Re: My first full restoration attempt - 1970 'Cuda
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After priming, sealing, the TX9 base coat and several clear coats.
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Re: My first full restoration attempt - 1970 'Cuda
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...and door jamb. Because there was so little wear and virtually no rust, I decided to leave the interior as the factory had sprayed it. The car had factory undercoating, which was in remarkably good shape as well. Later, I used some of Resto Ricks undercoating to touch up some spots that needed it and then cleaned and repainted it. Sorry Dave, there were no Q-tips injured in the touch up of the factory undercoating.
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Re: My first full restoration attempt - 1970 'Cuda
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The car was finally back at my house for the long process of bodywork, priming and blocking and priming and blocking and priming and blocking......etc, etc.
The body was pretty straight to begin with....or so I thought. We spent just over 200 hours with long boards and such. I never thought it would end.
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Re: My first full restoration attempt - 1970 'Cuda
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Deja vu! I was able to get back my Challenger R/T. it has the same damage to a 1/4 from an evening when I saw my rear M-50 come rolling past me! It has alluminum slots, with long shank lug nuts, that liked to loosen on the driver side.
Made a sick feeling in the stomach, for sure.
'70 Challenger R/T 383 '16 Hemi Durango SSV (work vehicle) '15 Ram Police SSV
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Re: My first full restoration attempt - 1970 'Cuda
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I had to replace the seat bracing on both sides, because back in the early 80's, I tried to invent my own subframe connectors and they were just in the way. Ahhhh, the folly of youth.
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Re: My first full restoration attempt - 1970 'Cuda
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I knew I messed up when I took them off and had a set squireled away for many years just waiting for this moment to make good on my mis-steps.
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Re: My first full restoration attempt - 1970 'Cuda
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Back in the old days, the car body used to flex with a stock headed 440. I am going to run a motor with a bit more steam, so I installed a set of quality subframe connectors.
I figured after seeing what a lot of guys have to do to their sheet metal to deal with the rust issues most of these car have I can always spend the time to remove them if need be, and done with a bit of care, no one would ever be able to tell they were there.
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Re: My first full restoration attempt - 1970 'Cuda
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Once everything was all welded and ground, I used Resto Rick's undercoating to blend the new stuff in with the remaining, original undercoating.
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Re: My first full restoration attempt - 1970 'Cuda
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I freshened up each part and made some bolt on modifications/upgrades to the front and rear suspension and brakes.
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Re: My first full restoration attempt - 1970 'Cuda
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...FirmFeel stage 2 box, bigger tie rods, bigger front swaybar and larger front 11 3/4discs, added rear sway bar and Doctor Diff rear discs with Caltracs and mono's.
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Re: My first full restoration attempt - 1970 'Cuda
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Looks good.
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Re: My first full restoration attempt - 1970 'Cuda
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I can always spend the time to remove them if need be, and done with a bit of care, no one would ever be able to tell they were there.
ANYTHING can be done. just need the right set of hands....Keep the pics comming
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Re: My first full restoration attempt - 1970 'Cuda
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Thanks guys. Yah, Mopars were truely engineered for rapid transit out in the open spaces of Nevada and the like. The tire technology back then was a bit scary to go deep into the triple digits, but lots of folks did becuase they could.
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Re: My first full restoration attempt - 1970 'Cuda
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Looking across the cowl. Black cars....every little spec of dust shows up with the flash. It looks beter in person, especially after a color sand and buff.
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