Levi Zoesch Pro-Touring 69 Ford Maverick MEGA Build

Alright, I think its time to kick a thread off. I have been working on this car for almost 2 years now.

I will admit some of the photos I will be posting will show the lack of experience that I have now learned, and or learning now.

This will be my first solo restoration -- I am trying to do everything by myself 100%. If I could start over, I would and do things probably a little crazier.

The goal with my build is to have a Pro-Street Weekend Drag Maverick.

Enjoy


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When I first received the car was Christmas Day 2010 by saving up my money along with what I had got from Christmas If I recall correctly I even had to barrow a 100$ from the wife's xmas cash to make it happen -- Anddd if I recall correctly I never gave it back to her haha...


I originally was going to just paint the car and begun the sanding/cleaning process. At the time I didn't have a stable job, and was going through a rough patch financially to do anything more.

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Back story on the car

1969.5 Ford Maverick with 51,000 miles on the car -- The car was owned by a old lady who rarely used it. She was the originally purchaser for the maverick.

I received the car from the family of the elderly lady who was unfortunately was placed into a home.

I purchased the Maverick $500.

Car had some parking lot damage -- From what the family explained is that the car had been backed until by a pickup truck caving the rear 1/4 panel which had been repaired with 3" thick bondo and welded small tears in a few places.

Aside from that the car was mechanically sound, and rust free. The rust you will see within the build is just light surface rust -- Trust me, it is not that bad Which to this day I could kiss the old lady for keeping the car in the garage compared to MANY MANY others on this forum.

I will post pictures and back story periodically.

 

I'll be following your build, Levi

 

I'll be watching!

 

After talking to a few people and my cousin convincing me to not just paint it, but to do a full blown resto on it. So, I started ripping everything out in prep to go to sandblast.

 

I'll be checking it out in person!

 

I might have to do the same, never know when I might end up in Spokane.

 

If you sandblast the car you will destroy it. Make sure you get it media blasted.

 

These photos and bback story is almost two years ago. I am posting periodic ally to catch up to my current point in my build.

 

I will be following this thread! Great work so far!

 

Looking forward to following along.

 

So I take it you didn't warp anything

 

Nothing warped -- The media blaster did it in several steps to prevent warp.

Here is some pictures before media.

Again, Lack of experience and not quite acknowledging how much of a pain in the ass it would be not to just DO the entire shell/car

At the time i was lived off of 14k a year and every decision was based off of $. If I could redo it now, I would have the entire car - every square inch soda blasted.

I also didnt think I was going to go crazy -- I wanted to leave it running LOL wtf was I thinkin?

 

A Few days later I had received the car back all clean...

 

here are some more

 

Looks really good, I've been following you and will continue to.