I Found an ABANDONED Mustang From The 60's To Detail!

Hey guys, today begins the restoration process on this

abandoned

1969 Ford Mustang that has spent the last 20 years sitting in a barn collecting dust and pooping. About 2 months ago, the owner first contacted me to ask if I would be interested in cleaning his entire Mustang and after juggling schedules in the Old Man winter, the time had come for the Mustang to finally see the light of day again. after 20 years inside this barn. I'll show you more about the car in a minute, but for now it was time to chain the car up and put it on a trailer and then head out to my studio.

Once in the yard, we tied the trailer up to the studio door, quickly unbuckled it, and then just pulled it out, but of course. It wasn't quite aligned so we maneuvered it back and forth a little and had it positioned nicely over the drain pit now that we have it in. I spent a few minutes chatting with Brandon about the car and his plans for it, which I'll share with you in a few minutes, but soon after he was on his way and it was time to take a closer look at what I'll have to face. , since you can imagine that 20 years inside a barn is going to make a big difference. number on any vehicle but this

mustang

here looks like it has taken a beating over the last two decades, the paint is in a horrendous state from all the bird droppings and it also looks like there was one or two four legged animals walking on it in sometime.

So I'm already very curious to see how well I can leave it today, but I took a look inside the car and at first glance it seems to be in good condition, but the radioactive poison on the floor tells a different story, so I'm sure I'll find one or two surprises later when I tear off the interior, but until then make sure you're subscribed to the channel and leave a like on this video if you're excited to see how the car turns out. ok today guys, after sitting in a barn for 20 years I'm not taking any chances so I'm going to go ahead and use some of my all purpose cleaner as a pre-soak before hitting the paint with the pressure washer but For the eagle-eyed viewers will have noticed that the car lost a giant chunk of paint on the bonnet between the time it was in the barn and the time it arrived at my studio, which means I have to be very careful too. with the pressure washer. since the paint is brittle and I don't want to remove it anymore.

Now, at this point in power washing the car, it's still a little hard to tell what shape the paint is really in because, as you know, everything looks better when it's wet, so I'll have a better idea a little later, a once you have washed and dried the car. Starting on the hood where most of the bird droppings are and from what I've seen so far the APC is doing quite a bit. good as a pre-o agent so I didn't think I needed to move on to the degreaser, but after seeing how stuck it is in bird poop I probably could have stepped it up, though unless it just means it will take a little longer with the pressure washer to make sure I have removed everything while being very careful not to remove any more paint from the hood.

After looking at the hood earlier, I decided to take out the degreaser for this vinyl top since it was covered in bird poop 2, but if you're wondering why I'm doing the top of the car last, it's simply because I wanted to keep all the other shots for you guys, so if I wasn't making this video right now. I definitely would have started here as top down is the smartest way to

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the exterior. Now using some of my wheel and rim cleaner which of course you can find on my website at Detail Geek Autoc Care.com I will absolutely get them.

Dirty wheels are cleaned using a variety of brushes and a little elbow grease now, whereas this is usually a slightly less important

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step when a vehicle has been sitting for 20 years, that means there is dirt everywhere and I mean everywhere, so I wear my hair boring. detailing brush I'll use it around every crack and crevice around the outside of the car to make sure I've removed every bit of dirt stuck to the car and okay, now that I've got the Mustang washed and dried, I'm going to turn my attention to the engine primer where the 302 small block V8 resides and as you can see it's pretty dirty under here so the first step before you start with the oiler is to cover the air filter to keep any water out. into the carburetor and then as usual I'll use a variety of brushes to clean things up, although I want to emphasize that this is just a quick detail to make things look presentable as I'd have to be dismantling them. and clean them off the car if the goal was perfectly clean, 55 years of grease and grime will not come off with a 5 second scrubbing and since the engine hasn't run for that long and won't for a while yet I will use the washer at pressure for a quick rinse.

The next step is to start working on the inside, so while I still have the pressure washer and the floor is wet, I will spray the floor mats, but first I need to Vacuum up all the rat poison in here, as I certainly don't want this spread across the studio floor and once that's done I'll use my carpet cleaner and drill brush to loosen the decades of dirt and hopefully get this floor. The carpet looks new again, having recently done a 1967 Mustang. I know that the seat bolts must be accessed from underneath the car rather than from the inside like in modern vehicles, so luckily the car it has a little bit of ground clearance and I have enough room to squeeze underneath to remove the four rubber plugs on each side and then put a /2 socket in there to unbolt the seats and yes I had to be very careful not to drop anything here while working. above the drainage hole and I certainly didn't feel like fishing through the mud to retrieve anything.

