I finished painting the dash today...

It's a little tricky trying to make it look like its old but have new paint on it...

It wasn't as shiny once everything dried...

Cleaned and painted the breathers also...

Almost all of the small parts to put this back together are painted and ready to go...

Drivers side 1/4 panel in progress...

I went to the body shop and took the steering column and the pedals out of the car today...

Completely disassembled the pedals...sanded and cleaned all the parts...then painted everything...

Put it all back together with new grease on the pivot points...

Steering column had to be fixed where the column shift lever was...

Don't tell anybody but the column and pedals were removed from a 3 on the tree 63 330 4 door car...

Got the column primed and painted with the steering wheel back on...

Any chance you could post up the weight difference between the two? I'd be curious to know what all that work was worth beyond just doing it for looks.

Only about 6 lbs...

More progress...

Still painting misc. parts...

Fuel filler neck and one of the front cage bars from the firewall to the frame...

Valve covers have been sanded and are ready for polish...

I never thought those old 4 bolt Offy's would clean up that nice...

Very nice build!

Thx...

Really looking forward to getting this finished for this summer...

More progress on the body work...

Some primer on the drivers side...

Once everything is ready it will get reprimed and blocked...

Working on the passenger side now...

Ordered a 65 AFX scoop from Larry at Sled City...

Axles on the way from Dr. Diff along with the 4 speed parts from Passon Performance...

Different pieces of the puzzle are coming together...

I went to the body shop and swapped out the 63 330 rear end housing for the original 65 one...

It has now been cleaned with the 4.11 gears installed...

Backing plates were assembled with the new axles from Cass also installed...

Brake lines are completed...

It's ready to go back into the car when it returns...

No pics of the finished unit...

Body work is ongoing...

Guide coat installed and removed on both sides of the car...

Body color for the stripe on the side was picked out and purchased...

It is nearly identical to the color on this oil can which matches pretty well with the other turquoise interior colors...

I got the Offy valve covers and the front wheels back from polishing...

He took the rear wheels and slicks to begin working on those...

As an additional surprise I got to hear the motor run on the run stand yesterday...

I should be picking it up this week...

Engine after break in on the run stand...


I'll be picking it up today...



Need to get everything ready for paint and then install my tunnel ram and carbs

clutch pressure plate and bell housing and bolt on my "wedge" ears and into the chassis it will go once the car returns from paint...

Special thanks to Mike for the build on this...

Motor is 95% together...

Going to hold off installing the tunnel ram till after it is in the car...

Waiting on some 4 bolt valve cover gaskets and a few other little parts and it is ready to drop in the car when it returns...

I also got the rear wheels back from polishing...

The roll cage got painted the same color as the interior trim at the top of the door panels...

We sprayed the body colors on an old door and used a satin clear to see how everything will look...

The blue color looks more blue than it really is...

It actually matches the small can in the previous posts...

The entire interior was sprayed with a heavy coat of primer prior to the cage being painted...

So everything in the interior and floors had to be sanded down...

That was another 10 hours worth of sanding...

Then the trunk and the interior were sprayed and cleared...

Saturday 2/3/24 makes 31 days the car has been in the body shop...

Plastic was draped through the interior above the cage in preparation for the roof to be painted...

Because of how far the rockers return on the bottom at the pinch weld we wanted to raise the car some for painting...

The roof rail trim install on 64-5 H/T separates the roof from the body...

It will be much easier to paint the roof 1st separately and then just cover it for the balance of the paint work...

The roof got a coat of sealer...then 3 coats of color and then 3 coats of clear...

The paint color used is the 65 Dodge white...

We walked away from it at 4:00 pm on Saturday and left it alone until Sunday at noon...

I am using a Semi-Gloss clear as I don't want this to be a perfectly shiny new looking build...

It turned out right where I wanted it to be...

It has a nice sheen and will be very easy to clean and keep up with...

Peeled away the plastic and the tape and this what I have...

In order to paint the balance of the body the first thing that will need done is to seal the body...

Then the color stripe on the side will need to be laid out and sprayed...

Tape up the color stripe and then shoot the entire balance of the body with 3 coats of white...

Then shoot 3 coats of semi gloss clear...

In order for everything to begin the entire frontend needed to reassembled and installed after all of the panels were primed...

Everything fit great and it looks like a car again...

Next Saturday is when the next paint day is scheduled...