Thank you!


The top was painted last night!

What did you use on the roof? Assuming this lat black is a sealer of some sort to go under a vinyl roof?

The flat black is actually a satin single stage finish coat. It had a black vinyl top originally but I don't like what vinyl does to roof skins so I elected to just paint a black top on it. If the next guy really wants to, he can install a vinyl top!

I have been slowly picking away at interior. I have a new Legendary carpet that has been rolled up in a box for 13 years, so it is taking lots of time to form it to the floor pans....hence the sand bags in the picture. The rear upper seat had a clear plastic cover on it that was half on/half off, which is why it has a dirt line that runs from corner to corner. The rear seat cleaned up pretty well, but has some yellowing/staining.

I installed the rear wiring harness, taillights, rear bumper, and this antique tag I bought on ebay. That tag is now my permanent tag.



I also cleaned up the door panels

Rear window and trim are installed. I cleaned up the window but left the vintage radio station sticker.

Spent some time cleaning and polishing the engine bay. The passenger side is in much better condition then the driver's side so don't expect as good of results on the other side!!

Gonna pull front suspension and rebuild while you're there?

I bet he could pull the torsion and then slide the lower control arm off without unbolting the pivot pin!!

Yes!
Finally pulled all the original front suspension parts out for refurb/replacement. So many rusty cotter pins...I'm also trying to figure out what I want to do for front brakes. This thing has drums on all four corners and that's not fun.

My friend has a RR1 '68 Charger, only one I've ever seen in person in that color.

With 5 kids, work, school board, etc, I've not been making much progress on this charger. But I've also been trying to be patient as I've been waiting to make a deal with a previous owner for the complete numbers matching 383-4. I've known where the engine was for the last 3 years and the owner was willing to sell it. The engine is in a Satellite he owns and it hasn't run in over 20 years. We even came to an agreement on price three years ago, but I can't get him to take any action. I've offered to pull the engine for him...I've offered more money for it...He has turned down my offer to pull it and he just won't ever get around to doing it himself. After three years, I've come to the conclusion it won't happen any time soon and I'm tired of waiting. I had also completely rebuilt and powder coated all the front suspension. So the direction is changing for the better.

I'm going Gen 3 hemi, A518, Vintage Air, and RMS front/rear suspension.




Also, I noticed that there is not blackout treatment on the front of the radiator support...and the radiator support has not been repainted.

I'm also going with disc brakes and bigger wheels. Don't judge the wheels just yet. It will look a lot better at ride height, which will be lower. If I didn't mention it earlier, I had my paintless dent repair guy work out the hail dents and door dings.

Awesome overhead shot of the garage!
Is that a T7 white hat special 69 Charger I see there.

Close…it’s T5 with a white hat and saddle interior. Original paint!

The chrome Road Wheels looked perfect on that Charger.

RMS 4 link has been mocked up. Will need to pull/paint/reinstall later.

Catching up a little bit...

Got the Charger up on the lift to mock up the drivetrain...




Mounted the cast manifolds first, which are from a 6.4L Jeep Cherokee SRT8. These headers are cheap and they actually came factory on Jeep SRT8's which had 485hp, so they can handle the power and won't break easily. I paid $125 plus shipping for them. The driver's side engine mount had to be redone to accommodate the cast headers. The mount was originally straight...now it is curved.

It's kind of hard to see in these first two pictures, but the tunnel had to be clearanced to get the transmission up into the tunnel where it needed to be.




The torsion bar crossmember lips were trimmed down in the tunnel and a plate was welded in.

Nice! Looking forward to riding in this one!