Any one ever want a cool old car that they could drive any where and not have to worry about it well that is what I plan on doing with this car. I'm going to build a 70 challenger convertible with very little money using all used parts and make it look like a beat up survivor type car. Bought the car for 8k and only plan on putting another 2k into it. I'm going to paint it out with a gallon of $50.00 Nason machinery paint which is the same stuff I just used on this ramcharger. You can sand it and buff after to give it a real nice shine. I actually add a little bit of this special harder and wet look which makes it a little more durable as well. I'm going to leave a majority of the dents in the car and after it's painted I'm going to scuff the areas to make look like it happend after it was painted black(lol). I left some of the dents in the hood where it looks like someone had sat on the hood. The cars going to be a triple black car with black paint, black top, black interior, black side stripes with out the r/t, blacked out hood treatment, black steel rims with beat up dog dish hub caps. I'm not going to buff out any of the trim and leave the old bumpers on the car. I also going scrap up the stripes in areas, and try to hit them with a small buffer to make them look fadded. I'm also going to burn through areas on the car while buffing so it will show primer in areas. The top looks like an old JC Whitney top that has a few small rips in it that I'm going to leave the car. The back window to the car is so yellow you can't even see through it. The deck lid has an original luggage rack on it that I'm going to leave on it with it's surface rust and all. I going to buy a factory dealer decal to slap on the back of the car and make look a little used as well. The interior I'm not going to touch and plan on leaving the rear speaker in the back door panels. The dash pad has the tipical dash crack where the speakers at and thats staying as well.

I plan on driving this car like they did back in the 70's with no worries about people touching it or kids playing beside it. I plan on driving it every day during the summer. If I want to sit on the hood and have a few drinks at a party I can (lol).

Every year I go to Carlisle and there's a group of guys that come there every year and they have these kind of beat up survivor cars that they drive around the show in. One of them is a black 1970 barracuda convertible with a white strobe stripe down the side of it and I love seeing them like that .

Here's a picture of what I want my car to look like minus the red stripe and red interior and add a black stripe down the side of it and black steel rims.

Here's picture of the truck I just painted with the same kind of paint. It works great for a driver type car and can be color sanded and buffed.

I love the plan for the car. Drive em...thats what they are there for.

That's awesome. Unintentionally, I am doing the same with mine. For a while, it's going to be a beater on the outside, and a well-oiled machine underneath.

Just finished weilding a new quarter on the pass side and now I have to do the drivers side. Once that side is done I'm going to do a little body work and it will be time to spray her out. The body will be all done in a month with decals and all. Should have some pictures real soon. And if any one has any good ideas for making this project look aged please let me know.

how about adding a flattening agent to the paint?I got my car already ratted out..just had to add the 383.

Is that car the R/T convertible or is the 318 car? Either way sounds like a different idea for a change. The only thing to warn you is to expect a lot of negative from certain people. Keep us updated.

No it's not my 383 4 speed car, that car is being done up really nice and wont be driven all that much. This is just a 318 car that is pretty decent, just needs quarters and trunk extensions.

I've started working on some of the body panels for 383 4 speed plum crazy car as well. After sanding the white paint off the decklid you can see the car originaly had a white but stripe.

Good to hear you have a car you are passionate about. I just hope we don't hear of this car, down the road being sold as a survivor to some unsuspecting buyer at some show. Certainly we have all heard of the "middleman" who dopes up a car just enough to fool someone into thinking it is something it is not.

having fun and driving them is what its all about!!! who cares what others think.. carry on!!

found a site that makes old inspection stickers and thought this would make neat touch to my car.

http://inspectionsticker.net/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=19&sort=20a&page=5

Cool Project...All you need then is a Nixon-Agnew Bumpersticker...

We'll it's all in primer and I managed to get it all block sanded last night. The black paint goes on tonight . Then once it dries I'll sand with 1500 grit on the corners and on top of the hood and trunklid and let some of the grey primer shine though. I've been collecting survivor pictures for the last week of cars so I duplicate details to my car. Here's a picture of a door that I found on ebay that shows what kind of shape the stripe on my car should look like.

Also managed to pick up a old dealership emblem from a local dodge dealership, should add a nice touch. Any one have any photos of a challenger with the dealer decal or emblem on the back, just wondering where they slapped it most of the time.

Good for you. When I was able to buy my Challenger RT back from a buddy, after 15 years, I drove it like I used to. Didn't want to worry about chips and things.

You will have a blast driving it the way it was engineered to be.

some pics

picture of some big rust holes that will covered in primer after all painted(lol).