Is that the same car? After all your work restoring the front end you cut the bottom and front off?

U sic 😈

hahahahhaa!! it was a necessity, every spot weld was cut out and the front was seperated from the uniframe. The course in wich im taking the car made me have to do that to fit parts together and correctly weld everything. dont worry the front and fenders are put up nicely in the side shop :smt008

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the front end

here how it looks with just the outside of the fenders taken off

I see no braces for the body not to move or does it matter??

Really cool build excited to see the rest.

trust me I did alot of thinking on this and after looking at the underside for more then a few hours before doing my cutting and see how the unibody was constructed to ensure strengh and were to cut and not to cut I went and got my tram gauge and did a notebook full of measurements. As I started cutting I stoped periodicaly to remeasure not one time durring thr process did the outside distort or inside for that matter. Every cross measurment and diamond measurment is still perfect, since the acutual strengh through the car is in the rockers it keeps the car rigid, in fact if I pick up on the right front corner when it was on jackstands instead of bending slightly from the weight it simply came up all three jackstands and teeterd on the far left stand indicating alot of sructrual integrety even though the middle was missing out of it. As it sits on the dolly now its still all in the measurments I originaly took, but i will cross brace it when it comes time do lower it onto the other chassis, that way I can insure it always statying especialy when welding everything back together.

ok, i see the towncar in the back of pic 1. I cant wait to see the progress. you need HID headlights.

good eye I was actually waiting to see if someone was going to pick that out… it is in fact a 1999 lincoln towncar… why use a differnt model other then a lincoln? the wheelbase is close enough I can work with the differences with minor modifications all the other measurements are really close when I start posting the pics of the 99 cut apart and the measurments of both you will see how well this will actually work.

I know there are alot of older guys here are thinking that im just some back woods redneck thats cutting apart a perfectly good car but the factof the matter is Ive been cutting cars apart and putting them back together since 98 im a well experienced heavy damage repair tech and the only one of two in the repair shop that is allowed to do heavy damage vehicle repair. This project while being large isnt much differnt then what I do on a daily basis when Im taking nealry new cars down to nothing and rewelding framerails and floor pans inner structures and otter panels to bring it back to before accident condition. Ive done this work for many years besides custom work and yet to have anything come back becouse of either my lack of inteligence and understanging of what im doing. I will succeed at this and like I said before this project is rolling about a month ahead of the photos I add so I can say everything is going great.

well nibblin around right this minute, both rear doors are done and finishing up some smaller parts that needed to be stripped and primed down.

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ok since I posted up the teaser pic lets see how we got to that point

ok back to my 99 many hours of dismantling it and cutting metal off making sure parts were still usuable later if needed on anything else, all the while taking measurments and going between both cars to make sure I cut enough and not to much off the 99 to make the 62 shell fit Ill let the pics do the esplaining how much material was taken off to work

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basicaly all metal from the inner rocker panel out had to be removed the wheel houses I decided to remove as it would be easier to make new ones then try to make each line up as the measurments in height were way off between the two plus the depth was way off.

and he we are working on putting the the halves together, we had to finish up grinding the surfaces on the 99 and trimming some metal out around the A piller and the top of the cowl so the windsheild will sit flush.

all and all we had it up and down about 20 times it took us only about 5 hours to get from two parts to one

here is where we used a porta power to stretch the 62 wider to fit over the top of te 99 inner rocker as it did a .90 out and a .90 up once stretched open we could set it down all the way and when the pressure was released it snapped tight under the edge and fit perfect

here it is sitting together all on its own

and here we are all together all I did at this time was do some stich welds to hold it together

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I had a hour after work friday and decided to see how bad the front end will have to be modded to make work so I went to town on the front of my car. Now this by no means is nothing more then just a mock up right now I want to get the main body and the suspension doen before I get to the front.

first I had to cut the front cross reinforcement off the 99 frame and notch alittle bit of the frame to make the front of the 62 slide in.,

heat saw at work

then I slid the front end on and clamped everything together to see how everything fit

I got tons of room to put my radiator/condensor and fans back infront of the motor, plus some other stuff…lol

and this is where my car sits for this weekend :happysad:
but on a good note I picked up my sheet of 18 gauge metal so I can start boxing and tubbin in my main body 😉

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Need more updates!!!!

Also.. what are you doing for drivetrain? The 4.6 will be a little underpowered wont it?

I dont understand why everyone would keep thinking that, I have a 4.6 in my 97 truck and it ripped 96mph in the quarter mile its xcab as well seems to haul it around as well.

now as for weight

when the underbody of the 62 was completly removed I could physicaly pick up the complete shell of it and move it myself (standing inside behind the B pillers- mind you I am also quite big and strong lol) so I estimate the shell od the 62 to be roughtly 300 lbs or just alittle over

now the metal from my 99 was alot heavier then the 62 so when the 62 was put onto the 99 base it didnt even sag the suspension an inch thats why in the pics it looks to be sitting so high the suspension is maxed out upwards!

once complete I plan on weighing the car the way Im figuring it should actually come out lighter then the 99 wich overall is lighter then the 62

short week since I only work on this during my lunch break and a few mins here and there after work

working on making the trunk filler panels and started on the wheel tubs

im hoping by the end of next week ill have the whole back trunk/ rear deck/ wheelhouses completely welded in.