I would build it like the 68 in the movie Christine!!! Blue with some Cragar S/S!!!!

Save your cash on the daytona clone parts and build a 496 stroker from muscle motors and keep the "sleeper" image alive on this car!! Daytonas are cool, but clones of them are played out!

The engine could be a 440 , would need a close look at the front of the engine to verify....just across from the dist.

here's a link to some pics> http://s1284.beta.photobucket.com/user/daytonakid/library/68%20charger

sorry, try it now> http://s1284.beta.photobucket.com/user/daytonakid/library/68%20charger

My my...you have absolutely got yourself a project there...good luck and hang in there...

in front of the intake, to the drivers side of the distributer, if there is a flat pad, about the width of 3 fingers, it's a 440. if the pad is there it will be stamped with a letter, then the engine size. example E440 would be 1969 440.
looks like a great project, and I vote for the Christine Charger!

I gota remove the ac unit to see that area, will do soon..Does the color mean anything?. This one is blue. Are the 383s blue? I saw a blue 440 somewhere.

OK, It is a 383, I see a B on the block. I want to make some HP with a motor. I may have found a 78 new-yorker or something like that with a 440 in it, running for $800. Would I be able to make more HP cheaper,easier or be better off with that 440 rather than the 383? I am willing to put a couple grand or so in the motor rebuild. Thinking of building a mild but stout motor and adding a nitrous system for when I go to the local strip.

Just build the 383, it will be great with nitrous.

Rgr tht SF,
I found some bad rust on the 2 rear frame beams.,I,ve got a rotisserie ready for it when I get it apart, but scared to bolt it to a the rusty a$$ beams before I replace or repair them....
So how much more trouble/$ would it be to tub it? and put in a roll cage, etc.? Did you tub your Coronet? If so I sure would like to see some pics and get some info on how to do it if you would be so kind.

Check my project out in this section - ( Carpenters Special ) I have the whole build documented. I made my own frame rails but if one is not to savy with the tools then you can buy a back half kit from quite a few vendors. If you don't want to tubb it get some replacement rails and change the old ones out. Tubbing is a lot of work when you make everything needed including all the brackets. I am doing my car for the fun of it because I really enjoy working on cars. It has been a learning process and I would definitely have done things differently had I known better but hay....... now I know better.

I forgot to add that I am totally an old school big tire car guy so I say tubb it........... you won't be sorry until after you add up the receipts. Where abouts are you located?

Robert

I live in the midsouth of America.Why? I found a great series of vids on youtube about tubbing and restoring B bods. And saw some about mini tubbing?, Do you have to move the frame rails and leafs and cut axles to mini tub?

When you mini tub the frame rails stay in the stock location. You can buy a kit for mini tubbing which moves the springs inboard. The kit has two boxes that go into the lower frame rail which you have to cut and then weld the boxes in. The rear shackles will mount on the frame rails. Then you separate the wheel houses and add a piece in between after cutting the trunk floor on either side.

That sounds like the way to go for me. THnx for sharing that.

OK, I think I have decided on how I'm going to go back up with this car. I enjoyed drag racing in my younger years so I'm am going to make it into a streetable strip ripper. Think I may paint it red (maybe fake r/t) with black (partial) interior, .,mini tubs for street legal M/T fatty radial slicks. I am going to find a 440 and stroke it to 500ci pump gasable with 10-1 or so pistons, aluminum heads, mild cam.
That said, I don't see much point of puting a lot back factory dress. I'm not going to be driving it that much and won't need stuff like the ac, heater, radio, back seat, etc.. I'm going with 2 semi-racing bucket seats up front, and shiny sheet metal aluminum everywhere inside with maybe a little black carpet. A 6or8 pt roll cage, maybe even wheelie bars. Maybe a 10 gal fuel cell.
I am thinking of selling the stuff I don't need (locally, no shipping), like the seats, console, a/c, etc. About what should I be able to get for the seats? Here is a link to a pic of the fronts., the back seat is same condition as fronts.
http://s1284.beta.photobucket.com/user/daytonakid/media/68%20charger/IMAG0674.jpg.html

Seeing as how you started your thread with a post about value, I thought I'd point out that tubbing and changing it to a resale red partial clone/racecar without an interior is about the worst thing you could possibly do for resale value.

...if you don't care about future value, then ignore the above.


Dave