Very Beginning of the 60 Starliner

[mbrunson427]

Looks incredible.  Those are AMD pieces for the firewall and front floor?  Any comment on the fit/quality?

Yes those are AMD pieces. Based on everything I had read about their fitment I had confidence in them, Neal was skeptical. He emailed us and was surprised at how well it worked, he was complimentary of them.

[drdano]

I've not read any feedback on these pans in particular, but heard AMD in general made good stuff.  Thanks for the review, still hoping to get a set ordered for my wagon.

[mbrunson427]

Looks like a car again! Floor pans complete, hanging body panels and starting body work now.

[mbrunson427]

Should be coming home soon!

[turbohunter]

It’s looking beautiful Mike. Jealy meter pegged.

[cjshaker]

100% rust free and stripped to metal. Ya gotta love it! Can't wait to see this one come together.

[mbrunson427]

Metal work is now 100%. All odds and ends are complete, ready to pick up. I also received pictures this morning of the complete T85 overdrive transmission, was gone through in Milwaukee.

[mbrunson427]

This project has been dormant for quite some time. We have been waiting on a body shop to free up. Out of the blue a few months ago one of the local shops called and said they had multiple people back out and had a spot for the Starliner. We jumped on it and had the car over to them the next weekend. Just this week we got some progress photos....it's in the works.

The body shop has some work coming in the May/June timeframe, so he was hoping to have this done right around then. Hopefully it's a black Starliner by June!

[Rory428]

Don`t know how I missed this build story, but this car is going to be great. Amazing workmanship.

[WConley]

Ooh La La!  That is going to be a gem 

[mbrunson427]

Thanks guys! This one is going to take a while, long term project.

[BruceS]

Mike, are you planning to paint the car the Ford black which I believe was called Raven Black?  The metal work was outstanding. 

[mbrunson427]

Mike, are you planning to paint the car the Ford black which I believe was called Raven Black?  The metal work was outstanding.

I think the final paint selection is still up in the air. Our '68 cougar is painted Raven Black and the '67 Mustang is Jet Black. When you park the two side-by-side in sunlight, the Cougar almost looks a little brown compared to the Mustang. We're tending towards Jet Black right now, even though its not the totally right paint for the car. Do you think that's a decent plan?

[BruceS]

At the end of the day the decision is yours of course.  My friend has a '67 R-Code Fairlane which was originally Raven Black.  When he had the car restored he had it painted the original color which he said has brown and olive green in the paint mix.  If it was me I'd go with the original black but just about any black is going to look great. 

[mbrunson427]

It was a big labor day weekend around here, I get to update multiple project statuses.

Yesterday we went to check on the Starliner at the paint shop and give him some final instruction before it's painted. Bruce, you'll be happy to know that we settled on Raven Black rather than Jet Black. Under-side is getting painted red oxide. When we disassembled the car it had 2-3 colors of green underneath it for primer. I asked around and was explained that Ford would use leftover paint as primer sometimes. I had the idea of replicating the green......but at the end of the day we really didn't want the bottom side of the car to look like a lollipop. Red oxide it is.

He should be spraying black hopefully by the end of the week. With any luck, we should be picking the car up by October after it's all final buffed.

We have to quick get the brake lines and fuel lines run on the frame. The frame is now powder coated. We'll hang just enough suspension on it to roll it out of the paint shop.