So It Begins, 1966 Dodge Charger Restification

Hi All,

I am one of the newest guys on the block here, just joined today. My code name is SportFuryS/23383 (real name is Eric), and I am from Connecticut. I am mostly on the ForBBodiesOnly and ForCBodiesOnly Mopar Forums, and just joined 66-67Charger.com about a week ago. I and my stepfather are mainly into the big land yacht C-body Mopars but we do have one b-body Mopar, a 1966 Dodge Charger. Here is an overview of the build.....


The Car- The car is a 1966 Dodge Charger with a 383 4bbl Hi-Po engine with a red interior, power windows, full length console, floor console clock, and air conditioning. The exterior color is WW1 White.

The History- The car was originally bought new out of Santa Monica, CA on Jan 7, 1966, and still has its original certi-card. It was sitting in the previous 2nd owners garage and had not run since 1987, I have newspaper pictures from in the trunk to prove it. My stepfather who is the 3rd owner bought the car on August 14, 2015.

The Plan- The plan is to keep the red interior, paint the car silver, put a modern A/C unit in, upgrade the front brakes to disc and keep the backs original but rebuilt drums, put on Magnum 500 wheels, and maybe a tti exhaust kit on it too. (Make a clone from the 1966 Charger brochures with a bit of a twist) My "personal" plan is to hopefully document the progress, and make an album of the car being done and sharing it on here when I have time.

Hope you join me "along for the ride" along this journey.

Here are more pictures of how the car currently looks

a few more.....

Update From November 12th 2019. Unfortunately No Pictures:

November 7th- Gas tank dropped, old gas taken out and gas tank brought to get refurbished. Trunk carpet ripped out and thrown away.

November 11th- Old exhaust cut off and thrown away. Old rear bumper taken off.

November 12th- New rear shocks installed, Brake lines taken off. Discovered that the car has a 2.94 gear ratio!

First Picture "Update"-

The old exhaust. We thought it was the original 1966 exhaust but it wasn't. The exhaust had the "dip" in it so it wouldn't hit the frame, but turns out it is an exhaust from Midas. The tailpipes were rotted out and no good. The original shocks were ok but we wanted new stuff. More photos to come.....

More pictures of the exhaust. More to come.....

Final exhaust pictures.....

"Update" From 11/21/2019. Unfortunately No Photos:

No work done to the Charger lately since last update with needing brake parts and still having the gas tank worked on. However a gas tank gromment and 7 piece brake line with front right hump kit was ordered from InLine Tube today 11/21/2019. Stay tuned

Update From 12/8/2019. Unfortunately No Photos-

Gas tank back from being gone through/cleaned/rebuilt etc, and some brake work done also. Saw that on the right rear brake that I believe the return spring was missing. It was completely gone/non existent. Put on/shortened a '67 c-body (Fury) one. Otherwise not much else done sine then.

Update From February 8th, 2020. Unfortunately No Photos:

The gas tank came back from the shop cleaned out. My stepfather painted it silver and it is now back in the car. The gas tank I believe filler is being worked on as we speak as far as I know. I believe 2 rare rear bumper parts are painted as well.

And....

The rear drum brakes are now rebuilt with lines and everything, they are going to stay drums while the front is getting disc.

Soon Future Plans.... Convert front drum brakes to disc. Lastly in soon to be spring take the engine out, still not sure if we are going to use the engine that is in the car now or another rebuilt one.

Otherwise that is pretty much it for now. Stay tuned until next time. I will keep all updated....

Photo "Update" From March 3rd, 2020-

Not much done to the Charger lately. Just the gas tank piece painted and put back in the car. Here are a couple pictures of it painted

Update From March 17th, 2020-

Happy St. Patrick's Day to all the Irish members here on the forum. Tonight March 17 front brake converting begins!. Here are some pictures. Drums and backing plates taken off. Drums will no longer be used, going disc. Spindles, ball joints, calipers, u joints taken off and ordered from Rock Auto. That is all for now, nothing else can be done until parts come

A few more of the brakes, last ones.....

Update From March 18th, 2020 (318)-

Tonight 3/18..... Still working on the front brakes. Got shocks from a friend that were green and chipped so painted them black, and got new brake rotors, calipers and caliper boots from RayBesto's. Bushings, seals from RockAuto

A few more pictures of the brake parts......

