Build Thread My 1986 T-top Build - Lasting Memories

[FoxMustangLvr]

Very upsetting that Doby is going back to your brother. This was my favorite car of the two honestly. You're a much nicer person than I am. You smoothed the bay, mini tub'd, restored the floor, and laid a beautiful paint job on that car. Hopefully he's giving you some money for the work and time invested in to the car, if not, i'd sand that car down with 40 grit and take a hammer to the engine bay. You brought that car into this world and you can take that frickin' thing back out!

 

[Davedacarpainter]

Very upsetting that Doby is going back to your brother. This was my favorite car of the two honestly. You're a much nicer person than I am. You smoothed the bay, mini tub'd, restored the floor, and laid a beautiful paint job on that car. Hopefully he's giving you some money for the work and time invested in to the car, if not, i'd sand that car down with 40 grit and take a hammer to the engine bay. You brought that car into this world and you can take that frickin' thing back out!

Yeah, I really like the red on it. The bright side is that my welding will be much prettier on my blue car.

 

[RaggedGT]

I am really sorry dave

 

[Davedacarpainter]

I am really sorry dave

Don't be Chris, look at the bright side....you will have a whole new car to come in and twist me around on.

 

[Mstng93SSP]

Get your brother to join stangnet. And give us his screen name. That might be fun.....

 

[Davedacarpainter]

Ok, one last post for Doby. She's close to going back to Stillwater.

I was trying to rig a way to get the car back on it's wheels. Well, I got my brother to stop over since it's going back to him. He asked what I had planned to do if I kept it, so I told him about the QA1 coilovers. He paid for them and had them shipped here.

I just got through putting them on and got the car back on it's tires for the first time since May of last year. I forgot how short the car is, lol. I thought QA1 might include a cheap spannner wrench so I could adjust them a little, I was wrong. So they're adjusted up as far as my hands would do them.

BTW, the minitubbing really turned out well. Loads of space for 315's. I wasn't real positive on how much room the coilovers would take.

Anyhow, a couple pictures of the coilovers and Doby back down on rubber.

 

[General karthief]

I'm not gonna hit the like button on that, it still sucks.
Your a good man dave, now push it out in the street, call him and tell him he better get it before the cops impound it.

 

[RaggedGT]

Ok, one last post for Doby. She's close to going back to Stillwater.

I was trying to rig a way to get the car back on it's wheels. Well, I got my brother to stop over since it's going back to him. He asked what I had planned to do if I kept it, so I told him about the QA1 coilovers. He paid for them and had them shipped here.

I just got through putting them on and got the car back on it's tires for the first time since May of last year. I forgot how short the car is, lol. I thought QA1 might include a cheap spannner wrench so I could adjust them a little, I was wrong. So they're adjusted up as far as my hands would do them.

BTW, the minitubbing really turned out well. Loads of space for 315's. I wasn't real positive on how much room the coilovers would take.

Anyhow, a couple pictures of the coilovers and Doby back down on rubber.

 

[FoxMustangLvr]

I vote that you buff the paint out with some 40 grit

 

[Davedacarpainter]

You wouldn't believe how clean that paint job came out, there are maybe five or six nibs of dirt. SMH.

 

[CarMichael Angelo]

When exactly does this car go away?

 

[Davedacarpainter]

I have to work tomorrow, so I'm not sure it'll be this weekend or next.

 

[a91what]

5lb sledge and 25$ a whack.

"You should have seen the size of that hail!"

 

[tannerc91gt]

These last 7-8 pages were an emotional rollercoaster I was not ready for

 

[Davedacarpainter]

Yeah, things went to hell.

If work hadn't taken the downturn over the last year I would have kept Doby. As it stands, I can't afford two fox bodies needing as much as they do. I had to choose one. The coupe is my choice, though I like the red paint better. In retrospect I might have chosen a different color for the blue car. The kona will be nice though.

In spite of the financial difficulties I've had, I still thank God that all my bills are paid.

The worst for me is the loss of Doby, which isn't the end of the world. I learned a lot through the work I've done to her.

Tomorrow, Doby goes back to Stillwater. This project has come to an end. I'm a little sad. I've been rereading this thread though and I want take an opportunity to thank all of you for your friendship through this. Doby was something I did with influences from all of you and y'all helped make it fun for me.

The creative side of Doby was fairly much over though. It was a matter of reassembly of known parts at this stage.

My brother will put it all together and i will get to see and drive her when it's done.

On my part, I will smoke those new 315's that my brother puts on the car until they are bald.

Now, on to the blue car.

