My 70 Charger R/T project - home from paint 11/25/17
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The fun has begun!!!!!!My goal is to have this finished by spring of 2012. I hope I make it. Body work is just getting under way. It is being handled by Vance Cummins out of West Michigan. My project is a 70 Charger R/T 440-4 speed. FJ5 with white bucket/console interior. I do not have the matching # drive train so I am going with a 440-6 instead. 70 440 HP Motor is done and ready to install. I will try to post every few weeks with some progress photos. The first few are shortly after I dropped it off for start of body work.
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Ready to get started on metal replacement...needs trunk floor, extensions, driver front floor, quarters and a few other repairs. Car was out of Montana so has great looking underside.
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Roof skin was removed to have it chemically stripped. Someone along the line DA'd some of the outer panels and never primed them. The metal was pitted so we chose to strip the roof. Also replacing the upper cowl with a mint original. It is laying in place in this photo. Mine had some dents, dings as well as some rust thorugh in the lower window channel.
You can alos see in the photo that someone robbed the Z bar mounting bracket and part of the frame rail with a cutting torch. They also removed the 4 speed hump and a large section of the DS floor pan. This will all be repaired shortly.
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Trunk lid was chem stripped/dipped and has been primed. One very minor metal repair was required on this original lid.
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We are about to order the quarters, trunk floor, extensions & dutchman panel from AMD. The major metal replacment work shoud start very soon afterward.
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Trunk lid before chem stripping...
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You can see evidence of the original black C stripe in this photo.
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Wow that is gonna be a great project. Have you seen another car like it with its combo of options? It always amazes me when you wonder what other cool cars were "parted" out back in the day. Good luck with the resto, I can't wait to see the progress Dave
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Definetly a very nice car, with very nice paint code ... Always was a sucker for "high impact" colors Good luck, i'll definetly be watchin for updates!!
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Grille is restored and ready to install when the time comes..
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Other parts awaiting finish work:
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