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1971 Ford Mach 1
       Restoration

Driver's Floor & Door

7/30/2015

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It was a busy week.  Despite that, we were able to get a little more work done on the Mach 1.  In our post last week we discussed replacing the entire floor pan on the passenger side and only the back half of the driver's.  However, after some discussion we decided to change out the whole driver's side as well.  There is just something about symmetry and knowing we won't have to worry about this part of the car for a very long time. 
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With the floors done we can  now move to another section of the car.  This week it was the driver's door.  Rust on  lower doors is pretty much expected on a 44 year old car, and this one is no exception.  The driver's side door had rust of varying degrees along the entire bottom.  On the outside, the rear corner had to be cut out and a new piece welded in place.  While there, Matt ground off the tabs that held on the chrome molding since we will not be putting them back on for this car.  
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Most of the work was done on the inside of the door.  With each corner eaten away by rust, Matt was busy welding new metal to both inside corners as well as fabricating the outside edge to look factory.  Also, one design flaw in this car was the where the weather stripping attached to the car along the bottom of the door.  For some reason the metal strip used to attach the weatherstripping was placed over the drain holes in the lower door.  This caused water to pool between both pieces of metal encouraging rust.  Though we could have covered it with rust converter and left it, we opted to cut and replace the metal since we already had everything we needed to do so.
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That's it for this week. Hopefully next week we can get the passenger door done.  Until then, have a great weekend.  I"m still  going through the NPD catalog circling parts and marking pages!
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Rodney
7/30/2015 12:00:58 pm

Price on a job like this

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DeeAnn link
8/4/2015 03:05:40 am

Rodney- So many factors go into the final price of a restoration. Factors include hours of labor, materials, parts needed, and one's budget. On older cars not all parts are easily found and must be fabricated which increases the cost. Other finishes can increase cost like chrome bumpers versus painted, leather versus vinyl, or stock versus custom. As for this build in particular, we estimate around $10,000 if it were to stay original. But, will it stay original is the question....

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Lacey Fowler link
9/24/2024 10:25:51 am

Nice blog thankks for posting

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