly well. We hope to have it back on the road some what soon. I already have the running and driving donor waiting to be tore down after we get all the repairs and body work done.

I just wanted to post up our progress from yesterday. I was going to work out the dents in the cowl (guessing hood came up) but it was pretty well mangled and we had a perfectly good one our donor car so off they came.

After getting everything mocked up and checking fitment of all the new parts we went ahead and started tacking welds. Also set door to check the body lines. Looks like things are lining up rather nicely! :D

Oh and couldn't forget about the spot light :2thumbs:

Very nice work!! Love to see a car like this being brought back. We've got to save as many of these as possible while we still can!

Thanks Chris! Ted and I are making a big push to bring this one back to life ASAP!

I heard that!!!!

My 86 will be next :)

Great progress on the car. Looks like a fairly solid car to begin with. Keep up the good work sir(s)

Nice job ! Amazing to be able to do that, especially for the first time !
I can't wait to see it finished !
Looking really good !

Looks like your plan is coming together very nicely...great thread, keep 'em coming! :thumbsup:

Last night was very productive as well. Went ahead and replaced the outer core support skin. Again the old one was mangled and could have been used and held a radiator but why leave it when we just so happened to have a brand new one sitting in the shed.

Everything has lined up very well and has been tack welded. We will be spending the next day or so filling in all the spot welds that had to be cut out to make the repairs

What you have done with this car; from where you started to now is admirable. I cannot wait to see the completed car.

Great progress guys! Coming along nicely!

Nice to see this being brought back from the dead... can't wait to see the end result.

Wreck...... What Wreck?

Got the engine bay all welded back together and smoothed out. Finally got to spray some primer. Now off to tend to the rest of the car.

Wow! Fantastic work! Were you able to put the fender tags back on it? Love seeing this kind of progress. That's what this car deserved. Can't wait for a giant TX-DPS mustang meetup.

Yes, the fender tags are still on the car. We didnt have to remove them to replace the fender aprons. The buck tags are put up for now but will be put back as well.

And then there were 2! Finally got a coat of primer on the 87 Tx DPS and set it next to Teds (texunters) 89 LSP. Turned out to be a great weekend!! Moving right along! :eek:

Moving along nicely man! Very cool!