Update From March 24th, 2020-

The brackets that held the car in place while being shipped were painted

Update From March 27th, 2020-

The Charger has been worked on a lot lately. Including a very exciting moment (at least for me, more on that in a bit.) The front brakes still need a few lines still hooked up but otherwise those are all set as far as I know, see pictures. I got quite a few pictures to share, here they are

Another Update From March 27th, 2020-

We now have disc brakes! Here are photos of the drivers side. All the brake work was done on March 19th, 20th, and 21st 2020

Below are the final pictures of the drivers left side

Time for the right passenger brake. More pictures to come.....

More pictures of the right side, a couple more to come.

Final photos of the brakes.....

Great project Eric. You guys are making some wonderful progress.

great seeing another early Charger coming back.

Engine tear-down and pull-out time! (the exciting part at least for me). The engine was torn down March 23rd through March 25th, 2020. More pictures to come.....

More of the engine tear-down. More to come......

More of the tear-down, more to come......

More to come.....

By pulling the motor apart we discovered the car has 516 heads on it. A few more to come.....

Last photos, then onto photos of taking the engine out of the car. Whoever worked on or fixed the engine before we got it did it the half ass way, example there is supposed to be 4 or 5 bolts holding the transmission to the engine, there was only one. Trust me there was plenty more wrong when pulling out the motor, but I will not get into it. The last 2 box pictures are parts from the charger. Onto taking the engine out now!

It's Finally Time, Taking The Engine Out!. This was my favorite part. The engine was taken out of the car yesterday March 26th, 2020. First order of business, push the car out of the garage a little bit so we have more room to work. It's a small garage and it's where they used to store horses back in the day.

More of the engine, more to come.....

A few more, last ones.....

The Engine Is Finally Out, woohoo.We decided to keep the transmission in because it works great

Now that the engine is out, here are some more pictures of it. Need new freeze plugs.....

More of the engine.....

2 more, last ones......

A few more that I forgot I had. One more after these.....

last one.....

Misc pictures...... Below are a couple pictures of the new master cylinder that will most likely be used.

A couple more, last ones.....

"New" Update From March 27th, 2020- Today March 27, 2020. Starting to sand the hood to prep it for primer then paint. Sanding with a sand wheel, and what we can't reach with that we will use a scotch brite "scrubby" pad. All in all, what we can't get with the sanding wheel will be done by hand. After some sanding, here is the result. There is still plenty more to do, this is just the start. A few more pictures to come.....

A few more, last ones.

Update-

Hi everyone, the Dodge letters on the hood are now off and the hood now has 2 coats of primer on it. The car is now covered and ready for primer. The primer was put on March 28th, 2020. Need new letters as half the studs are broken off as you can see from the picture, but bagged them to save them for now. The primer that will be used is a Rust-oleum primer sealer spray can. See 3rd picture, more pictures to come......

This is after 2 coats with the can above, I think it looks pretty damn good.

more of the primer.....

A couple more, last ones......

Update From March 29th, 2020......

The headlight motors were tested, and they work! These parts in the pictures did not work, and was looking for some. No need, found some thanks to a friend who got them from Mr. Topher "the headlight man". Thank you very much gents, it is much appreciated.

Update From March 30th, 2020-

March 30th, 2020. Taken all the front lights, chrome and other components off to power wash them and to start getting ready to prime that main area.

"New" Update From March 31st, 2020-

Power washing the parts today that were taken off yesterday. Pictures before wash are below, more to come.....

A few more, one more after these......

Last one. Now onto pictures after the wash......

Parts after wash are below, more to come......

A few more, one more after this.....

last one, then onto painting parts.....

Priming the hood latch and painting the support brace. More pictures to come.....

More pictures, more to come.....

A couple more, last ones. Then onto engine compartment sanding and priming......

Update From April 2nd, 2020-

The rest of the engine compartment was sanded and primered on March 31st, 2020. More pictures to come......

more sanding, more pictures to come......

More of the engine compartment. Notice the factory paint run marks in the 2nd picture, there are plenty more of those in upcoming pictures.....

More paint runs.......

Headlight numbers......

More paint runs on the drivers side in the 2nd picture.......

Last one.......

