Looks FANTASTIC !

Looks gr8!!!

That finish almost looks like one of the cast finishes from Eastwood?

Update time. I've been busy working on the steering column restoration and hope to have photos of that soon. Meanwhile, I stopped in to check on rust repair progress. It's going really well and there are not too many rust spots left to cut out and repair.

So here are a few more before and after shots. Here is a before photo of the driverside lower rear quarter panel showing rust towards the rear.

And another before shot of the same lower rear quarter showing the rust behind the wheelwell. NOTE: the "specks" you see are over spray from the undercoating and will be sanded off when the car is closer to being painted.

Here's the after with new AMD lower patch panel. It fit pretty well overall. We did find that one of the valance mounting tabs did not align perfectly with the hole on the trunk extension. However, it's an easy fix.

Here's rust in the corner where the rocker meets the rear quarter and rust on the lower rear quarter area.

And the repair.

Rear window channel had rust in several places, this shows the rust on the lower driverside.

I took the after photo from a different angle but you can see it's now solid.

About a week ago, I made contact with the original owner of the car who ordered it new. He and I are going to talk soon and I can find out first hand about the car. One thing I was told is that he wanted A/C and had ordered it. However, when the car came it had all the options he wanted except the A/C was not present. So, the dealer installed A/C on the car. They drilled holes in the firewall which you can see in this shot. If you look through the radiator cut out to the upper left you can see the 2 holes.

They have now been welded up.

Looking better all the time Will you be able to take it to the painter when it leaves the metal dudes shop? It's sure gonna look GOOD when it's done!

As it stands right now, everything will time out perfectly to go to the painters straight from his shop.

Both the metal guy and painter are running about 2 weeks later than we'd hoped but I can't complain. Good communication with both of them and no reservations about the work so I'm a happy camper at this point.

New gaskets and seals arrived from Dr. Diff early this week. And I made some decent progress on making the rear axle more "spiffy". Still need to torque down the axle flange bolts and adjust end play. Also need to check my rear drums and see if they need/can be turned. If they can be turned then I'll get those painted too. I ordered new brake shoes and wheel cylinders so I'm waiting for those to show.

The axle was an open 2.94. I switched it over to a suregip.. Originally, I was going to install 3.55 gears but then I decided to go with 3.91s. Since this is supposed to be a fun car, I thought the 3.91s might be a little more fun.

Joe

It was a very busy week this week. My goal was to finish up the rear axle but things changed pretty quickly when my painter body guy called and asked me to bring over the hood, doors, fenders and other components that need bodywork and paint. He worked on the battery tray and hood hinges and after a spray out we shot some color to make sure we were happy with the mix and to decide once and for all what color to paint the car. After changing my mind a gazillion times over the last 5 year. EK2 finally won out. I'm stoked, and think it looks pretty awesome.

In the last 5 years, I took all the removable body panels off the car and had them media blasted and all the rust cut out with new sheet metal patches welded back in. So it's been a while since the panels were bolted on the car. After the panels were bolted up, we went over any potential problems and solutions with body fitment. My youngest daughter thought a hammer could solve all our problems and was ready to help out.

That's a great picture. My son(he'll turn 2 in February) wanted to help dad install the e-brake cable on the Challenger last month. I've got a really cute pic of him helping me under the car.

Your doing great work so far. Keep it up.

EK2 is looking good!!!

You gotta be stoked to finally get some paint on!!!

Thanks Darren. That is my daughter who has had all of the health problems. She still has a long way to go but she is a little better this year than she was last year this time. I'm hoping next year she'll be doing even better. She is handful, it was all I could do to keep her from using the hammer on the car.

Thanks Tom. It is exciting to finally see some color, even if it is on small parts. I'm glad I went with Go Mango now. I have those pieces hanging in my garage along with some black parts I painted. Everytime I walk by, I get an idea of what the car might look like with the stripes on it. Puts a little fire in me to get stuff done. Going to be working in the garage tonight cleaning the transmission and some other parts. I have one more good painting day tomorrow then all goes to crap. Calling for 44 degrees and mixed precip. by Saturday.