Some cool parts that have shown up recently...

Today I got some Mopar goodies... A big shout-out to Wayne Perkins for giving me the opportunity to attain a NOS rear valance for the 500. Thank you !!! Trying to do the best with the funds I have. Would like to get original end caps at an affordable price..

But with the NOS valance, it will provide a good cornerstone for the corners..
See how I did that? icon_smile_big

Also, Julius came over and sold me a Tony DAgostino restored front sway bar.. Tony, that thing is nice and look forward installing it on a freshly painted car when that day happens in the future. Thank you Julius, saved me shipping costs to and fro...

The Emissions solenoids will be worked out as such.. I will replace the aging cover of the original 426 Hemi solenoid and mounting bracket I have on the Daytona and reuse it on the 500. I'll use the other solenoid on the Daytona and get a mounting bracket from Scott Smith..

Operation rotisserie 4 Charger 500..
Well, thanks to Bob for helping with the adaptor brackets and Dave Points for the rotisserie and help, for the old girl fitted today on the ole rotisserie for the future blasting and paint. It worked !!! Some shots of it and the special hemi-car body components. Now need to get the logistics of the blasting and paint shop.

FYI, leave the plastic plugs in the ends of the rockers while it gets blasted. Getting media back out of there isa ROYAL pain . Trust me.

What media you going to use for blasting ?

Hey Bill,

It is a crushed glass media with high pressure water... I would not have believe it if I didn't see it with my own eyes. He did a test for me on another fender I had since the undercoating is the same stuff.. Well, it went right through the undercoating without any problems then he told me to put my hand on the bare metal, it was cold.. Soooo, no worries on heat warping. This sure beats the heat gun and a putty knife in a hot garage over multiple days... Hopefully will get it to him on the 21st... Going straight to the body shop when they will shot the car with epoxy before dissection...

Oh, thanks for the tip on the holes for the framerails... Yes, I guess it would be a PITA to get all that stuff out of it...

Accomplished another milestone this weekend; the blasting and delivering of the car to the body shop.. My last project Superbird took freaking 6 months or so.. This time, a weekend..
The car is pretty much what I expected.. Really solid in places and not so much in others. But, it can all be fixed.

Blaster continue..

Blaster continue #2

Blaster final

Cutting begins...

Went and checked on the progress of the 500, took them my freshly restored hood hinges by RestoRick and go over some items that were discovered during the working (to be expected). Thanks to Robert and Bill Crabtree at AMD for the sheetmetal parts I've needed.. Took the ole Daytona to check it out. The passenger side isn't going to need that much, was just positioned for mocking. It'll just need the bottom surface below the reflector.

Working on the rear valance mock-up and 4speed hump removal and patch complete

More updates... We decided to go ahead and replace the taillamp panel as well.... Heard good things about them and what to look for..

Floor in the interior coming along..

Found nearly perfect Monaco/Polara full wheel covers that most of the Press Release cars came with

Great progress....love the hubcaps!

Should look good with the hubcaps on it.

But I have to ask.
On the inner wheel houses, Why not use the entire replacement part instead of all the cutting and welding it in as a partial

want to keep as much of the original sheetmetal as possible and reduce the number of welds separated/removed....

There's the houses of keep as much original metal and those to replace the whole component....

My school of thought has been to hide your "sins" in places that are not paint finished (ie the wheel house). There are a lot of layers to that onion once you start getting into the rocker panel/wheel house (inner&outter), etc. It usually pretty obvious when from the trunk if someone has worked on the wheel house seams.

Cool car!

Well, the ole girl is in good hands with Brian and Ray Reitz over at RF Customs.. There is a strong momentum forward with the car. They are making sure the moldings and gaps are all good, soon the car will be in primer.. Moving along nicely..

some more... Hopefully in Primer next week with final touches of console brackets to be installed, wire harness tabs and tire jack mounts

Wow - what a fantastic car.

Good stuff right here, Troy! Glad this project is going much smoother.
GG