Hello, I'm trying to do the finishing touches on a 71 340 Cuda i just restored. Does anybody know where i can get some good survivor pictures for inspection marks and what not.. Taking her to the MCACN show next week and i'd like her to be detailed somewhat correct.

The only way to know what was correct for your car is to document what it had to start with & then duplicate them.

No two cars are exactly the same but your car was there when it was built, so it is the best firsthand witness you could ever have.

Let's say for the sake of argument this car was not a unrestored, untouched original car and i could not document every square inch of it....
What i'm looking for are some universal things they did on all Cuda's or most of them. I'm not trying to change the world, just looking for a few detail items.

Most want to tell you to Document your original and the rest will tell you stuff but never take the time to grab a camera for you.
You'll probably fair better than I did last week trying to get help .

The board comes together for some but not all.
Ron

Thanks

Get ahold of Ted, over at HS's place...

Quite a few photos of the R.J. Reynolds heir's 2,000 mile '71 Hemi 'Cuda here:

http://www.rkmotorscharlotte.com/sales/inventory/active/1971-Plymouth-Cuda/133269#!/

But their server isn't working now and won't scroll through the photos for this car or any of their cars. Maybe they'll fix it?

Bottom pictures.. http://www.garaget.org/mypage/gallery.php?user=106330&album=43470

Dave, this is the Blake family's car. They are getting it ready for the MCACN show so you'll see it there. Bryan is fast track assembling and detailing it this week in prep for the show and admits while not perfect, he did it faithful to the original details he found while disassembling it and it's pretty darn close, definitely close enough for what you are doing. Hopefully these pics will help. One item I'd probably go with is a black rather than a natural sway bar as Blake's is.

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Perfect detailing - more pictures Scott?

More pics please.Is that light green paint on those K frame bolts?

Keep in mind, I mirror Alaskan_TA's thoughts on the subject concerning every car being unique. I posted these to give Dave some help on the car he's working on due it not having a lot of detail history to refer to, so please take that into consideration when viewing the above pics.

Bryan made every effort to duplicate what he found, some of which were VERY minute clues through rusty dirty 40 year old original parts. He makes no claim that every detail is accurate, it's just as accurate as he could make it based on what he found on his car. He was also in a bit of a rush getting the car prepared for the MCACN show next week, some small detail mistakes will be corrected later. The K-member bolts were daubed with green because he found a very small chip of green paint remaining on one bolt. Was it a mistake? Did they all have green? How much did they have before it all wore off? These are some questions we will likely never know the entire answer to. .02

Couple more under hood, he is going to add a few more details here too.

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Thanks for the pics, looks good!

Beautiful car.Tell us more about the cars history.