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Once I had the car home I cleaned the entire garage before I brought it inside. When its time to put things together the cleaner the environment the better. With the casters removed and the body back on milkcrates, I installed the new darkgreen headliner and sailpanels. The back edges of the headliner and sailpanels are glued to the rear window lip, so they had to be installed first.
It took me 4 hours to install the headliner, but it came out perfect. I used a mustang restoration guide for helpfull hints on the installation. However, the instructions for 69/70 were not correct so I had to wing-it at the end. I found a mistake Ford made on my car when I was installing the headliner. The metal piece that goes along the inside roof where the front coat hook attaches was welded inside-out. This makes the front coat hood recess into the headliner instead of standing proud. Too late to fix now.
I installed the rear window glass next using a new weather seal and lots of urethane sealer to keep it from leaking.

With the headliner and rear glass in, I turned to the firewall and lower dash components. Here's the inside firewall all ready to go.

The first thing that got installed was the pedal support assembly.

Next to go in was the firewall pad. There isn't an original looking reproduction for this part. What I did was clean the original with lacquer thinner and gave it a thin coat of high quality rubberized undercoating. The kind that hardens. It perfect.

Next to go in was the kick panel vents and the heater box assembly.

Then the went in the e-brake assembly w/cable (notice the original white inspection mark that was faithfully reproduced), accelerator pedal and upper heat vent. Notice that I installed the two black wire retainers (on either side of the pedal support) ? These were helpful. They held the wires out of the way when I hubng the lower dash.

Here it is with the lower dash installed, which includes the heater controls, an original AM radio and the ashtray assembly. It should be noted that all of these parts were restored and sitting in a spare room waiting to go back on the car. This kept them clean.

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