Remember this heap? Actually, if you knew what you were looking at, the body was exceptional on this car. All original sheet metal except small patches seam welded in the rear lower quarters. Just like the blue 71 Cuda last year, we will be preparing this car for the mini restoration clinic on the morning of February 20th for the annual B/E & A winter party. With all the moving plans, painting floors & walls and installing a down draft easy bake oven, we will try to get as much of the assembly work done as possible. With the new facility, we will be able to do 100 percent of our restoration work in house short of motors done by Nick at Comp-U-flow and the 4-speed boxes by my very good friend Gus the meat smoking maniac.

I dragged the car to the shop that Saturday night of the Mopar Nationals with the help of Dennis the previous owner. He was kind enough to follow us on his way back to his home in Indiana. The actual restoration work started around the October 1st area. While the body was away, the drive line and interior work was done. If you remember, it took 5 days to assemble about 80 percent of the blue 71 Cuda last year. With all the additional distractions, I’m afraid the T/A might take 2 weeks to get it to that level .

I get asked all the time what it takes to do a body? Depends what level your looking for, there's 542 hours in this one.

Kinda hard to take a picture of pink, color is kinda different under the shop lighting.

Hey, how did my golf socks get there?

Since we used base/clear, instead of single stage, we will be back taping the entire car and appling the single stage over spray from paint that was left from tinting the sealer. We always tint the sealer so the color of the paint is correct and covers much better. Again, colors don't look right in the picture.

Once the over spray, black out and wheel wells are finished and all the lick knob stencils and paint dabs are finished, the driveline will be force fed up through her belly.

Mike,
Where can you get the "lick knob" stencils?

Bob

Hey, is that a Jim Ridge alternator and NOS fuel filter from Dave Walden? The radiator from Bob at Glen Ray will look perfect in front of that fan.

I've seen first hand a lot of the componets for this car. Judging by the amount of detail poured into the seperate parts, this is going to be one heck of a restoration....

I can't wait to see the finished product.

Hey Mike,

Car looks fantastic and is going to be really nice when you are done with it. I have to ask though. What is a "lick knob" stencil? I know about paint dobs and such.

Joe

Hey Mike,

Wow! that is looking awesome
I remember looking at that one at the Nats
Can't wait to see it complete
Talk too soon
Bob

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Mike-I knew sooner or later you come over to the dark side and join us "2%'ers" with your OE restoration.Did you find your date coded fuses yet?? All kidding aside,it looks great.Well back to the garage to create up that NOS Challenger T/A hood I just sold.....

Really cool to see the before and after paint shots. I saw the car at the Nats too. Lot of work there. Great looking resto.
KID

I will be keeping an eye on this one!! Keep up the good work.