After 2 years and 2 body shops there is paint on my Bee
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03/11/12 01:24 AM
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After 2 years,2 body shops and numerous trips to court my old Bee from high school finally has paint on it. In the 27 years I have known this car it finally is looking good. Now the fun of putting it together.
1969 Super Bee High School car I got back
2004 Ram 2500
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Re: After 2 years and 2 body shops there is paint on my Bee
[Re: Mopargnome]
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03/11/12 09:37 PM
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Picked it up this morning and got the engine and trans in this afternoon
1969 Super Bee High School car I got back
2004 Ram 2500
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Re: After 2 years and 2 body shops there is paint on my Bee
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03/12/12 01:39 AM
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The car looks great! Flaky paint and body guys make life hard for everyone! Glad you got it worked out!
Come on now... there are plenty of people who take their cars to shops, then expect the body men to buy all the supplies from there own pocket and think they can just show up and the car will magically be done. I feel bad for the 72 duster sitting here, but the owner must not care.
Anyways, the green looks great on there
68 Road Runner, 69 Belvedere, 71 Challenger Vert 340 barracuda, 01 Ram CTD, 95 Ram, 04 Ram, 85 Daytona turbo Z 66 GTO, 06 Magnum RT AWD. 07 Ram CTD, 07 Ram
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Re: After 2 years and 2 body shops there is paint on my Bee
[Re: Silver70]
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03/12/12 11:56 AM
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The car looks great! Flaky paint and body guys make life hard for everyone! Glad you got it worked out!
Come on now... there are plenty of people who take their cars to shops, then expect the body men to buy all the supplies from there own pocket and think they can just show up and the car will magically be done. I feel bad for the 72 duster sitting here, but the owner must not care.
Anyways, the green looks great on there
I am a paint and body guy so I know the pains of doing that for a living. The flaky ones make everyone think we are all flaky.
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Re: After 2 years and 2 body shops there is paint on my Bee
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03/12/12 01:52 PM
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Thanks all for the compliments. Yes, there are some things that would be easier with out the engine in there, but there are changes coming at the shop I work at and not sure how long I can work on it there. So I got the engine and trans in it and the rest I can do at home in the garage if needed.
1969 Super Bee High School car I got back
2004 Ram 2500
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Re: After 2 years and 2 body shops there is paint on my Bee
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03/12/12 02:03 PM
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Looks Great!! Congrats on Huge Progress.. The hardest part is done, DAMHIK..
Yep - it's all down hill from here
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Re: After 2 years and 2 body shops there is paint on my Bee
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04/04/12 01:26 AM
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Engine, almost ready to fire
1969 Super Bee High School car I got back
2004 Ram 2500
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Re: After 2 years and 2 body shops there is paint on my Bee
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04/04/12 03:52 AM
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Looks fantastic...great job so far! BYW..I happen to like the green myself!
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Re: After 2 years and 2 body shops there is paint on my Bee
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04/04/12 10:39 AM
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Car looks great! Is it an N96 car? Man you've done alot of work in a very short period of time. Re: bodyshops - there are good ones and bad ones; mine was great but you sure hear lots of horror stories out there. glad you got it resolved. Mods; perhaps you can move this to the Projects section, it'll get buried quickly in General and I'd like to see more. Thx. Dave
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1974 'Cuda
2008 Ram 3500 Diesel
2006 Ram 3500 Diesel
2004.5 Ram 2500 Diesel
2003 Ram 3500 Diesel
2006 Durango Limited
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Re: After 2 years and 2 body shops there is paint on my Bee
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04/26/12 12:22 AM
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Finally done in the engine compartment enough to install the fenders.
1969 Super Bee High School car I got back
2004 Ram 2500
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Re: After 2 years and 2 body shops there is paint on my Bee
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04/26/12 12:34 AM
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Another side shot. Get the nose together, final polish, get the glass in and get the emblems on. Then I can start driving it.
1969 Super Bee High School car I got back
2004 Ram 2500
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Re: After 2 years and 2 body shops there is paint on my Bee
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04/26/12 09:30 AM
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Wow I like that car! I don't even care for that green and I like the car. Great stance, looks great.
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Re: After 2 years and 2 body shops there is paint on my Bee
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04/30/12 06:29 PM
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Still more to do, but she was out under her own power.
1969 Super Bee High School car I got back
2004 Ram 2500
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Re: After 2 years and 2 body shops there is paint on my Bee
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06/03/12 02:19 AM
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All back together for her debut at Mopars at Thunder Mountain in the morning. It has been a rough couple of days getting it all back together. If it was not for my friends I would not have made it. Thanks Jeff, Graham, Bodhi and Joe. I will post some pictures of it tomorrow.
1969 Super Bee High School car I got back
2004 Ram 2500
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Re: After 2 years and 2 body shops there is paint on my Bee
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06/03/12 07:59 PM
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Here are some pictures of her first outting. Still some tuning to do and some small details to take care of, but it felt good to get her out finally.
1969 Super Bee High School car I got back
2004 Ram 2500
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Re: After 2 years and 2 body shops there is paint on my
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06/04/12 07:37 PM
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Car looks great, nice job. By the looks of the trailer is this a trailer queen or a driver?
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06/04/12 09:21 PM
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She is a driver. Did not finish at my shop until after midnight and did not want to wake the neighbors on her first night home.
1969 Super Bee High School car I got back
2004 Ram 2500
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