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Re: Change in plans [Re: BradH] #2536467
08/14/18 10:31 PM
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Lol, a few of us definitely remember that car.....was impressed because you always drove it to the track....havent been out with our cars too much this year do to the weather but hopefully I can make it to the MIR Mopar race and do some testing.


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Re: Change in plans [Re: BradH] #2544418
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Brief update:
- Mike's made good progress on the items he's been tasked with

- He also found a serious crack in the frame near where the k-member attaches to the driver's side; going to need to find someplace to repair that, plus install front spring mount reinforcements that I picked up at Carlisle a couple of years ago

- I'm still working through The Garage From He11 to get it in shape to do engine & trans wrenching again

- I was going to post some progress pics, but most of them didn't turn out very good. I'll try again the next time I go by Mike's place.

It's still a 20 footer -- maybe more like a 50 footer -- but it's what I have to work with.

Re: Change in plans [Re: BradH] #2544575
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Originally Posted By BradH
Originally Posted By Bill_LBSR
Havent seen that car in a long time......be good to see it back out.

So much for my belief that only four other people on the planet remember seeing my car at the track; looks like there are five. tonguue


Make that six... up


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Originally Posted By keefe
Originally Posted By BradH
Originally Posted By Bill_LBSR
Havent seen that car in a long time......be good to see it back out.

So much for my belief that only four other people on the planet remember seeing my car at the track; looks like there are five. tonguue


Make that six... up

Nope; you & Douglas are two of the original four, Mike Hynes is the third, and John Dallain(sp?) is the fourth. I did forget include Jim Hanrahan, probably because he dropped off the radar years ago. Guess that does make six, though.

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Re: Change in plans [Re: BradH] #2544678
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My car isn't even a 50 footer but I still enjoy it. I think I've gotten to the point now where I'm not super concerned with how it looks as long as I can get in it and drive it.

Bummer about the crack in the frame. That might take some work to get fixed.

Keep plugging away. Progress is progress even if it doesn't seem like it somedays. I worked on my car a bunch earlier this year without anything seeming to change and then one day it was ready to fire up. Of course, as soon as I started to drive it again I immediately made a new list of stuff that had to be changed...........

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That's a cool car, I'm thinking you have a solid plan. Just keep it to *this* plan and all will be good. : )

I also just got my 66 Charger roll bar project out of the barn after replacing the frame connectors, passenger floor pan, and welding up a bunch of cracks over the last two years. I'm putting in the 511 and GF5R tomorrow now that I have my bellhouing back from cert/windowing. Next step is to fit the forward bars and start tacking it together now that it's on the suspension again. It's a long road, hang in there!

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No updates on my effort, other than my garage isn't quite as cluttered after having spent some time sorting thru sh!t.

Mike's actually made progress, for which I have some photographic evidence. The things I've asked him to take on run the gamut from replacing fuel system components I'm concerned were damaged from extended E10 fuel exposure to handling some body & paint stuff to slightly "re-image" the car per some ideas I had.

I provided him the remaining '70 B5 paint I received w/ the car in 1995, but the color match is off enough that it doesn't appear to have been what the car was actually painted with before I bought it. The front & rear bumpers have been relocated flush w/ the body as w/ '70-72 Challengers, we've gone w/ body-color bumpers & rear tail light trim, the tail light modules are now black, the grille's been blacked out, wheel well bright trim removed... just a bunch of stuff. Still definitely a "20+" footer, yet different.

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Re: Change in plans [Re: BradH] #2545792
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Old fuel tank & fuel pump swapped out for new shiny parts. You can see the "Plain Jane" Strange S-60 under there that got installed last year, IIRC.

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New "Spoilers by Randy" chin spoiler along with the painted & relocated front bumper. Even though the spoiler is sold as an E-body Challenger part, it still fit like a universal-application part. It's got much better under-valance coverage than T/A replica "twin" spoilers, since I'm hoping it reduces the amount of air getting under the front of the car.

The new M&H front radials are shorter than the 215/75R15s still on the wheels, too, and will help drop the front end a bit. It sat basically level before, but will have a bit of rake w/ the new tires without looking jacked-up.

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Re: Change in plans [Re: BradH] #2545797
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Engine compartment still grungy. The one nice feature is what I believe is one of the last 3-speed wiper motors restored by Jules D'Addio before he passed away. Gotta love a grubby street car with a show car wiper motor...

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Re: Change in plans [Re: BradH] #2545798
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Frame rusted & cracked on driver's side near k-frame. Gotta get that fixed before the car gets hammered on again.

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Interior stripped out. One shot of the back of the roll bar (and the now-painted, formerly pitted chrome, door mirror) and one w/ the Auto Grip handle sticking up from the floor. I had been driving w/o the console the last time it was on the road, but the console's going back in.

Funny thing... well, not really funny - Now that Mike's been inside, outside & underneath my car, he started telling me about what a rough life my car had before I bought: front end had to have been pulled straight after an accident; quarter panel replacement, patches in floor & trunk where it had rusted through... all that "good" stuff you never really wanted to hear about the POS that you've stuffed waaaay too much $$$ into over the last 20+ years. I guess it's a good thing I didn't pay a huge price for it when I bought it.

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Re: Change in plans [Re: BradH] #2545804
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Looks good, any progress is good progress.


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Looking good to me.


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Originally Posted By Triple Threat
Looks good, any progress is good progress.


Exactly.

Looks like Mike is getting right after it!!


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Re: Change in plans [Re: BradH] #2545891
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What's the deal with the patch that was welded inside the engine compartment on the left inner fender?



I like the red pin stripe on the grill up



Also the crack on the left front frame rail is this common on the mopars ? I think someone else has found a crack on the frame rail, Doug with the 64 dodge I believe shruggy

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Re: Change in plans [Re: racerx] #2546088
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i wish the engine compartment of my charger was as "grubby" as yours ! laugh2 i would open the hood for sure.
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Good progress. The body color bumpers look really nice on there, I like it better than the black.

Let's see that cool looking hood scoop...


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Re: Change in plans [Re: racerx] #2546139
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Originally Posted By racerx
What's the deal with the patch that was welded inside the engine compartment on the left inner fender?




I think that's where the battery mounted originally. Not unusual to have rust from the acid.

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Originally Posted By gzig5
Originally Posted By racerx
What's the deal with the patch that was welded inside the engine compartment on the left inner fender?




I think that's where the battery mounted originally. Not unusual to have rust from the acid.

The battery was still in the front when I bought the car. If that area had already rusted when the front end got bent up (per Mike's scope ), maybe it needed to be patched before the battery tray could be mounted there again.

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