Thanks Joel. Yeah the floor had some fairly good texture to it so I didn’t do the usual flocking method to it. I’ve got some floor mats to cover those nasty ejector pin marks up in the corners. I just couldn’t help myself as far as the license plate frames went. lol
Jeez…seems like my time on the forums has been scarce as of late BUT…I’m back!!!
Fast forwarding the completed interior.
Dash panel
and the rest:
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Joseph,
The dash with the wood wheel and then the overall shot of the interior looks just like the real deal. And I love the issue of Hot Rod magazine. Now there’s a great touch for sure.
joel
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Beautiful interior there Joseph, great work!
As Joel said, the magazine adds a nice touch of realism as well.
Cheers, D
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Thanks you guys. I did have alot of fun with that interior.
I’ve been out of the loop now for the past week as we went to Dallas last Saturday to catch the Dallas/Washington football game, then we were all set to visit with my family an hour or so north of Dallas and at the last minute while we were at the football game found out that all of them came down with Covid so …we went ahead and went to my hometown but stayed in a hotel and visited with them in a social distance setting which wasn’t as good as it could’ve been if they hadn’t been sick but we all got to see each other nonetheless…so…I’ll call that a “win”. After a couple of days in my hometown we made our way to a “Dude Ranch” ran by a Swiss couple in Palo Pinto and stayed there for two days. Got to ride horses and just enjoy some peace and quiet for a couple of days. It was GREAT!!!
Got home late Friday night in time to celebrate New Years and we’ve been lazy bums for the last two days. My wife’s got the post vacation blues but we’re getting her through it. lol
As of now the nose to body fit is what’s holding me up in moving forward in a timely fashion but this is a holy grail build of mine so I’ll be taking my time with this one.
All of these AMT kits (base 67 Fastback, GT-350 and the GT-500) have the exact same problem with the nose to body fit. A little TLC is all that’s needed to fix the problem.
What I’ll cover here that I didn’t in Declan’s thread is a focus on my car instead of his:
This is the NASTY join on the drivers side of the car.
Sanding the same ALL THE WAY down from the top of the fender to the bottom on the leading edge helped the gap through out the top and bottom edges of the fender/ nose seam. Once that’s straightened out I noticed that there was a slight interference fit issue behind the headlight on the nose piece so I took a small file and trued the area where the headlight bucket meets the leading edge of the fender called out as area #1 in the photo below. After that I trimmed out the area behind the headlight called out in area #2 in the same photo. These two mods seemed to help things out alot:
Another thing I did that seemed to help was that I used the back side of my X-Acto knife to carve some of the “meat” out from the drivers side front fender where the backside of the headlight bucket meets the fender from the inside here:
Although the passenger side doesn’t seem to have the alignment and fit issues that the drivers side does you can see the difference of what I had to cut down on the drivers side as compared to the same area shown here untouched that’s on the passengers side.
I’m still working through this issue with mine but I’m getting closer to the point that I can use a little filler in the gaps and sand it down some. You can see that the top of the headlight bucket is now flush with the fender at the top joint and the sides have cleaner join between the nose piece and the fender all the way down.
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Well…I knew I was gonna need to have more room topside the engine bay so that the air cleaner wouldn’t contact the hood so I got to thinkin… 
. I’ve got the AMT GT-500 kit in the stash with a good factory scoop on it but the hood wouldn’t interchange with the regular Mustang because the nose piece on the GT-350 is longer. So why not just use the scoop? So I went to work and scribed the cut out area that I needed to start removing the scoop from the GT-350 hood.
All cut out and ready for trimming up to the sides of the scoop:
A slight bit of clean up remains but I just sanded up to the sides and the sanded the front from the bottom till I was able to remove the areas right in front of the air intake.
A little more clean up and I’ll start working this into the hood after I cut out the opening in the Fastback hood for the air cleaner to sit up into. 
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Joseph,
Now that’s some vacation for sure. Hope that your family fully recovers from Covid, and I’m hoping that the social distancing kept you and your wife safe. Loved the side trip to the Dude ranch. Sure sounds like you two had a great time. Post vacation blues is something I’m very familiar with, but it does pass with time once you get back into the your usual daily routine.
