Re: 74 360 4 speed Duster
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last one for tonight[. Body I just got in primer. Will be posting more pics on my shop facebook page. The NOS hood was stored in an old grainary that the roof started to come down on it. It had some wrinkles on the outer panel as well as I found a lot of the factory spot welds were either broken or never held. So I redid just about all of them as well as did some additional spots of welding in areas that I felt Chrysler should have had spot welds. Sure improved the way the hood flexed after that. Always seems like those 74 style hoods always flexed and twisted as you opened and shut them.
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Re: 74 360 4 speed Duster
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thanks! I know there are ones that are thinking Why but with the use of NOS metal and AMD metal why not. It will never be worth what gets put in it but his boy is my age and has kept his grandpas jeep and will keep this car as well after the owner and his wife are gone. It will stay in the family. I am a firm believer that each car has a story to tell. Some just a few more stories and meaningful to some people. Below is all the metal I have done
Both qrts NOS Both door skins NOS Both fenders NOS Hood NOS Both outer rockers NOS Tail panel AMD Deck lid Used Trunk floor AMD Trunk drop offs L & R AMD Left inner and outer wheel house AMD Right outer wheel house AMD Left rear frame rail AMD Left rear spring mount AMD Left front spring mount AMD Under rear seal floor pan AMD Rear shock mount AMD See the picture of what was welded in its place to mount the shocks! main floor pan AMD inner rockers patched Both Rocker end caps AMD all 4 door hinges AMD Repaired 4 speed hump Left inner fender panel AMD Lower radiator support AMD
The car was completely media blasted inside and out then primed with PPG DP90LV primer. I did the metal work and seam sealed all the joints on the under side. Primed it with PPG epoxy and then coated the underside with Upol bed liner to give it some protection.
The car I believe was a rebuilder back in 75 or so. Owner I believe bought it around 76. It had been hit really hard on the left qrt. It had the drivers door and quarter panel replaced. There was evidence of some major damage both on the package tray and under the seat flor pan. as well as some on the inner left fender panel. I would almost guess it was side swiped from left front corner down the side. It is an original 360 4 speed car. Blaze Yellow with black side stripes and the V21 hood treatment. I am sure back in the day it was a pretty sharp car. Hoping that it will see color by years end. Speaking of color. Before I put the qrts and door skins on for the final time I chose why not color the areas behind those panels before welding them in place. Then come back and paint the areas that need to be. So look inside the rear panels on the qrts by back seat it is all yellow behind those areas as well as inside the door shells. Something I figured why not just get some PPG Shopline single stage yellow and coat those areas. Was just a little more instead of those areas just being epoxy primer coated. The inside trunk area is painted with PPG Concept as well as the under side of the hood. The interior floor pan is Shopline. Same thing figured paint those areas yellow and why buy the expensive paint when it will all be covered up anyway. I will be priming the body with PPG surfacer then when comes time to paint the body plan is to hang and paint body panels and do shell separately. Then assemble everything and do the V21 hood and install the side stripes. Owner will reassemble the car.
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Re: 74 360 4 speed Duster
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Body got primed yesterday with PPG DP90LV primer. I really like this stuff. Direct to metal epoxy that can be sanded and powders up like a surfacer. It dries with a semi gloss level so really can see what you need to focus on. Prime it with this stuff 2 coats. Let sit a couple days then block it out. Do any polester filler work that might need to be done then prime it with a regular primer surfacer.
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Re: 74 360 4 speed Duster
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The hood had some minor flaws that took a light filler work in a couple spots. Got that primed up today with regular surfacer. I had after media blasting primed it with PPG DP50LV epoxy. I took and blocked that out with 150 grit then could do my filler work on top of the epoxy. One coat of filler was all it took on the 3 spots then primed it with surfacer.
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Re: 74 360 4 speed Duster
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found another of what it looked like in the field when I seen it after about 30 years. It had some coons making their home in it. Imagine they have been relocated by now. Probably in one of the other cars in the field.
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Re: 74 360 4 speed Duster
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Anyone know if this is what the V21 hood looks like on a 74 duster? Looking for any good measurements of additional pictures if anyone has them.
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Re: 74 360 4 speed Duster
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WOW! That is a SERIOUS project but after reading the backstory...I get it. You are doing a super job on it and he is going to be one happy guy when you're done.
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Re: 74 360 4 speed Duster V21 hood
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Cool backstory on this Duster! You are doing awesome work on it...looks great so far I would like to find a nice 360 Duster with a factory sunroof...someday. Keep us posted on your progress!
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Re: 74 360 4 speed Duster V21 hood
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Cool car. If I'm not mistaken you own a 1972 V21 Cuda, and now you are restoring a Duster with family history? We seem to run on parallel paths Yes dad owns the cuda. This one is owned by a friend. I always say these cars can tell a story some you just have to dig deeper. We are also doing an 85 Ford F250 for a guy. That one his grand dad bought new. Hauled campers all over the US racking up 350,000 miles on it before selling it. He found registration papers for it and was able to locate it by the vin and a favor from someone in the knowing of looking up information like that. He pulled into the guys yard to find him leaving with it on a trailer headed to scrap yard. He bought it. At 1st I thought ok redoing grand dads truck but have since learned that he was kidnapped when he was 18 months old and found when he was 5 years old and this truck is what his grand dad and dad drove from SD to kentucky to pick him up. So like I said just have to dig deeper and learn lots. Its fun and rewarding looking at it from those perspectives rather than just we are restoring a car or truck. makes it more rewarding
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Re: 74 360 4 speed Duster V21 hood
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it is in primer and will be blocking it. Just not rushing it with other work in the shop. Owner fine with that so that helps!
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Re: 74 360 4 speed Duster V21 hood
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Amazing work on a very cool car. Back in the day your rarely saw a 360 Duster and 4 spd every more rare. Thanks. Not been working on it much the past 2 weeks. Other guy at the shop was out for Covid and the flood gates have opened up for other work. Just been trying to block on each panel as much as possible. Working each panel until I am happy with it then moving onto the next panel. Hand blocking always is a slow process so getting breaks between each panel sure helps my shoulders!
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