This Isn't Just Another 60's Mustang

[@KevinHalliburton]

My heart goes out to the Mustang owner. Imagine having all of that work done, and presumably paid for, only to discover that you will have to pay more to have it all torn out just to get back to a point where you can start over. If anyone deserves to have a top shelf car in the end, built exactly the way they want it, it's them! They brought it to the right place this time.

[@stinkeyecustoms]

Exactly! I see this all the time in the motorcycle world. "Professional" bike builders butcher someone's then it comes to me to be repaired right and its now typically a JOB to fix. I feel so bad for these people.

[@glennroy2747]

It's important to have a client that is patient and has the finances put into such a project.

[@johnlee8231]

I feel like I need to apologize to the future owner of my junk now. I recognize my quality of work in my own stuff in this pre mustang repairs. Thanks for sharing something to aspire to

[@Patrick-is4ym]

Rosette and edge welded, wow, just wow. I always feel bad for the owner that’s paid for work multiple times. At least it’s on the right track now! It’s going to be a beautiful car

[@thomasollinger7922]

Mike, that's a really good opener to your video. Obviously, the rest is great.

[@cornfieldcustoms]

Appreciate the feedback!

[@almaylin464]

I need to come and sweep the floors in your shop for a while just to soak up some knowledge I have several projects I that I could stand to learn some before diving in. I do have some that I plan to use as learning projects before jumping in real deep

[@mikeclarahan6770]

Building in a manner that allows major exterior progress definitely helps with motivation!

[@marshallcrank]

Your work is so incredible.im unfortunately waiting for lung transplant then hopefully I'll get back on my chop on my 31 Ford two door sedan.my work will not be as good as you but I'm trying. Good luck in the new year.

[@patrickharrand]

Thanks for sharing the Mustang update Mike. I signed up for the monthly newsletter also.

[@cornfieldcustoms]

Appreciate you subscribing!

[@chrisbrown2174]

Looks awesome Mike, great to have a customer that understands what's required to make it right 👍

[@daleking8529]

Outstanding work!!

[@poppafiveone]

With all the work you are doing on the Mustang I can envision Riddler Award material. Or at least the Great Eight Ridler Contender judging. I appreciate the attention to the small details like hood and tail light panel.

[@cornfieldcustoms]

Yeah, I put a lot of effort into the details!

[@LetGaiaLive]

Great video Mike (& Dom). I saw a couple of your videos on it, but been wondering about that Mustang - a very interesting project!

[@argee55]

Thanks for the video. I really like the merging of 1970 hood and the 1969 taillights.

[@cornfieldcustoms]

Thanks for watching!

[@dougwernham5209]

Fantastic project, great video thanks Mike.

[@cornfieldcustoms]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@jayinmi3706]

I do something similar whern I find stuff that needs to be fixed on my customer's cars. I't always seems like the last person to touch it gets the blame. I don't want people seeing stufff I didn't do and then being told my shop did it. This was tottally the right move.

[@karlalton3170]

Bloody Hell Mike , the rear quarter bits looked like they had been stick welded on or they used pigeon shit to stick them on 😂😂 your doing the right thing buddy chop it out and start again great job mate 😎😎🤘🤘

[@eddyanderson4999]

2200 pounds holy cow that’s another vehicle

[@bjroberts6521]

Nice work. Great insights into stuff ups other builders make. Never thought that people are building twisted cars on rotisseries. Looking forward to the progress this vehicle.

[@fixinstuff9662]

It makes sense. Every single weld expands and then contracts. If it isn't hooked to something solid, it would definitely be warped after that much work.

[@user-fu1bh3dt2c]

Please keep us posted on this project!

[@cornfieldcustoms]

You bet I will!

[@matthewfolbre1635]

I did 67 mustang convertible all new NOS metal from the firewall forward, new floors and complete three stage paint. It went from my shop to the transmission shop and then back to mine cause the transmission shop ran it into another customers car and destroyed the front end.

[@joewolf4483]

A little on the intimidating side but cool video ... I like the news letter idea ...

[@cornfieldcustoms]

Thanks! I hope to have some more exciting stuff coming.

