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[FirstEliminator]

BTW Mark, love your wagon.

    Thanks. Wagons rock!  I'm hoping to get mine painted in the original Saxony Yellow and apply the wood grain as well. The accident is quite a bummer. The person probably took off because they have no insurance or license. Glad that it is a fender bender and not a full on T-bone where people got hurt and the car is totaled.

[KMcCullah]

Yes Kevin decals.
 It’s a dipping process where you submerge the part then bring it up through a film that adheres to the part. Kinda like camo on a rifle.

Good info guys. Interesting process. I've seen a pair of valve covers done in camo recently and wondered how it was done. They looked better than the average rattle can camo job.

I ask because I've been gathering the XLT trim pieces for my Highboy. A couple of them look pretty rough. They all had wood grain decals inlaid on them when they left the factory.

[cjshaker]

Dang, Marc. I had no idea this happened. Time pressures kept me from the internet for a good part of the summer. I was heartbroken to see the original picture because I LOVE this car. I'm so glad you were able to repair it. On a car that old, most companies would just consider it a 'total'; I hope you were able to keep that from happening? It'd suck to have a "rebuilt" title on that car.

Great job on the repairs though. But....it loses a bit of the cool factor because it was all original before. I'm like you, I MUCH prefer to drive the old stuff over new. Just can't do it in the winter months here in Ohio, or rust becomes a real problem.

I suppose the perp will never be caught at this point, but hopefully karma will come around to set him straight.

[turbohunter]

Can only hope for karma kickback at this point Doug. If we could catch the bastard I could at least get 3500 back for uninsured motorist. But no catchy no money. And you’re right about collision insurance. They’d just total it and give me, what, 2500 bucks.
I’m gonna just put a positive spin on it and say hey at least I got to upgrade some stuff, albeit not in the timeline I would have preferred.

[turbohunter]

Got the mustang all caught up on mechanicals so now just order driveshaft, plumb, wire, start. Easy right
So I had time to work on the wagon some more.
I couldn’t find any nice whole faux wood moldings so I bought some pieces and started matching them up to the pieces I have left.
Got it all hanging and connected with tape. Tomorrow I’ll get a fiberglass repair kit from Autozone or whoever and do the fiberglass connecting and matching.

[BruceS]

Marc, West Marine has some quality 'glass materials and tools available if there are any of those stores near you.  I used their stuff to repair my heater / AC plenum on the Fairlane.  Bruce

[MRadke]

I'll second the stuff from west marine.  I used their products for my cedar strip duck skiff and have nothing but good to say.

Mike

[TomP]

Yes, that should be easily fixable. A local in the car club redid the "wood" on his Falcon Squire, he painted it with brushed on paint in a sort of off white , bone shade. He missed white and brown and black until it looked right, then went over it with thinned brown paint and made the grain look. Then he cleared over it. The wood behind is MacTac for kitchen cabinets.

[turbohunter]

Took the easy and quick route. Looked on the ole interweb for glass kits. Friggin Autozone had them right down the street and the kit was small enough that I don’t have a bunch of not used crap getting old on a shelf. Also picked up a small can of kitty hair to do the bondo work.
Worked like a charm, sheeted the back and filled the front. Slapped some paint on it I had in the paint cabinet and viola, pretty close. I still have some body work to do on the front but that’ll keep for a few days.
I’m going back and forth with myself on how much to spend on it because it’s my dd and it sits in traffic a bunch. Can’t make it look to pretty but just enough to stay cool.

[FirstEliminator]

It's becoming pretty popular to drive around with a dash cam these days. That would have been nice to have when this guy hit you. Perhaps it's something to consider when driving a car like yours in traffic on a daily basis

[Heo]

I'm getting a bit nervous driving around i got hit two times the last summer
Fortunately i came out as winner both times. First time a retard in a Moped car
hit me in a parking lot and escaped the scene just left half of the plastic bodywork
behind. Now i can laugh at it, Imagine the sight of a retard fleeing in a crushed moped car
plastic pieces flapping in the wind at 30 kmh . I know,should not laugh feel
sorry for him from time to time. The other time it was an old lady in some small gray car
probably a Toyota. All old Ladies drive gray Toytas,  Galaxie rear bumper 1, Gray Asian rear bumper Zero
But maybe I'm out of luck next time.
Dashcam is maybe a good idea

[turbohunter]

I’ve been thinking about the dash cam thing a lot.
I’m just not a guy that can do that. I don’t know why, but that’s me.
I think it’s a great idea, but just not for me.
Besides working on the mustang I’ve been getting the wagon back to better than before.
Painting a panel at a time as weather allows.
I’m using a red/brown primer and I gotta say, I’m good with how it looks. I don’t feel the need to get the stickers as this paint looks great and I won’t stress driving and parking around town.

[cjshaker]

I think it looks fine also, Marc, and as you said, you want it to be a driver, not something you have to worry and fret over. My one concern would be that brown oxide primer doesn't seal the surface and would make it vulnerable to corrosion, especially in a coastal area. Unless of course you used a sealer underneath?

[turbohunter]

Its sealed underneath Doug. Everything is over the original and new white paint.

[MeanGene]

As it came out of the barn