To make room to weld on the 56' the falcon had to be moved out back.
Lucky for me I had a couple helpers.
In some of the electrical issues, one of the easier ones was the horn relay, inside was all rusted out, so I replaced it with a newer Bosch style relay.
The wire was just brittle, but what do you expect for almost 60 years.
A few wasp nests behind the headlight, lucky for me all empty.
Just budging the wires make the plastic fall off. Shown below is the turn signal connections.
Another example of the wiring, this is the drivers side marker light removed. oddly enough the passenger side was not bad; and would work until winter, when I plan to go through the front end anyway.
The trick I've done in the past is to reuse what peaces I could, once I got the wire removed from the pieces I can string new wire.
Wire up station.
New plug made up.
The floor was my next safety issue, the cancer had to be cut out.
That was the extent of it on the drivers side.
Leaving this mess
I had to reuse the support bracket that was below the flooring, after I got it cut from the rusty floor chunk, I cleaned up the section as best as possible.
The end of the bracket end that attached to the body was bad and needed repaired.
This shows how much was actually missing.
I trimmed up the bad spots to be make up with new steel.
Once the bracket now fits correctly.
Using the same steel from an old transformer shell (16 gauge), I made new pieces to replace the floor.
I used the torch to sink the two bolts (Allen head) down into the floor.
The passenger side was worse off.
I used some undercoating to cover the floor.
The seats needed a little help, got some seat belts to add also.
The back seat had almost entirely exploded.
Spray on glue and some white cotton sheeting was good enough to seal the fluff.
I use some packing foam and spray glue to give the ceiling a quick new top.
The back splash was full of holes and fell apart, I used some real thin plywood cut to the exact original size.
And spray glued some cotton cloth tight to the board.
And a quick rattle can (flat) black.
How it looks in the back window.
The front bottom wasn't too bad after I removed the exterior coverings, although no padding left.
The front back rests were in great shape. and still had good pading
The Fuel level sensor that was in the tank was nothing I've ever seen before, nor could I find a replacement sensor that would match up to to the gauge on dash (odd Ohm spans).
For now I just went with a inexpensive unit and gauge setup from Sunpro, so I have some idea the fuel level. I mounted the gauge under the dash and had to adapt the 5 hole setup to the 6 hole setup on the tank, basically make a new plate with the old holes to line up.
Funny note, when removing the radio from dash to get at some of the wiring, I found the radio signed Long McArthur, apparently the car got it's accessories or a repair in Salina Kansis at one time. Of course the radio does not work anymore (tubes are all burnt out). At some point I'm going to remove the front of the radio to stick back in the dash so it looks correct and have an MP3 player hidden away somewhere.
That was the majority of the things needing to be done so the car would be road worthy. Had a lot of fun times driving the car over the summer, but I did end up chucking the Holly as far as I could, after two rebuilds and it letting me down. I stuck a standard 2 barrel Motorcraft and haven't had a problem since.
In part 4 I'll be doing the tear down of the front end sheet metal for the winter.
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