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Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! We started the new year at Three Lions Garage with a marathon 12 hour session on the Mustang.  Most of the day was spent on prepping and installing the rollbar and rear rollbar supports.  

Boxing Day at Three Lions Garage

today we: Repaired the broken side tabs on the clock panel, replaced correct interior fasteners installed the dash and instrumentation, painted the steering column, fabricated a replacement for a broken carriage bolt started prepping the roll bar and checked the fit. as an added bonus, we had a surprise visit from Linda and Tinkerbell.

Three Lions Garage is busy again

I spent an enjoyable 14 hours on Christmas Day working on the Mustang with Jack.  We modified clutch mount; cut brake pedal; installed accelerator, brake and clutch pedals; installed hydraulic clutch master; installed heater and underdash vents.  Time flies when you’re having fun.  

Thank you Dennis & Bob…love the photos!

Sports Car Digest posted an excellent report with stunning photos of this year’s California Mille today in which I found a great photo of us in the ’27 Rally taken by Sports Car Digest Contributor/Photographer Dennis Gray and another beautiful photo taken by Bob Ross (also of Sports Car Digest) you can read Dennis’s excellent […]

Moving forward

As expected, cleaning the car hasn’t been the most enjoyable part of the restoration, but after all, somebody has to do it. Glass abrasive appears to have caked itself over everything, even some areas that haven’t seen sunlight since the car was assembled back in ’69. Needless to say, it’s been tough work. In addition to […]

The Night Shift

because of our busy schedules, we fit the work in when we can.  This has caused us to institute the Three Lions Garage night shift.  The funny thing is…it’s our only shift lately.  As they say: “You gotta do what you gotta do”.

All the more reason to finish my car…

I am now a licensed driver in the State of California, official as of last Monday. If you value your life, stay off of the roads. I sometimes resort to self-inflicted verbal abuse when I fall this far behind in my posting. In this case, however, I’ve had excuse enough: PROGRESS! Yes, I have managed to […]