These are a few pics of my ongoing 66' Coronet convertable project. I have owned several Mopars and enjoyed them all. But I wanted a HEMI and I wanted a convertable. I found the car in 07' and it appeared to be in pretty good shape. It was a 318 LA motor, 904 auto on the column. It showed just 68,000 on the odometer.

I began collecting parts right away, K frame, Dana 60, HEMI and etc. all could be built seperately while I continued to enjoy the car. I intended to build a mild engine but found a mega block, 4.5" Callies crank, Diamond coated pistons etc. for the same as used stock parts. I ended up with 540 ci and 635 HP with a mild cam.

Of course last summer in the body shop turned up all kinds of unpleasant suprises, I am shure many of you have been there, but finally the car was solid and straight.

I brought the bare painted body shell home in March and began installing all the sub assemblies that I had been working on for three years.