Bucket Seats

My car was originally a benchseat model, ember in colour. I replaced that soon after I got the car with a pair of mismatched buckets; drivers side is white and passenger green. Both I painted with some cheap vinyl spray, duct tape and cheap seat covers.

I recently ordered some white front seat covers from Dante's. The plan is to colour match the interior with the front seats, I'll be switching the interior from black to white. Here's the seats as they sit.  :'(




Recently received my covers from Dante, very nice Legendary covers, I'll tackle these myself a little later.



Some interior color change. I lightly went over the panels with a scotchbrite pad on some of the scratches and followed the SEM procedure, here are some of the results:

Not too much to show lately, still removing paint from around the trunk and front & rear window gutters. Not very interesting stuff so I've kind of been starting other little projects as an aside.

Figured I'd take the plunge and buy a new Spectra gas tank, of course it's cheaper to buy it in the States and have it shipped to Canada, even though it's Canadian made there is not much choice as to where to purchase it here and it's more than double the price. Mine is dented quite a bit, so to avoid hassles I thought I'd purchase new.



Here's my new tank, what a beauty.



Test fit the tank:




Started going through my stash of Slapstick shifter stuff, before AMD came out with theirs I purchased some original brackets off ebay. I'm going from column to floor shift.



I also started stripping the front and rear bumper brackets. Will use some rust encapsulator on them followed by some eastwood's extreme chassis black.







Got the rear bumper guard brackets finished up as well, one NOS and the other has some slight surface rust that I removed after soaking in Evaporust for a few hours:


Here they are after a couple coats of Eastwood's Rust Encapsulator and Chassis Black, with original nuts and clips:

Hidden Headlight Grille

I'll put the refresh of my grille here as I work on it. Not a bad set-up does have a bit of the usual pitting but not too bad and nothing broken.



Did some masking and used Eastwood's Underhood Black.



Added the DODGE emblem, going for a similar look to the 71 style.



Here's the grille surrounds:


Got the surrounds done, still need to polish the chrome, I'm happy with the results. Here's a couple pics.



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**Edit, after all that I decided to go with the '71 setup.

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Got the front sway bar finished.





Used Eastwood Chassis black, Seymour's Stainless steel paint and the bushings are Moog.

Received my set of KYB shocks from Just Suspension, these are to replace the set I last bought in 1991. I was tempted to re-use them because the car has mostly been off it's suspension all these years. I did have to cut the two rears off so that swayed me to buy a new set. They are sort of a dark silver colour, look good but I thought I would paint them black, three more to go.

I paid US$125 for the set, in 1991 I paid CAD$105 just for the front!

EXCELLENT write up! Excellent pics too.

Don't worry about the speed of the progress, as long as you're making progress!

Thanks John and I love that wagon.

CDN72SE – Great project car! We look forward to more updates. What do you plan on doing with the car when you’re done? If you’re going to drive it hard, you may want to consider at least upgrading the front sway bar . Dodge didn’t put great sway bars on their early musclecars, in fact some didn’t even come with one.

Your doing a bang up job!attention to detail is first rate.....its always satisfying to do the hard stuff yourself!keep up the good work....look foward to seeing it come together and on the road...

Thanks a lot Joe that means a lot, I don't get much encouragement on the home front. Alan.

Thanks for checking out my little thread, lol. I have seen your sway bars and I have seen them on a '72, very nice. Don't think I'll be doing much hard driving but I have been considering one when the price is right. I'm also considering a rear bar.

Small update, got the rear drums finished.

Got the wheel cylinder gaskets from DMT, the wheel cylinders from Canadian Tire and the riveted brake shoes from Napa.

Rear Taillights

Decided to take a look at these this past weekend, I have one NOS black and one a nice argent taillight. The plan is to re-finish them both with the tri-colour effect, black, grey (or darker argent) and argent. I am not too concerned with them looking OEM exact. I've got so many different cans of silver, argent, aluminum, grey it's getting nuts so whatever I have on my shelf that is the closest I think I will use.

Here's the black bezel.



and the argent:



Started masking:


Got it painted:


Ready to spray some argent I had kicking around for the outer part of the bezel:


Thought I'd share my mistake, I painted these two bezels two weeks apart and somewhere along the line I mixed up the finishing paint, one I used Eastwood's Spray Gray and the other is Detail Gray. I think the top is Detail Gray, when I have made the correction I'll straighten it out.  :brickwall: Well at least I have two different samples.



Installed:

awesome work

Thanks Darren.

Really impressive you are doing great work! keep the pictures coming. Awesomeeeeee

Dennis

Thank you very much Dennis and I've been watching your build, very nice work you are doing on your '73 I can't wait to see it finished.

everything is looking nice.

License Plate Brackets - Rear

Not in too bad of condition, let's see if I can clean it up a bit, here are some before shots.





After:





Last one:



Front

Soaked in Evaporust & then a couple coats of Eastwood's Rust Encapsulator.



Then sprayed with Extreme Chassis Black: