A little satin black paint to compliment the gloss black body. People swear that it is fiberglass, but its an alloy.

Thats great. I hate to think what it cost(or should have cost) though.

Just a few favors in return. I have bartered many things for welding, shop use, materials, and body work.
Yes, some thing like that could cost a good penny. I'm just a stickler for metals and keep friends.

Thank you much.
I, like some cats on here, take theoretical limitations to the next level for my own sanity as insane as that sounds. LOL.
Now if I only can take some welding classes in the near future, it will get crazy around here.

Talking about Alley cats, ThumperDart, how's it going with the Darts weightwatchers program?
I know that most of this is leaning towards the early B's, but I know it could also bleed over to some other bodies. I like cars that look heavy but may be the contrary with tricks. It worked on the street, even in 12 second cars.

True that. "A cool car is never a one man show"

But your car takes the whole show.

You sir are a mad man, your car and its inner workings go unappreciated by most who have no clue what work has been done to it. That I know is by design.

Thank you. Most were in the dark because I kept it secret for obvious reasons, though some always suspected some thing was fishy, and it wasn't the Fulton Fish Market.
I have counted all the lbs. taken off so far over the years, but lost count of how many Girlfriends I've lost in the process. LOL.

Talking about weight, don't believe what the registrations say on them. Always wrong by quite a few pounds for some obvious registration cost reasons in some states.
If my car was as light as it said on the regi, I'd be racing Pro-stock back then using a pet Hamster as power.

FMJ.....NICE!!!

Great pics of the hood. I'm just starting my hood but once it's done I'll be useing it as a pattern for a fiberglass mold. I need a lot more work on mine but a few pics will give you an idea of what it's going to look like. I'm just a home hacker with no friends or help so my junk takes forever and ain't real pretty, prolly won't be fast either but we know who to blame. Ha ha ha.

By the looks of that intercooler piping poking out the cowl area, I reckon that pup is going to haul the mail. Nice idea on a semi-cowl hood cut out and raised to clear the tubing on the back end. Good luck.

Here's a clearer look from the front. A good friend known as Mad Rickster applied the final smooth body putty to straighten the hoods few dings from the hammers.
I applied the Satin Black with a few rattle cans with what is known in my circles as a FAT CAP.

Get well.
Be careful breathing any cutting dust or dust in general, it can spike your Flu back to square one. Now more than ever your breathing needs a breather, take it easy.
Yeah, a few companies not really well known make those Aluminum hood pins for circle track cars. I made mine at first and they worked for years. Much lighter than steel ones for sure.

Moroso fabricated aluminum transmission pans can knock off 3-5 lbs from the transmission underneath.
I replaced my deep cast aluminum pan with the fabricated sheet metal type and lost 4 Lbs.

Aluminum pins are available at Summit $10.99 pr in both 3/8" and 1/2".
http://www.summitracing.com/parts/aaf-all18500/overview/

Doug

So where has all this come from we may wonder? I think all A-B-C-E bodies that have any hint of lightweightness in their blood can trace it all to Chrysler's history written in the most unorthodox way.

Correct me if you may, take for instance the A- bodies. They can trace this madness to the D-Darts of the mid 60's along with the 68'Hemi LO23's and BO29's and the Feather Dusters/Dart Lites.
Those are the blueprints I would be following to get the most out of the A-bodies as far as weight.

M-code A-cars did not have a Diet plan at all or as radical as the three previous code options.

The Early B's of course have the Maxies, A-864 and the A-990 Hemi's to lay blame on.

The Mid-evil B's wink at the 67'R0's and W0's.

and the late B's go hand in hand with the A-12's.

I think the 70'-74' B's can really indulge in the Stock car diet programs that go unnoticed in many circles.

The C-bodies have but one rare and awkward pedigree to follow up to. The Hurst 300's of 1970'. Though I suspect that those Fiberglass hoods and trunk lids were heavier than the steel versions.

Of course the E-bodies can point fingers in the direction of the AAR/TA Pony's and as far as I'm concerned, the infamous step father Trick Titanium Cable and Missile cars.

My cars DNA trail leads us back to three unusual suspects.
*Detroit's own "Silver Bullet".
*The four 1964 2% and the four 1965 2% incognito cars built prior to the 12% 1965 Altered wheel based cars we all know and love today.

Now in current times, The New Challengers of course can only elbow the Drag Pak's in their ribs for starting it all over again and nothing more.