We didn’t get a chance to post last weekend due to the some commitments that ran later than expected. But we’re back this week and that’s all that matters. We have taken the ‘car’67 which has had the rear quarters replaced and some anti rust treatment to the paint shop for prep and paint. It will be there for a little while, so in the mean time we have started back on our very own Falcon Ranchero’s full restoration.

We start with a couple of cars ready to go out to their owners when Adam snapped these pictures.

Adam was going around saying a little lyric to himself:

Blue is the colour,
Mustangs are our game.
If you don't know our name,
Then that's a shame!

It’s not often you get get different generations of the same colour side by side.

Customer Cars

We start with a car that has been brought into us with an exhaust that is blowing. Nothing unusual there as these happen. But what you don’t expect is the exhaust to blow after a specialist has custom made the exhaust for you!

We were expecting a little settlement movement which just needed a quick tighten up. When we got the car up in the air we wasn’t quite ready for what we saw. We have seen worse of course, but this was supposed to be a specialist. Don’t ask us who because we are not here to bash other peoples work. The welding was not very good should we say.

They had cut the exhaust tubing to short and used clamps to hold it in place. If they had a welding rig out, why not just weld another bit on rather than make this complete botch job.

How short was the pipe? Not even close is the answer. Cable ties used to hold brake lines out of the way from burning on the exhaust. On top of all that, the ‘pièce de résistance’ was the black silicon mastic. It will blow almost straight away and start to burn. We think the pictures say enough on the matter to be honest.

We will now have to fabricate new pipework at even more expense to the owner. The only advice we can offer is, if somebody recommends a place for work on your pride and joy; have they been there and what does their work look like? To be honest this type of thing makes owning and driving these cars a bad experience, which they most certainly shouldn’t be. Parts for the cars are readily available for pretty much everything, why do these people make it so hard for themselves? We will probably never know.

Our Cars

Our much loved shop truck 1965 Falcon Ranchero has been moved up the work order and we have started to complete the body shell work. The red oxide is multiple coated and allowed to dry, once that is dry then the seam sealer is applied.

Once that has all cured we can then apply our own secret recipe of black underseal.

While the main body was drying we started on the rear axle.

We will be bringing you more updates as we go along.

Stay Safe & Take Care!