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Eastwood Has a new Project - 1989 Mustang LX 5.0 Project Car
We regularly brag about the fact that we test, design, and dream up new products in-house here at Eastwood. Testing products requires a good rotation of test vehicles and we've had a number of wrecks...
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2013 Eastwood New Years Resolution- Reintroducing our Project Ford Mustang
A while back, we talked about a "Fox Body" Ford Mustang that we picked up off of the local Craigslist with plans of using it to test products and eventually "restore" it. Since then, we've used it...
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Let the Teardown begin- Front End Disassembly
Recently we reintroduced you to our fox body Mustang we've named "Project Resolution". We finally got a chance to start tearing the car down and really see how bad the hidden accident damage was. We...
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Project Resolution Becomes a Shell
We've been VERY busy since our last update. We've decided that the best way to fix the body damage in the inner fender was to remove the 5.0 engine from the Mustang. As we dug in we found all sorts of...
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Project Resolution Phase 3 Teardown
Since our last post we've been busy working on disassembling the car down to just a rolling shell. This meant we had to removed the entire drivetrain and start deciding if we were going to keep the...
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Project Resolution- Paint Stripping and Final Teardown
We've been working on Project Resolution now for a few months and we're finally at a point where we are ready to start going uphill making the car nice again. With the front end removed I was able to...
View ArticleProject Resolution Phase V
Since we last checked in with Project Resolution we had a lot of goals and plans of action on how we were going to repair and restore the car. Since then, things have changed quite a bit! Sometimes we...
View ArticleProject Resolution- Phase Six
We decided to replace the entire front clip after too many nasty accident damage surprises. The crew stripped the donor clip down using our stripping discs and our 100lb Pressure Blaster. Once the new...
View ArticleMustang Project Resolution Phase 7- It's looking like a car again!
On the day of the 2013 Summer Classic our team was still cleaning and detailing the car up until the beginning of the show! We rolled it out mostly complete and the reaction from the spectators was...
View ArticleProject Resolution - The Final Chapter?
Eight months ago, we set out to transform this tired 1989 Fox Body Mustang into a cool cruise night ride, while working with a $7,000 budget. The ultimate goal was to show what a typical "car guy" (or...
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