[@jamesdisney9150]

13:05 It looks like the car still twisted when I seen that I was like what the heck but maybe it’s just the bracing

[@cornfieldcustoms]

@@jamesdisney9150 🤷🏻‍♂️ guess you will just have to take my word for it that its not

[@xozindustries7451]

Did the other shop think they were building a bridge? That’s an insane amount of metal you took out of there

[@metalartcustomsLLC]

Do you use a weld through primer for areas you can’t get to after

[@cornfieldcustoms]

@@metalartcustomsLLC yes

[@peterouellette3874]

Very good explanation

[@cornfieldcustoms]

Thanks, I appreciate it!

[@rongamble9884]

I always love getting incompetent work in my shop as well that has to be reworked I wish people that aren't experienced would stop pretending they are know exactly how you feel

[@SimonPEdwards63]

Those old welds look like the came from a dogs back-end

[@richardoswald3970]

As usual 👍👍keep up the good work 😊

[@cornfieldcustoms]

Thanks

[@michaelhallas6450]

Looking forward when you remake the rear wheel wells . Question all the Cleco holes and the Rosette welds are all done with a tig welder ? Not to much mig welding or none at this point ? Thanks

[@cornfieldcustoms]

@@michaelhallas6450 yes all clecos will be rossette welded with the tig. 99.9% of all of my work is tig work

[@michaelhallas6450]

@ Thank you

[@ChannelJanis]

Great work! How will you or customer or the next owner know, what parts they need for this car? Will he have a list, like tail lights from 70's mustang, rear shock absorbers from another car or the owner just will have to know or research what kind of part that is, that needs to be replaced when it wears out? I love how these high effort custom cars look, but I have no clue, how people are able to maintain them. I know what parts my 2010 VW Passat needs, because every other 2010 VW Passat in general has the same parts.

[@cornfieldcustoms]

@@ChannelJanis when i build a car it comes with a book of detailed work notes and parts lists.

[@bfdozer]

What brand or type of glass cleaner do you use? Spray bottle ( blue color), aerosol can (foamy)?

[@cornfieldcustoms]

@@bfdozer spayway in an aerosol can

[@biglakehotrods381]

He made a good choice. That’s an expensive car now but well worth it.

[@iiredeyeiiredeye1569]

Did you inspect the fixture before you made decisions on the chassis? I noticed that your fixture is a welded tubular construction rather than a surface plate with machined locations.

[@cornfieldcustoms]

@@iiredeyeiiredeye1569 Inspect it for what?

[@dennisschickling2249]

Nice Video. Thanks. #STAYSAFE #PHILLYPHILLY 🇺🇸

[@kennethstaszak9990]

Man is that a lot of hackery to undo. Big project or small as long as the customer wants to pay the hourly rate.

[@cannednolan8194]

Lots of work. Will look good when done. Will leave classic mustang guys trying to figure out all the mods.

[@gsxrdrama9025]

Would ledding be the trick instead of edge welding 🤔.most likely a dumb question but I had to ask

[@cornfieldcustoms]

no

[@gsxrdrama9025]

@cornfieldcustoms ok. Im just trying to learn tricks and be more valuable at my job. I work at cjrc. Check them out on here if you want

[@jimzivny1554]

I've helped friends with cars that were built by blind plumbers and we had to start over. Like everything else if the foundation is bad it'll never be right no matter how many bandaids you put on it

[@pamdunn8454]

the devil's in the detail

[@lenturtle7954]

If you add any paint etc its no longer original in this case its better . You see a lot of restored vehicles that look like the donor but are light years better .

[@Kimmels_garage]

Why not replace the whole quarter if they had been replaced once already? Then you wouldn’t have to do all that work in the wheel well removing that garbage work. And you already bought another set to use for those rear sections. Just curious

[@cornfieldcustoms]

the rest of the quarter panel is decent over all. with the way they welded it all in there to get the outer quarter skin off it would involve destroying the inner door jams, and some of the interior and convertible top metal. I made the executive decision that it was not worth all of that to replace the full quarter

[@RS-gh2mf]

It might have been cheaper and faster, to order all new pieces and build it from scratch 😂

[@cornfieldcustoms]

Thats pretty much what i did

[@ginfizz20]

What is the owner's vision for this car. He had the entire car reworked but evidently recognized that the work was NOT good. So he comes to you and says fix it ; and while you are at it I like a certain year hood and I like "X" year tail lights and, and, and. So is his idea. to have a "restored" Mustang, or a "Custom" Mustang, a "show car" or what.

[@cornfieldcustoms]

@@ginfizz20 he just wants a mustang with all of his favorite deign features of the early mustangs.