The next thing that I had to do to the Mustang was clean off the remaining windshield glass and crud from the border where the tar was still at, along with the tar, in preparation to try and straighten out the roof. After scraping the tar and glass and crud from the top of the windshield frame I brought out the sledge hammer.
I commenced to hammering a point right behind the A pillar to try and get things straight. That didn't pan out too well. The A pillar is actually pretty damn tough and wasn't really giving like I thought it might. I ended up having to cut the A pillar out then pounding the roof up. I had to actually wedge a piece of pipe under the roof to hold it straight prior to welding the A pillar piece back in. I did have to pound the piece to straighten it out since it was still bent some, which was no big deal. With that I went ahead and welded the A pillar back in place. The weld was relatively shitty, it was only necessary to hold things in place, no weight bearing no real stresses would be applied to this section of the car body. With that I moved on to the "interior". As the picture shows, the roof was dented right above the windshield. While I could've tried to pound out this dent, I figured it wasn't really necessary to try to straighten out since I will be welding sheet metal over the windshield opening anyway. The dent is really just a cosmetic thing for all intents. On the inside though, the first thing I wanted to do was try to remove the broken glass from what's left of the floor and while I was at it from the ground underneath the body too since the glass will need to come up at some point. I spent a good amount of time just vacuuming up glass and picking out larger pieces to throw in the trash bag and picking out pine needles and other shit that didn't need to go in the trash. After getting most of the glass from the small section of the floor and the large opening where the floor is gone I pulled the reciprocating saw to cut a section of the floor out. I cut the floor from the beginning of the back seat area forward to where the back of the front seats would've been at. A section the length of the width of the body and about a foot or so in width front to back was removed. I'll be cutting the floor out in sections, especially since I have the front subframe and the crossmember to contend with. I really don't need to worry about the crossmember since there isn't going to be an engine or tranny in the car, but it would be nice to be able to keep these structural supports to help in making the floor to the coop nice and strong and rigid later. The work continues.
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