Time for primer.....Taped off the top chrome fender side strip and covered the windshield of the car. See first picture. The primer was put on April 1st, 2020. Starting to prime. More pictures to come.....

Continuing to prime.....

So after one coat of primer.....here is what we have below

After a 2nd and final coat of primer, here is what we have.....

More of the primer.....

more primer....

A few more of the primer.....

One more of the primer, last one......

Update From Thursday April 2nd, 2020-

Oil was drained out of the engine. Also took the oil pan off and took out the freeze plugs and inside of freeze plugs was cleaned out. Finishing cleaning the rest of the engine as well.

More of the engine with the pan off....

More pictures of the engine. The plan is to keep what is in the engine right now, the oil pan may be salvageable.Stay tuned for an update on that.....

Cleaned out the freeze plug holes......

The first picture is taken from the left front side of engine. The second picture is taken from the left back side of engine.

The first picture is taken from the right back side of engine. The second picture is taken from the right front side of engine

"Update"- Hedman headers came today April 3rd 2020, along with a windage tray and a few other parts from Jegs. Unfortunately we decided not to go with TTI's as originally planned, as it is not in the budget right now. More photos to come later on, stay tuned......

Update- Here are a couple more pictures of the parts that came from Jegs. New engine freeze plugs and a windage tray

Update From April 4th, 2020-

Engine parts were painted today and the old oil pan was also fixed and sanded.The first picture shows that the paint is actually 318 small block engine red paint. This is not the actual paint that will be used on the rest of the 383, just the "base coat" to prevent it from rusting. The gray part is already blasted and painted

The original metal splash guards all painted.....

Motor Mounts Before Paint.These were painted around April 4th, 2020.....

Motor Mounts After Paint. I am pretty damn happy with how these look, as I personally painted them. My stepfather painted all the other stuff.....

Oil pan with dents now taken out of it. See old pictures of how it used to look.....

After being sandblasted, here is what we have......

Keep in mind again the paint is 318 small block engine paint applied, just to keep it from rusting. Orange paint will be applied when we get it.

Update From April 5th, 2020-

Today April 5th, 2020. All 6 of the new freeze plugs were put in the engine, and the horns were sandblasted and painted. I also took another picture of the new windage tray too, (see third picture below). Come to find out when we pulled the oil pan off the engine it did not have one. Looking good. More pictures to come of the horns later, stay tuned......

Update From April 5th, 2020-

The original horns are now sandblasted and painted. They were blasted and painted today April 5th, 2020. I am pretty happy with these, as I again personally painted them. Here are the before paint pictures. More to come.....

Here are a few more, now for some after paint pictures.......

Horns after paint, only 2 pictures. Could get more if anyone wants me to......

Update- The engine block is now painted HEMI orange. The paint used was Dupli-color Chrysler HEMI Orange DE1652, see last picture. It was painted Monday April 6th, 2020. Notice the old oil pan was salvaged and is now being reused again. More pictures to come.....

Last 2 of the engine. Then onto cleaning up the 516 heads......

Update From Easter Sunday April 12th, 2020-

We decided to pressure wash the engine heads. They were washed with a hot high pressured gun, but unfortunately not everything came off. Also that said you should of seen all the 30 plus year old nasty rust sludge that came out, pretty disgusting. After power washing here is what we have, notice some turquoise paint now showing. Mind you this is a picture of one head......

Sorry I only have 2 pictures of the other head.......

New Update- The front end in front of the core support outside the engine bay where the headlights go was sanded and primered. It was sanded around Easter Sunday April 12th, 2020. Primered Tuesday April 15th, 2020. Some before pictures with it sanded. More to come.....

A couple more before primer......

After primer pictures. More to come....

More pictures of the primer, last ones. Next will be pictures of factory spot welds and paint mess ups....

Pictures of factory spot welds and paint mess ups. In my opinion I always like seeing these types of things and think they are interesting. Sorry if some of these are blurry. Notice the welds where the L chrome piece goes, and on the core support. What is that circle stamping looking thing in the 2nd picture?. More pictures to come.....

Paint mess ups, yes these are factory. These are all the pictures I have for now, more to come soon. Stay tuned.....

Here is some of the latest on the car...... A lot of work has been done lately. I will start from the beginning of what has been done recently so far.

