I'll post progress as I make it, again I could really use any nice red 85-86 interior stuff. Thanks for the compliments!

I found some more stuff today...

Chris, so whats up with you and the car? How are things going?

Matt

Hey Matt, sorry I hadn't gotten back to you. I think i'm going to hold out and see if I can find a full interior in a little bit better condition, maybe save myself some money and trouble. I know that if I'm patient someone will be parting one of those interiors...

I bought a new front clip for the car, (fenders, bumper and extentions) that are in really good shape, I need to find a good core support to replace mine with, it's tweaked on the bottom like someone jacked up the car there. Once I get all of that done, I'll send it off to body and paint. Anyone ever consider taking the door tag off and putting it in a frame or something with the bucktag (the only one left) for safe keeping. Will it even come off of the door in 1 piece? Just thinking out loud...

Probably someone wearing a uniform, at about 55MPH. :)

Many of these cars are like that...from in-service u-turns in the medians across the country.

Sounds like you are making good progress.

The radiator core support on my '86 is also banged up but ford told me they do not make it anymore, even though I have a price from them for $356. LateModelRestorations has an after market one for about $136 but they have a problem getting it and sending it out to me (I don't think they can get it). What I had done was have the shop person straighten it out as much as possible and them welding a straight piece or metal along the bottom to make it flat so that the bumper cover can be straight. I don't plan on making my car concourse car so it is good enough for me.

Both of my '86's are like that. Their tweaked but not enough to replace. The WSP is on the upper support while the FHP is on the lower driver side. The driver side sway bar bracket has been re-welded on the FHP also. If these cars could talk, what stories they would tell.

So are yall trying to tell me that these things weren't babied from the day they rolled off the truck? lol I guess I'm too damn picky, although finding a nice core support isn't going to be easy either.

To a certain degree. :)

I think that the cars that were take-homes were probably (generally) taken better care of, but if a curb needed to be jumped or median hopped for a good reason, it didn't matter. Personally, I didn't like taking all of my gear out of my cars and finding a pool shop to drive, so I took good care of all of mine.

If you need a core support contact Onetrickpony.com also known in Miami as Eddyson. I don't have their number off hand. They have a lot of mustang parts all over the place.