Coats of many colors

As mentioned earlier, we have found many colors on this 46 year old car, depending on what part of the car you look at. We know the original color was Wimbledon White, and including in no particular order, Yellow, Orange, Red, Green and Blue.
In conversations some people have advised the project will go much quicker if we just paint over everything, but we want to know that we have done it right, in taking it down to the bare metal, having all proper body work done, and having a professional apply the primer and paint.

How many hours does it take to remove five bolts?

With the proper equipment and skill, it should take less than a minute to remove one bolt. Unfortunately this afternoon, I had neither :)
The left front fender has a number of 1/2 inch bolts holding it in from top to bottom, front to back, and there were five in particular that have not moved in the 46 years since this car was built, and they reminded me of that every time I tried to turn one. Two of the bolts had a rounded head, but thanks to a rounded-bolt head-remover, I got two of them off.
The main problem was it would have been easier if I could have flipped the car over on its back but unfortunately that was not going to happen. Imagine lying on your back with a socket wrench in one hand, a box-end wrench in the other hand, and Hulk Hogan executing a textbook Figure 4 Leg Lock or the Boston Crab submission hold on you, as you try to remove the bolt. That would have been more conformable without a doubt.
I did successfully remove the right front fender and only one bolt now holds the left front fender, which hopefully I will remove tomorrow night if I can find a deep well socket and all goes well.
In an effort to make putting it back together easier, I began a new technique today that I wish I had done when the project began. On the very first day Benjamin and I put every nut and bolt in a zip-lock bag and Benjamin wrote on the outside where they went, but today, in addition to the zip-lock bag technique, I also took a picture with my camera phone and on the outside of the bag numbered today's projects, 1-11. I plan to print out each picture and put it in the plastic bag so it will show exactly where the bolts go. That way if I am eaten by a pack of wild dingos, which is not really how I want to go, everyone will know where each bolt goes exactly.
So far so good........

More about the car.......

We want to know more about the history about this car, and the tag above does tell us a lot. It is a 1965, the original color was Wimbledon White, it had a red and white interior, and that is about all I am certain of at this point. There are websites that explain what the codes mean, but I am not 100-percent certain on all of it now.

We do know it has been painted multiple times, including, but not limited to, Wimbledon White, Red, Yellow, Black, Green and Blue. We will definitely get all of these old coats of paint off and after all body work is done, apply a shiny new coat of red.

My brother, Dr. Ben Smith of Troy, Alabama, purchased a slightly used (for some reason you can't buy a new 1965 model) Mustang coupe, that we will restore over the next three years before his son Benjamin turns 16. I am Ben's older brother Dan.
Yes, it has some rust damage, but we believe it was a great buy and has great potential.

This is our plan:
We want to completely strip the car down, removing every nut, bolt, wire and all paint and build a great car that will also be a daily driver.
On Monday, July 25, 2011, my brother Ben, his brother-in-law Steve Stokes, Benjamin and I began the project. Steve and Ben got the car to actually crank and we drove the car down the Shellhorn Road and was amazed at a number of things.
First of all, it has no power steering and no disc brakes, so that got our attention in a hurry. Next, the 302 automatic had some good power.

Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Benjamin and I began the deconstruction project. we removed the rear bumper, the front bumper, the front headlights and related housings, we removed the front hood and the rear trunk lid. We both broke a very good sweat and called it a day.

Thursday, July 28, 2011
I removed both doors and began removing bolts to the front left and right fenders, and assorted trim.

Saturday, July 30, 2011
On this date I removed more trim including a plate below the rear bumper that includes the two backup taillights, what remained of a melted-beyond-recognition plastic dash, and worked hard to remove the final bolts on the right front fender.