Finally started! 1972 Dodge Charger Rallye project.
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02/18/18 11:27 PM
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Finally getting started on a long awaited project, factory 340 powered 1972 Dodge Charger Rallye. Been saving up, scraping together, trading and flipping parts to finally put together my childhood dream of owning one of these. Having nearly 25 1971-72 Chargers over the years, this sweetheart of a car was found here in California after the second owner and son decided they could not do the work and decided to sell. Came with built sheet, numbers matching everything 98k original miles and even has paperwork the original owner, which was a little old lady from Washington. It was a hard car to find as I was looking for blue car with no vinyl top, no hide-away headlight and a clean body to work with. Sadly with bad health and constant work conditions always coming up, it sat for 6 years before I could get started on it. Luckily one of my best friends Mike out of Watsonville, CA decided I needed a hand and made me a buddy's offer to get the car going. SWEET! He knew my health kept me from a lot of things, but said he wanted to see me in a done muscle car for once and said we could whip this car together for cheap if we worked together. So here is my car and will be posting pics and info on it as we do the work and inch through the progress.
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Re: Finally started! 1972 Dodge Charger Rallye project.
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02/19/18 12:07 AM
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StukaJU87
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I am looking forward to seeing this car come together. Looks like you have a great starting point to kick it off.
Scott
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Re: Finally started! 1972 Dodge Charger Rallye project.
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02/21/18 12:56 PM
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Re: Finally started! 1972 Dodge Charger Rallye project.
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Re: Finally started! 1972 Dodge Charger Rallye project.
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02/25/18 01:20 AM
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Came back with a few areas of rust I was not expecting to find it in trunk lip, trunk edge, lower quarter panel, rear pass floor pan. The roof was not bad and totally savable.
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Re: Finally started! 1972 Dodge Charger Rallye project.
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02/25/18 06:02 PM
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big-block-dave
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Great car!!! Hard to believe the roof condition from first pics when u bought it to now? It looks totally covered in paint at first? I thought Cali cars did get burnt paint, but usually down to primer? Never saw them get to surface rust like that.
I'm the CARETAKER of Weinstats '69 440 'cuda registry and have 104 of the 360 cars to date. 84 fastbacks/20 coupes. Always looking for new(REAL M-code) '69 440 'cudas to add to the registry so drop me a note if any are found or known. This isn't a publicly released registry. Thanks, Dave
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Re: Finally started! 1972 Dodge Charger Rallye project.
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03/08/18 11:16 AM
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Re: Finally started! 1972 Dodge Charger Rallye project.
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03/08/18 01:19 PM
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Its looking good. I love the 72 door scallops
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Re: Finally started! 1972 Dodge Charger Rallye project.
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03/30/18 05:20 PM
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Well after double shifts at work and 2hr drives in rush hour traffic, finally getting time to post pics. Stage two Firm Feel Inc large bearing box fresh and powder coated By Dick, Dennis and Ross should make for some fun steering on the road.
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