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Re: Jake's Challenger/Rust [Re: jake71] #519225
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And here's the floor all marked out for hole locations for plug welding.

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Re: Jake's Challenger/Rust [Re: jake71] #519226
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Now to drill a million holes.

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Re: Jake's Challenger/Rust [Re: jake71] #519227
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Here's the front Goodmark pan and rear AMD pans welded in. The Goodmark front fit very nice, but the rears they sell as 70-74 are not correct for 70 so these are AMD rears. They fit well but the curve coming up to the rocker on the passenger side started too soon and was pretty crooked.

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Re: Jake's Challenger/Rust [Re: moparpollack] #519228
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No the purple 340 chally vert you did was scarry.



Watch for pictures of that car coming up the end of this year...The owner chose his own body shop and got screwed over, but finally the car is painted and now it's just being polished...To say the paint turned out nice is a tremendous under- statement...It's been in three shops in the past two years...


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Re: Jake's Challenger/Rust [Re: jake71] #519229
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Had to fill a few holes under the rear seat. Sure do love the Mig.

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Re: Jake's Challenger/Rust [Re: jake71] #519230
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No more holes. Love that 3M Roloc disc!

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Re: Jake's Challenger/Rust [Re: jake71] #519231
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Thats one helluva project

Re: Jake's Challenger/Rust [Re: jake71] #519232
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Now on to the rusty wheel houses. Both sides were pretty rough around the bottom rears. After the stories I read about the after market parts available, I decided to try to make some patches. They were compound curves so it took a while to figure it out but it worked. Here's before.

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Re: Jake's Challenger/Rust [Re: jake71] #519233
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Here's another.

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Re: Jake's Challenger/Rust [Re: jake71] #519234
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Some more

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And on to the repairs

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Re: Jake's Challenger/Rust [Re: jake71] #519236
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This was all new to me so if it looks like a newbie did it, well that's why.

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Re: Jake's Challenger/Rust [Re: jake71] #519237
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I did the passenger side with hammers and sand bags but the driver's side I bought the Harbor Freight stretching/shrinking tool which worked excellent!

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Re: Jake's Challenger/Rust [Re: jake71] #519240
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Re: Jake's Challenger/Rust [Re: jake71] #519241
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Good job. It's always nice to see a guys first attempt at a resto and the workmanship is far above what most "pro" bodymen do.

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Thats one helluva project



It is but it sure has been quite a bit of fun.

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Good job. It's always nice to see a guys first attempt at a resto and the workmanship is far above what most "pro" bodymen do.

Sheldon



Thank you very much. I always feel like I'm doing the right things but there's still always that nagging thought that something I'm doing will come back to haunt me later.

Re: Jake's Challenger/Rust [Re: okie] #519244
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I know him, his name is Bob Romig and he is a certified CROOK. He can restore a car as good as anybody if he wants to. He repainted my 70 340 Swinger and now I've got to file a lawsuit on him so I can get some one to redo it right now. He done another friends 69 1/2 RoadRunner and it is just like mine. I will never have any other dealings with him. Sorry about the car you bought, he had proballey screwed some one out of it. I hope you can get it fixed. but we need to get the word out on him, he doesn't need to be working on are selling any cars. Just remember who he was and what he has done. Ronnie in Okla.



Sorry to hear it didn't go well with him. I can't really say too much about the guy. He may have kind of screwed me on some details like saying he had a clear title. Not exactly. It wasn't in his name and it wasn't signed by the previous owner. Something I'll have to deal with. I found the last owner at the same address since 1982 so I'll see if I can't work out a deal with him to have him do some paperwork for me. He said he didn't know if the motor was good, which I didn't really care about since it was a '65 newport motor, but it was cracked on both sides and it looked like it had just been set in there for the sale judging by the fact there was nothing hooked up and the motor mounts were brand new. Still, I got the project I was looking for and he was a pleasure to chat with. Again I'm sorry your dealings with him didn't go so well. Good luck with getting your paint job fixed up.

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