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Keep it up. I am learning a bunch. One of my most favorite posts by far.

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Thanks, it's hard to keep it up sometimes!

Good evening everyone, I started out like wild fire begining of Oct, then I wait till the 12 day of this month to work on this car. Well I sure haven't been sitting in front of the computer or in front of the TV that's for sure. I built a 23'x14' wood awning behind my garage,by myself. It took me two weekends, I'm still sore all over.
Plus I lost a mechanic at work which means I get a little more exercise at work here lately.
I've been on the fence on wether I was gonna remove the whole outer wheelhouse or just splice the outter lip onto the original??? Well standing there looking at the car last nite, I decided to replace the whole thing. Took me about a hour and a half just to get the old one out. It was toughest piece yet to get off. IMO The replacement seem to fit pretty good, but the next thing I know I have another hour into it just messing with the fit. I was gonna start on the other side last nite but ran outta time. Once I get it off, then I can get to putting it back together and really see how it's all gonna fit. I'm getting busy at work so I may not have time every nite like I like to work. we'll see.
You saw pictures of my awning, except now it has 8 ounce fiberglass panels on it, sorry too late to take a picture.
Here's the car last nite after I got the outer wheelhouse off.

And here it is with the Goodmark replacement, it seems to fit pretty good. It fits real good inside the new quarter, that's why I decided to replace the whole thing.

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Looking good GT.

Why the name change

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Well when I joined challenger was taken, so was challenger1,so was 2 and so was 3. So I said to a friend that day, I bet no one has challenger125 and Moparts let me use it. Well I noticed someone new using just challenger here lately and when I checked challenger 1 was available again. So I went with it because it was shorter. Hey I could of used challenger#1...it was available too.

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Well when I joined challenger was taken, so was challenger1,so was 2 and so was 3. So I said to a friend that day, I bet no one has challenger125 and Moparts let me use it. Well I noticed someone new using just challenger here lately and when I checked challenger 1 was available again. So I went with it because it was shorter. Hey I could of used challenger#1...it was available too.

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I was just curious that is why i asked. Have you got a pick of the house extension

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Have you got a pick of the house extension

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Hello folks,

I got the pass. wheelhouse off, and here is a picture of the replacement. It fits pretty darn good from what I have found so far.


I put the new pass wheel house on, it fits better than the drivers side. But I did a better job of removing the old one the second time around on the pass. side. I forgot to take a picture of the pass side before I hung the quarters.

Here's what a outer wheel house looks like.


I did another fitup to check things out. I think I can make this work. All panels are in place. I started to scribe stuff that will need to be modified. The trunk extensions will need the most work, but it looks doable. I think I'm gonna weld the trunk pan and extensions in next.


Hope to do more tomorrow, cheers everyone.

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Any weekend progress?

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Well not much that I can show. I used my stud welder and welded all the studs on the quarters and rear window filler for the window trim clips. I postioned the gas tank mounts and am ready to weld them on. I only spent about two hours on it over the weekend. But I did spend most of my weekend in a garage working on trucks. I plan on getting to know Markz528 spot welder tonite but first I have to mount some stuff for Markz timer to work with the spot welder. Oh yea I cut grass over the weekend,cleaned out three rooms for the carpet cleaners today,put up a ceiling light,rotted out two different drains,took my girlfriend out for her birthday, and worked on a awning all this weekend. I'm tired, but I'm gonna work on it tonite.

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When you have that much metal cut out (all of it ), how do you line everything back up to fit each other? Like dog houses to quarters to trunk extensions to tail panel to ect. and not get anything out of whack? I don't mean holding it together, but where everything goes.
Awesome.

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Very good question, I'll let you know here soon. I still have the doors mounted and I will referece off of them. I took a bunch of measurement too before I took it apart.

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How did you get the studs on the filler panel?? My bodyman cannot get the welder in the shallow recess without tilting the gun for the ground ring and the studs would be set crocked, Do you have some sort of adapter for the tip or ground ring of the gun?? He is using the Stinger brand stud setter.

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Hello everyone,
Haven't spent as much time as I would like, the past week or so. We are having house guests here Weds for a week and have been busy getting ready.


I've been doing things everyday to keep this car project moving forward.
Drove my other 74 Challenger today and yesterday! It was lot's of fun, it reminds me why we do this.

Hey good question about the stud welder, this is how I solved the problem for me.

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Hey, Looks like the Rallye/Bulge hood is on the 71. I thought you were happy with the Shaker. Bucking the trend? LOL

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Yea I'm bucking the trend,lol. Yea your right everyone has a shaker now.
I'm not real happy with the painter right now. I have two different colors on the car including the trim ring on the shaker hood is a slightly different color than the hood. I warned him about my concern, did he listen.... no. Now he wants to paint the whole car again, but I'm not sure what I'm gonna do now. As time went by the color changed to two different colors because he painted it on two different days.