Mustang Restoration Tips & Techniques
  From Hot Rod magazine 100s of how-to tips for pre-1973 Mustang owners including rust & dent repair, painting, engine detailing, boosting horsepower, doors, interiors, and much more.
Table of Contents:
- How to buy a used Mustang: What to look for (and avoid) in your next purchase.
- Sheetmetal surgery: How to repair rust the right way.
- Rust redemption: How to repair that Pony's sheetmetal.
- Mustang Ranchero: When this Pony hauls, it hauls.
- Quick fix: How to make spot dent repairs.
- Quarter panel exhange: Working the sheetmetal into a new body panel.
- Body building: A pooped-out Pony becomes a super stallion.
- Restore that door: Make your doors look like new.
- A fender with flare: Installing steel fender flares.
- Candy coupe: Paint tricks make a stock body a masterpiece.
- Lettering ABCs: An easy guide to custom lettering.
- Inside job: Modifying your Mustang interior for super comfort and looks.
- Cleaning house: How to detail a Mustang engine compartment.
- Details, details: Attending to loose ends before letting it loose.
- Restoring an interior: A tremendous selection of Mustang replacement parts makes new threads a remove-and-replace operation.
- Summer car care: Mustang shape-up for hot weather fun.
- Take note: Stereo installation for the virtuoso.
- Repro-tection: How to install "Lucky" bumper-ettes.
- Blueprinting the 289: Transforming a junker into a super streeter.
- Shake, rattle & roll: Super-tuning the suspension and tricking up the transmission.
- Bounce back: How to put the spring in your rear suspension.
- Less is better: A suspension swap that lightens the load.
- Handle with care: Everything you've ever wanted to know about Mustang handling.
- Charged up: Increase your horsepower by at least 50%.
- Great lines: How to install braided stainless steel lines.
- Horse power.
- Bringing up to rear: Mustang rearend selection.
- They part out dead horses... don't they? How to save money with parts cars.
- Going, going, GONE! Expert advice on Mustang auctions.
From the Publisher:
Bruce Caldwell and the editors of Hot Rod have earned an enviable reputation ove the years for publishing clear, informative, technical articles covering automotive upkeep, repair and restoration. Among these fine pieces have been many on Mustangs, a car they greatly admire. They were amongst the first to recognize thay the early Mustangs were modern classics and fulfilled their readers needs by writing a series of stories that helped them maintain and improve their vehicles.
Armed with their easy-to-follow picture sequences and comprehensive instructions many a timid owner has been encouraged to tune his 289 or improve the handling of his 350GT.
Unfortunately todays owners of Mustangs find it almost impossible to locate these early articles and with this in mind we have collected what we think are the most useful and valuable of the series and combined them into a book.
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