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68 Cuda Repaint/4-link/Quarters NEW PICS #654705
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I thought I might post a few of mine. It's a 68 340 4 speed car I have been racing the last 7-8 years. Last fall we had some bad track conditions and the car got loose coming into contact with a mustang and really hurting both my car and his. Currently it is a 440 with stock crank and rods and a GF4A G-force 4 speed. Usually ran in the 10.40's with the old SS and/or cal tracs.
The accident pushed me to replace the rear trunk/quarters that were rotted pretty good. Not done yet but a work in progress. Limited funds and limited time. Thanks and don't rip me too bad.

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The batterd side and heres some of the rust.

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one with the floor removed - for roughing everything together.

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Both rear quarters were a mess. The car was painted in the late 90's and my body guy opened the quarters a couple of times and finally settled on making a lip out of pieces of metal, bondo, and steel wool. Needless to say it broke out and cracked often.
I plan on doing the paint, as I am doing everything this time.

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This is the front. Old Mr. fiberglass fender broke all to death so I removed it. When we hit I swung around and bounced off his car breaking my fender, buckling the rear fenders on both sides and buckling the trunk pan.

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I bought an S&W four link kit along with alot of stuff from them. Pics are somewhat in stages as I didnt take them at each step just as I went.

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This was a nice productive weekend.

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Rear quarters were from Sherman and associates. Really didnt go to bad. I cut the old ones about an 1 from the top line and stuff really went well. The rocker for passenger side was from them as well. What a piece of garbage. I spent as much time cutting it and making it fit as well as putting a taper in it to get it the way it should be.

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Welded up. One thing I didnt expect was the outer edge dropped some even though the thing was braced well, so it took about 2-3 building a wooden jig to get it back right. Learn as you go sometimes.

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Nice job...is that an Alston subframe?
I'll be doing something similar to my '68 Fastback.
I'm wondering why you didn't open up the wheelwells to a larger size before welding the quarterpanels on?

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Are you building a small tire car?


It really doesn't matter whether you win or lose…
as long as you look good doing it!

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It is going to be a 32x14 tire. I'll post more pics tomorrow of that. The fram is S&W and when all said and done it leaves about 2" of clearance inside and outside of the tire to frame and wheel well.
I did open the wheel well about 7 inches. I waited til' they were on that way everything was solid, also I didnt get the tires until I was welding on the second quarter. I have more pics of that stuff as well as wheels etc. Talk about slow.
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I like it! looks good so far. Keep the pics coming.

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another, getting closer to paint.

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Got the better half to help sand and spray bomb the frame rails so they didnt rust with all the work.

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I filled the exhaust cutouts and straightened the rear roll pan.

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Other side.

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This is the wheel and tire I'll be running. The wheels are Sander Engineering from S&W. SFI spec $120 cheaper than welds, delivered in 4 days and weigh a little more than a pound less.

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