Tuesday 4 November 2014

Cougar moved back to my shop.

The move on the flat bed truck was successful.
Nothing shifted or moved the welds and the bracing look good, of course the flat bed took the rough back roads to get to my shop so it was a good first test of things holding up.
So now with the car at my shop I should be able to finish all the interior sheet metalling and welding.
Once that is complete I will start to replace the cars interior. I don't recall noting what I was planning on doing with the interior so my plan is to use both interiors, part of the Shelby and Cougar dash. I will need to use the electronic portion of the Shelby dash, and the rest will be from the Cougar. The front seats will be from the Shelby the rear seats from the Cougar. The head liner, door liner and inner panels will be from the Cougar. Most of the electronics will just plug in, I was checking this out the other day by plugging in the rear lights, they are a match and work, once I have attached all the components I will order the sequential system for this model, so it will work like the original Cougar system. Getting to the front lights will be a long time from now as all the body work will need to be completed before I can tackle that, but my plan will be to detach the vacuume system and go with the electric hideaway lights.
One last note I very excited to see last year that there were over 800 followers well since that time it has more than doubled to over 1600, thanks to all who read this and a bigger thanks to everyone for the help!