As for the front clip on the Mustang, I really like how you handled it rather then just filing and sanding away. Like you, I always look for the cause of the issue, and then try to resolve it that way. Then just a little final sanding and putty work if necessary, and it’s better then new.
As for the hood modification with the huge intake scoop. I googled it just to make sure, and the 1967 Fastback did have that exact option. Great Call for sure.
joel
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Interior looks amazing. Excellent surgery, on the scoop.
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Thank you guys for the kind words and for the support.
Hello gang. I’ve been out now for the better part of 2 months. Over Christmas break, as you know, both of my parents contracted Covid and dad did pretty well through the whole thing and has since recovered. Mom…didn’t fare as well. Her bout with it turned into Covid pneumonia. Dad tried to get her to go to the hospital for four days and on the fourth day he called 911 and had the paramedics come to her. She was arguing with the paramedics that she didn’t need to go to the hospital…with blue lips and finger tips. Finally the medics talked her into going in and within hours she was put on a ventilator for the next 10 days. It was simply too late though as her kidneys and other organs started shutting down on the 10th day. When dad made the call to take her off of the ventilator Mom, Lynell Kay Shaw, passed away on Sunday, January 23rd peacefully 10 minutes later at 3:15 pm and with all of us gathered around as she took her last breath. We buried her on Thursday in Bowie with more than 200 people present for the funeral.
I brought my family back to Corpus and went back up to Bowie to spend a week with my dad which turned out to be a very good thing. Over the course of the last month or so benchtime has been a little lax as well as my participation on the forums. I’ve been slowly getting back to both so I’ll start looking in on all the great work going on here as well as contributing to it through my own build here.
I am very sorry for your loss Joe . My condolences to
you , your dad and any other members of your family. I hope all can heal quickly and find some peace & happiness.
My best - Richard
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Sorry for your loss Joe. Prayers for you and your family. I loss my mom back in 2018.
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Joesph,
My sincerest condolences on the passing of your mother. What a terrible way to go. Please take all the time away from here as you need to, to heal, and try to get your Dad to come stay with you and your family for a while.
Joel
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So sorry to read this Joe, our deepest condolences on the loss of your mother.
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Thanks you guys for all the supportive comments. I’ve been making my way back to the bench over the course of the last few weeks and am going to finish this one up somewhere in the 1 month or so time frame. Mom was pretty interested in this one as she got to watch this car go from nothing to a fully driveable car within 5 days. My dad towed it home as a rolling chassis and I drove it back to Fort Hood a week later. lol.
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Humble apologies Joseph, I’ve been offline for a while and missed your posts here. I’m so sorry to hear of the loss of your mother, my deepest sympathy and condolences to you and your family.
It’s good to see you back here, hopefully some bench time can provide some distraction from the real-world events for you.
D
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Joseph,
It’s really encouraging to read that you’re slowly getting back to the bench. Believe I know that any time spent doing what we love to do is the best healing medicine of all.
Hope that you, your family, and especially your Dad are all healing in their own way.
joel
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Thanks fellas. I do appreciate the warm welcome back. That week that I spent with dad after mom passed was a memorable one for both of us. I had been working on a replacement engine for my truck so…I took it back up north so dad and I could install it together. Out came the 383 Stroker engine and in it’s place went a small block 400 that I had punched .030 over for a final displacement of 406 cubic inches. We had a lot of fun together putting that in and it was a great distraction from mom and a great time to bond even further with dad.
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Joseph,
Now that’s some engine swap. Sounds like a real killer of an engine. Even more important it got your father and you to spend some quality time together, and to start the healing process. Well done my friend.
joel
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Joseph
Just been catching up and thoroughly enjoying your Mustang build. Wonderful work on detailing the engine and the interior. I’m sure I’m the same as everyone, that your build brings back some wonderful memories.
Peter
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Thanks Joel and Peter!
Slowly getting back into the swing of things after the last few weeks. Been working on these decals now for a couple of days but think I’ve got 'em about ironed out after I don’t know how many coats of Microsol.
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