My 1970 Mach 1

The entire floorpan under the car was painted with Eastwood's Rust Encapsulator, we used the red to duplicate
the red oxide this San Jose built car was painted originally. This very tough paint should serve us well for protection.

All surfaces from the rear valance panel to the front frame rails were coated, duplicating the way the car was painted.

Most of the car's original paint was intact, making it easy to replicate the original factory paint treatment.

Just like Ford built it...

The original leaf springs were in terrific shape, and the color stripes were still very visible, two yellow and two brown stripes identify
these as the correct 351C 4V springs, which were also used for the 428 Cobra Jet cars, according to my manual. They sure are stiff
springs, the last few decades seems to not have fazed them in the least. I rebushed them and reassembled with new slider pads.

I cleaned and treated the springs with Eastwood's OxySolv, then coated them with acrylic satin, and faithfully reproduced the stripes,
being careful to 'not make them too perfect' just as the factory workers did in December 1969, when my car was originally built.

These are the correct rear shackles Mustangs with dual exhaust used. The left hand shackle has the bottom nut on the side
opposite from the tail pipe extension. If you don't used this shackle, the nut abrades a hole in the tail pipe extension, which mine
had, because someone had replaced the shackle with the wrong type. Little details like this make quite a bit of difference.

I was able to see the original paint daub on the rear sway bar and duplicate it in the
exact position, size and shape, and even mixed the paint in the correct shade of blue.

It's exactly as it was when it was new. The bar itself was painted with POR-15 semigloss black.

We hung the rear, note the KYB gas shocks and stainless steel brake lines.

I even had to hunt down the correct style of band clamps for the leaf springs.

Just like Ford built it in December 1969.