Congratulations! I enjoy looking at this build.

Beautiful car, the landau top changes the whole look of the 71's. It is a shame the R/Ts weren't available with them. If I ever find the 71 R/T I am looking for, it will get a landau roof.

just read the thread from the start....GREAT JOB!!!!!!!

The car looks awsome.

Thanks CDN72SE, Even though it might look like a lot of pictures, I wish I had taken more pictures along the way as there was much more involved and a lot I just did when I'd get going and then would think oh, dang I wish I had pictures of what it looked like before. but again thank you I do appreciate someone else enjoying the build process as I did.

gss, Thank you too, Yes, I like the look of the landau better myself and was glad that the original owner had the dealer install one so I could keep the car all "correct" as delivered to the original owner. I haven't been able to find anyone that knows WHY they didn't offer the R/T with a landau vinyl and would love to find out the reasoning behind it.

Limelite, Thank you as well, I'm very happy with the car (even though I can pick out all the flaws) and enjoy the way heads turn and comments get shouted across the parking lot as you get in it or drive by, that's the cool stuff... when others enjoy it as well!

Looks great! I've been very, very slowly getting my 71 R/T into shape. Got most of the sheetmetal tackled last year. I'm overseas right now but when I get back in a few months I should finally be able to get her into paint! Seeing success stories like your's and the young guns super bee certainly helps keep the motivation up.

Thanks Bryan, I'd like to see your R/T if you'd care to share some pictures. What are some of the details of your car?

It's a B-5 blue w/black vinyl top 440/4 speed car. Bought it out of Pennsylvania about 10 yrs ago. Right now it's just a shell and still has some sheetmetal work to do before it goes into paint, but it's much much closer than it was even last winter (09-10). I hardly have any of the photos of the car with me, I've attached one of it last yr while the passenger quarter was off.

NICE!! I like it! I wish mine was a 4 speed car but it is all #s matching so I didn't want to mess with it. Did you get an AMD quarter or did you find a nice used one? Any time you want to send some more pictures I'd love to see more.

Used an AMD quarter on that side, used a partial donor quarter on the driver side. The guy who did the work said the AMD quarter was one of the best aftermarket ones he's ever worked with.

Freshing up the wheel wells with some black undercoat...otherwise the car looks amazing, I love the colour combo

Thanks Alan, Good observation, Will do!

Just looking at the pictures you posted....Your outdoor winter shots the wheel wells look nice and black, but the indoor shots they looked faded with some blue overspray...

Just looked again at the outdoor shots...absolutely love that combo, especially with the white halo top

Thanks for the compliments Alan, it's huge coming from a guy who does your caliber of work! I took your advice and blacked them out. I just plain overlooked that with the excitement of just being able to drive the car.

some dirt already in the wheel wells after blacking them out.... gotta drive it!

Here's how I blacked out the rear wheel wells.....Special rubberized coating...... very fun process of applying it!
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Re-applying rubberized undercoating in the fall before putting the car away.
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Thats the best way to undercoat wheelwells!! Awesome. Beautiful Charger BTW!

Thanks Mike. VERY NICE CAR! Is yours an original Elastomeric bumper car? Looks like California plates, is that where you picked it up?