 

[CarMichael Angelo]

Yeah, things went to hell.

If work hadn't taken the downturn over the last year I would have kept Doby. As it stands, I can't afford two fox bodies needing as much as they do. I had to choose one. The coupe is my choice, though I like the red paint better. In retrospect I might have chosen a different color for the blue car. The kona will be nice though.

In spite of the financial difficulties I've had, I still thank God that all my bills are paid.

The worst for me is the loss of Doby, which isn't the end of the world. I learned a lot through the work I've done to her.

Tomorrow, Doby goes back to Stillwater. This project has come to an end. I'm a little sad. I've been rereading this thread though and I want take an opportunity to thank all of you for your friendship through this. Doby was something I did with influences from all of you and y'all helped make it fun for me.

The creative side of Doby was fairly much over though. It was a matter of reassembly of known parts at this stage.

My brother will put it all together and i will get to see and drive her when it's done.

On my part, I will smoke those new 315's that my brother puts on the car until they are bald.

Now, on to the blue car.

I really don't see the red car as having alot of your influences in the build anyway Dave. Aside from the flawless paint that is.

The Blue car is infinitely more of a "personal touch" project....It's very comparable to mine in respect that there isn't a detail that you haven't touched.
(You painted the plastic center cap on the horn button for Christ sake)

I'd let the red car roll,.... and watch it till it got out of my sight,...... then turn and refocus my attention on the car that actually IS your car. A much more personal and intricate build IMO.

 

[Davedacarpainter]

I needed to make at least one more post to this thread.

My brother sent me a text this morning saying he needed to talk to me. This was an unusual manner for my brother to talk to me, so I told him I could call between coats on a Jeep I was painting at the time.

He texted back to wait about an hour, since it was close to lunchtime I told him I would call back at about 11:15. I then asked if everything was ok, not really giving thought to it. He texted back that he would tell me after his doctor's appointment.

So, with a bit of trepidation I finished up the Jeep and went to lunch. I thought, "this better be good or i'm going to kill him".

It wasn't good, it wasn't good at all.

Through the end of this thread I have spoken somewhat negatively about him. I guess I haven't said enough of what a good brother he was.

This may not sound so great to y'all, but he lived with my grandparents back in the early seventies in Iowa City. When the rest of the kids and I would go up there to visit Grandma and Grandpa, I would inevitably be told that I had to share a bed with my oldest brother. My other brother and I hated this because larry would demand that we would give him a back rub or he would fart on us. While this may not sound like such a big deal to the average fella out there in greater America, you would have to understand that God himself had gifted my brother with an amazing and terrible talent for flatulence. It wasn't just volume either, it was the lingering cloud that probably was the basis for several Stephen King novels. If we would refuse the back rub, the horror would come, and he would laugh and laugh. This is one of those funny in retrospect memories.

My first job in a bodyshop back in '76 was because he got me a job being the clean up boy at the Honda dealership he worked at. I admired him greatly, he was practically a superhero to me. I would tell people that Larry was my brother as though I just told them that Thor was my brother.

When I was sixteen I ran away from home because of a brutal father. I made it on my own till the last couple months before graduation and was preparing to head off to the army. He and his wife took me in so I could focus on graduating high school and get my head right to be a soldier.

In '79 Larry was 29, I remember thinking how terribly old that was. Perspective is everything.....

Before I went off to basic training back in June of '80, it was Larry and his wife that threw the goodbye party for me.
That was my first totally drunk experience, lol. I still remember telling Larry's wife that she sure could be a btch, but I loved her anyhow.

I could go on about my memories here and there just like y'all could about your brothers.

I'm on this forum because of him, in a way. He was the original (and current) owner.

I had obviously become upset with him during the finality of this thread, I believe y'all understand why.

I WAS angry with him, but today he told me he just found out he has esophageal cancer.

One if my sisters died about ten years ago from the exact same cancer. She found out about fourty-five days before she died that she had the cancer. My sister was the sweetest thing on the earth and I miss her still.

I know this cancer, I know that Doby doesn't matter. I love my brother.

Oddly enough, I'll try to help him build Doby before he isn't able. Though I'm not so sure we'll have the time to make her a running mustang before the cancer plays out. I will not be showing the progress anymore, this will be my personal fox memory. Just my brother and me.

 

[General karthief]

Your a good brother dave, make some happy memories with him.
fk the dumb sht.

 

[RaggedGT]

I feel for you dave. I hope for the best for all of you

 

[a91what]

Family first everything else comes second Dave. Here is hoping for the best.