Hemi 4spd Charger 500

In a friends shop. Just finished the restoration. Numbers matching engine and trans. Beautiful car.

Few more shots...

Dang.

That is a great looking car. Do you think he will have it at the Spring Fling car show this April ?

love the green

All that attention to detail and a mickey mouse master cylinder?

Great hemi charger!

Sweet.

a $65 remedy & don't paint it "black"

Beautiful car, I love F8, and a 4-speed too...

Beautiful car. I love the green. My 68 Road Runner is a green on green car. Color combination looks great when fresh.

The Hemi cars didn't get a black painted master cylinder? I thought that they did.

Not with the Bendix master cylinder.

that's a "power disc brake", thing

A power drum brake HEMI would have a painted master cylinder too. The manual brake ones were left natural. I see they painted the engine components all separated and then bolted them together with natural bolts... oopps!

Something interesting if you look is that it has a rubber plug for the hole where the headlight vacuum lines would have been. I would think the factory would have just not bored the hole out on "500" models, just the same way they do on the tach wire hole. Never seen a plug before. Makes you wonder about it being a normal charger firewall and the bodyman didn't catch the extra hole he need to weld up.

I have a couple NOS drum brake MCs where the bodies are E coated black. They have fall "6" datecodes, which I don't know if they are '66 or '76.
Bendix master cylinders for GM and Ford from the era often had black E coated castings (E coated before machining). I've only seen a few E coated Mopar master cylinders, I have wondered why Mopar usually were cast iron or painted black in the case of disc brake parts, but the parts sold to the other automakers were E coated.

Does the clamp and cap look correct?

Yes but wrong finish on clamp, should be gray phosphate

Would this ebay master cylinder be correct for a 69 GTX ? Someone I know said he could rebuild mine for $240, seems like a lot, maybe I should buy the one on ebay. the lid on mine has a silver finish, do they change in color over time ?, Thanks

Thats just the beginning

Most Charger 500s the hoses were just cut off at the firewall and left there during the conversion

yes,
Strap and bolt should be a dark phosphate color

silver cap is/was aftermkt

Wow, it didn't seem that Mick was looking to have the car picked apart but it happened anyway.

That's ok, I more or less expected it!

But just wanted to put it up for people to see. it is an amazing car!

I don't know who the owner is. Has a bunch of cars though. Had a 69 Hemi Road Runner in there before this one being restored. No idea if it will be at the fling or not.

Gorgeous! Another great one resurrected.

I think this is a friend of mine's former car. He sold it when he became ill and luckily recovered. It's a great car.

Even as a kid I thought how could they have ruined the look of one of the coolest cars ever with that front end. I was young and just thought the guy was too cheap to buy the hideaway headlights. Lol I now know it was modified to try and make it not slide down the track at Daytona but it still had trouble and that's when they added the nose cone and wing and made the car cool again.

I like the non-console 4 speed .

Don't think I'd want manual drum brakes with all that weight and power. I'd upgrade to factory power discs in front.

My comment was never meant to pick it apart.

Thing is, a lot of people use this threads as reference. and NO ONE learns if someone doesnt point out flaws / errors

Some of the items are an easy fix so why not learn what's correct?

are the washer dia on front pad in front of rubber hood adjuster the same as fender bolts?not talking about this car but on all 68-70 B-bodies.

thanks for sharing

Carsten