...and the door jamb.

After priming, sealing, the TX9 base coat and several clear coats.

...trunk.

...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.

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.

WOOW, cool story!!!
Definetly got me interested.. I'll be waitin for more

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.

Very nice work so far. The black is very slick.

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.

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.

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.

Once everything was all welded and ground, I used Resto Rick's undercoating to blend the new stuff in with the remaining, original undercoating.

I freshened up each part and made some bolt on modifications/upgrades to the front and rear suspension and brakes.

...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.

Looks good.

Cool post! I can imagine some of the roads they used to race on around here, Pyramid HWY by chance? Great progress so far. You should be impressed with the handling mods you chose, Except for the Cal Tracs I have the same set in my 69 RR and its handles really well. Keep up the good work!

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.

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.

This cat now lives with my daughter.