Oh Lordy, I now own a Fordy (a Lincoln actually)..

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Interior all cleaned up and back together. Smells a lot nicer! (according to my wife who has an actual functioning sense of smell).

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More mission creep. Still ridding the car of old car smell. I removed all the trunk lining panels and tar paper and cleaned it it all out and scrubbed the sheetmetal.

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Then I washed and scrubbed the panels and separated the fiberboard backing pieces and wet them down as well. That way I could apply some 2x4s and weights overnight to get them flat again. They were all buckled and bowed from years of being half-attached and half-hanging. Luckily it was hot and sunny yesterday and today so they all came out clean and pressed nicely.

Looks like the floor section was the victim of a spilled can of oil around a half century ago. Hence the black stain.

I then used some spray adhesive to reattach the backing panels and installed everything.

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And voila! The finished product. And the trunk smells so much nicer now. I gotta tell you, it was somewhat disconcerting to have to climb all the way into the trunk to clean the upper shelf area where the spare tire goes. I was completely inside the trunk and at the mercy of the Lincoln in case it decided to go "Christine" on me. I did place the shop-vac hose over the edge of the bumper just in case the trunk lid decided to come down and lock me in. I did also clean and reinstall the original section of green outdoor carpet that my grandfather hand-cut in 1971 to protect the floor. Still fits perfeclty!

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Took her out to the local cruise night for a celebratory drive. Finally hit the 1,000 mile break-in point for the engine rebuild from 2018!

I got to park next to a friend's 1967 Shelby GT350 with 12,000 miles on it,

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After seeing the Marti Report that my friend had for his Shelby I decided to finally order one for the Lincoln. I order the Elite report which has everything including the window sticker reproduction. That's the one document we don't have for the car. I also learned that Marti has the original invoices for a certain number of cars built in this era. When I reviewed that option on their site, it included our Lincoln based on the first digits of the VIN. Fingers crossed, they will be able to provide it. Now the waiting begins!

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Originally Posted by njsteve

And voila! The finished product. And the trunk smells so much nicer now. I gotta tell you, it was somewhat disconcerting to have to climb all the way into the trunk to clean the upper shelf area where the spare tire goes. I was completely inside the trunk and at the mercy of the Lincoln in case it decided to go "Christine" on me. I did place the shop-vac hose over the edge of the bumper just in case the trunk lid decided to come down and lock me in. I did also clean and reinstall the original section of green outdoor carpet that my grandfather hand-cut in 1971 to protect the floor. Still fits perfeclty!

The bad guys could easily fit a few bodies in that trunk, it’s huge!
I think I have watched to many mafia movies!
Great work, fun to watch!

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Looking at the trunk side panels, doesn't it look like two sideways facing bench seats? Like the old country squire wagons with the double-facing 3 seats in the far back? (My old seating position back in the day...hence my expression. And yeah, that's me wearing the cardigan. It's mid-August, 1970 and I had to wear it because one of my mother's aunts handmade it and we might accidentally see her during that vacation trip).

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I finally had the sketchy frame repairs that were done 33 years ago properly repaired. These battleships tend to hold water in the rear frame rail kick-out area (same spot as mid-year Corvettes). When the car was repainted back in 1992, the body guy used a stick welder and some metal brackets to make slap on patches which her then welded to each other like fish scales. Worked for three decades.

We have a local shop (50 miles away actually) that does absolutely amazing frame repairs. Their main job is WoolWax undercoating but they have a side business that started when someone posted their work on a Toyota FJ Land Cruiser page. Now they have FJ's from all over the country on a waiting list for the frame repairs. Garden State Undercoating: https://www.facebook.com/search/top?...20undercoating

Contact info: Chris at Garden State Undercoating, 126 Route 46 , Saddle Brook, New Jersey (973) 343-9775, [email protected]

Here's the product page for the woolwax itself. You can buy it from them in bulk. https://www.woolwaxusa.com/

They main welder is a retired Ukrainian tank mechanic. Watching this guy work is mesmerizing. It's like a balloon animal artist at a kid's birthday party. He cuts out the bad area, just looks at the missing space and then miraculously hammers out exact duplicate patches. He's like a human CNC machine.

They repaired/welded/primed and painted both frame rails and one hole in the driver's side wheel well by the rocker panel, in a couple days and then wool-waxed the entire underside after wire brushing and sanding the entire frame.

I'm glad I finally did it because it turned out that the only portion of those areas remaining were the fish scale repair patches. The underlying rusty frame spots had totally dissolved to dust.

Here's the driver's side which was much worse than the passenger side.