June 22, 2015 - Chassis dropped off!

Here is what I got delivered on June 22, 2015 from my buddy.  He knew I was itching to get started on it and he figured this would keep me busy for a while.  The rear end he had threw on there temporarily (from his 68 firebird) so that he could roll it around at his shop and also bring it to my house was on loan so I could roll it around.

My plan was to take off the front suspension and go with the mustang ii IFS.  The next day, off came the front suspension and existing crossmember (except for the radiator support portion).

I did a bunch of research and I decided to go with the heidts front crossmember.  Ordered that from heidts.  Ordered it, came quickly, however the guy sent me the wrong year "chevy" crossmember that had too big of a gap to fix so he had to have them make me a new one and ship it to me.  They were really great to deal with, and even though it set me back, they didn't give me any grief.  I used the boxing plats from the first order and welded those in, then took it outside and started sandblasting the frame with my harbor freight $90 blaster.

As you can see I also took the rear end off and returned that to my friend.  I rolled it around on a 4 wheel dolly and picked it up with my backhoe to blast and prime the bottom.