Good with the seats outside the car. Now I have a better idea of ​​what I'm dealing with here, but as always it's easier. to clean things up outside the car, so I'll quickly unscrew and remove all the seat belts and then also remove the door sill plates. Now once I removed the back seat, unfortunately I

found

a giant mouse nest and piles of mous droppings which Not too surprising after seeing the rat poison before, the last step before vacuuming is to clean the trunk and Fortunately this was much smoother than the last Mustang as I had to crawl into the car to unlock the latch mechanism and

found

live mice while doing so now, if you haven't seen that video yet I recommend you watch it, since it was one of the craziest details I've ever done, while using my tent to absorb the largest number of flocks. and whatever else is in here so it doesn't have to go through my back center lines.

I thought I would give you the background I have on the car, so Brendan, the owner, has had the car since he was about 10 years old. I guess he was always a big Mustang fan and found this one at a car dealer so his dad bought it for him only his older brother got to drive it first of course once he turned 16 it was his car and he He drove it for many years until one day I parked it in the barn forever and now that he's a little older and has the time he wants to completely restore it and he already has a guy lined up to do the body work so I hope it's not too long and You'll have this classic back on the road by putting some rubber on, of course no detail like this would be complete without dead mice, so here are the rotting bodies of three baby mice that their mother probably

abandoned

many, many years ago, but it was not like that. just dead mice I found under the seat here.

I also discovered a crusty old watch, so I'll set it aside to return to the owner in case it means something to him. He's with you now because my middle R has more suction. than my workshop V and there is still a little bit of trash left on the carpet. I'm going to check it again to try to get it as clean as possible before I start extracting. just just just just just just just getting to work on the carpet now that after vacuuming it seems to be in pretty good shape and while you'll usually hear me say that carpet and older vehicles are always nice, luxurious and good quality, Well, that's not always the case, as the carpet on this

mustang

is nice and thick, yes. but it is a bit strange material and not very soft, but that being said, I still think that today I will leave it almost new.

Now they are just starting on the last section of the rug and for those of you who enjoy watching them. Old abandoned cars cleaned to look new again. Well, I've made a few of them now and I've even started a playlist so you can enjoy them all at once if you want, so feel free to check them out because they have Everything has been pretty crazy, detailed, here's what the powerful suck from the Mustang today. Now, as I continue to clean the car, it looks like most of the interior is in excellent condition, which means the owner probably won't need to get many parts for it. restoration, but even if you did, there are quite a few companies that produce parts for these cars or you could always try to source original parts as well.

Ford made almost 300,000 of these 69 Mustangs, so there might be a reasonable chance of finding suitable OEM parts for this dirty rear end. seat of course I will be using my leather cleaner and steamer today and even though this is a vinyl seat my leather cleaner will still do a great job of restoring it to looking new again. Now that I got the SE boards. Clean I'll start with the seat belts, which I know I've seen tons of comments on over the years asking me if I clean them or not and of course the answer is yes.

Steam and my all-purpose cleaner will easily remove decades of grime. and the dirt loosened up so I could clean it off aahah oh ok it's time to turn my attention to the paint on this mustang so with some of my finishing polish and a microfiber cutting pad I'll get to work polishing This old and very rusty paint, but I want to warn you that this is simply done in an effort to give the paint some shine again and after seeing the results, I would say it will look amazing. Much better when it's done, starting with the hood and you'll quickly see that this car desperately needs repainting, something the owner intends to do once he's got all the rust and body work taken care of, as well as me.

I mentioned a minute ago that I'm just doing this to try to make the car look as good as possible for Brandan. You can see that the paint is in very poor condition here and despite my best efforts it will only look very good, but when you see the before and after on the hood here. I think you'll see that this had to be done today. Another necessary step today is to polish all the chrome and for that I am using my corrective compound since it has a little bit. a little more than the final polish and in about a minute the Chrome looks almost new again.

Okay guys, the second to last step here is to coat the vinyl top here and normally I would highlight the UV protection that 303 offers, but in this case, the boat has already sailed, although it will still revive it and make it look amazing. She said she found it. Well, there you have it, guys. 13 hours of work went into the Mustang today to bring it back to life, but not the work. Stop there as the owner will also have quite a ways to go before he can get it back on the road, but man, if he does it will be a nice little car to ride around anyway if you enjoyed watching this. transformation, make sure to hit the like button and subscribe to the channel and I'll see you in the next one.