We currently have a car in our fleet that is really like an oddball in the group. This car is the 73 Mustang, a car we got a couple years back as a project. It turned out to be more than what I really wanted to put into it due to the excessive rust and the simple fact that the cost to restore the car would far exceed what I can get if I tried to sell the car as a B grade resto. So the car sat. And sat. And sat. I had a couple of other plans and ideas for it that after really thinking it over, I said fuck it. I even tried to sell the thing and no one wanted to give me anything for it, most wanted the damn powertrain and not the car, fuck them too. I finally came up with a plan where I would benefit the way I'm supposed to with my shit. That plan was to pull the powertrain and use it in a planned restomod project for the 69 Mustang and then use the body as the basis of a chicken coop. I've seen versions of chicken coops that utilized old car bodies and thought it would be an appropriate use of the body as there was really no future for this body other than a date with the crusher since there was really nothing left worth salvaging from the body. Then the storm came through and put a couple of trees on the body. This definitely sealed the deal with what to do with the body. With the roof and rear crushed by tree, even if I straighten the crushed areas, there is no way to recover the body from the damage. So that definitely sealed the deal with the coop project. The first stage of the project is to start stripping everything from the body, up to and including pulling the powertrain. The first thing I did was pull the hood from the car so I can start removing things from the engine bay. I started removing hoses and cutting tubes from things like brake lines and cooling hoses and what not. Some other items were removed as well. Voltage regulator, master cylinder, wiper motor, etc were removed. Along with removing some of the easier stuff from the engine bay I removed all the loose crap from the trunk. I started a pile for the items removed so I can sort that shit out later. I pulled the taillights out as well since they were technically "loose" at this point. After clearing the trunk I turned my attention to a rather messy part of the project, the broken windshield. Since the windshield was broken and crushed from the roof being crushed by the tree, there was a broken mess of glass and some kind of thin plastic sheeting that I guess was to act as an anti-shatter skin to keep windshield glass from fragging a driver in an accident. The plastic was kind of a mixed blessing as it could've been easier to remove the glass by just vacuuming the fragments versus having to carefully peel the plastic and glass to remove the bulk of the mess. Another issue I had was that the plastic and glass was also sticking to the tar shit that goes around the window frame to hold the windshield in. That shit added another obstacle as I had to carefully pry the tar away little by little to help remove the plastic and glass and tar simultaneously. I was able to vacuum a lot of shards of glass that did free itself up from the plastic but I did have to spend a lot of time picking up individual pieces of broken glass as I worked to clean things up. Eventually I was able to get the bulk of the broken glass and plastic sheeting, leaving a small amount of plastic and glass along the top of the window frame, which will probably be removed with the scraping of the tar to free everything up.
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