First, the valves were hand-lapped and the heads were ported a little bit. This was done last Friday April 17th, 2020. Here are a few pictures.....

We Struck Gold!! Not really, I wish. Just opened up the headers box and took one out to see what they looked like. That's mainly it. We opened the box on Saturday April 18th, 2020. Here are some pictures. 2 more after this.....

Last 2 pictures of headers or "the gold" for me. Then onto something more exciting.....

Thank you Mr. Dave, I hope you follow the rest of the build.

Thank you sir. I hope you follow the rest of the build.

We Now Have Silver Color!!! It was applied Sunday April 19th, 2020. This is 2 coats before 2 clear coats. A few more to come....

More.The first picture is of more factory spot welds I did not see before....

A few more, one more after this......

Last one. These are all the pictures I have for now. Stay tuned for more soon....

2 Coats Of Clear Are Now On!! It was applied Monday April 19th, 2020.....

More.....

more. In the 3rd picture are more spot welds I did not notice before.....

A couple more last ones.The EMB photo is the letters and numbers hood hinge. More to come.....

More, one more after this......

Last one, this is on the left side by the cowl. Now onto cleaning and painting the K member....

K Member Time! It was cleaned, sanded, and painted Tuesday April 21st, 2020. Here are pictures of it before, along with a motor mount and steering box number picture....

Last before picture, steering box numbers.....

After sanding and painting. Final pictures....

The new brake booster. Got from Advance Auto, and traded in the old core. That is all the pictures I have for now, stay tuned....

New Update-

Here are some transmission seal and transmission pictures. We took the stock torque converter out today April 24th 2020 to check the seals, and were going to replace the converter with a more snappy one to get off the line quicker. That plan unfortunately did not work out, so the stock converter is going back in. We did however learn that the transmission is a 1970 B & E body transmission, and has a 19 spline converter......

Look at the last picture of the pan rail numbers.....

Good morning everyone. I just figured I would post up more pictures of the engine, this time of the top half getting painted. This was done Thursday April 23rd, 2020. Below are pictures of it before the top half was painted. Note the cylinder head that we put back on in the first picture so we could paint the sides of those as well. Notice in the 4th picture that the valve covers are back on, they are there to protect the top of the inside of the cylinder heads. They will not be used on the engine though, the plan is to save them just in case we need them and put new chrome Direct Connection ones on instead. A few more to come.....

Paint Time! A few more to come........

Last ones......

Engine bolts before paint, all cleaned and ready. These were painted yesterday April 24th, 2020......

Engine bolts after paint.......

A few pictures of the new sway bar bushing kit. Got this the same time we got the new brake booster, forgot when it was though......

Some final engine bay pictures before the engine goes back in. Notice the battery tray is bolted in, as well as the rest of the brake lines. So that means all the brake lines are done. One more picture after these.....

Last picture, then onto some goodies that got delivered from Jegs.....

We Got Parts! Received them on April 24th, 2020. A couple more after these......

Last ones.....

The Engine Is Finally Going Back In! It was done Friday April 24th, 2020. It's "funny" how it takes more time to put an engine back in a car than it is taking it out. We must of spent at least an hour getting it lined up and back in. Here are some pictures......

Last ones......

Got some ambition today to clean up the old starter a little bit, or at least just the date code part. Here is a picture of the numbers that are on it. Is it a 1968 starter?......

Are you kidding me? At the pace you are moving?

I'd settle for 5% of your energy.

Point taken Dave.

Hi all,

Sorry I have not provided an update on the Charger in a little while, it has been coming along lately and a lot of work has been done. I first want to start with the interior, the drivers seat is now out of the car and sold thanks to someone on Moparts, as I am also a member there. It was taken out of the car on Monday April 27th, 2020 and sold Tuesday April 28th, 2020. I figured I would double check the seat back to see if there was a broadcast sheet in there just in case, I unscrewed the bottom seat back screws and popped it open........Unfortinatley nothing, . I however do think I may have found something under the passenger seat though, but not sure if it is a broadcast sheet or not. More on that in a bit. Here are a few pictures of when the seat was out of the car and before the interior was vacuumed out. Pretty disgusting. The very last picture is the bottom of the seat after it was out, good thing they make new foam for these......

Update-

April 30th, 2020. The new brake booster was painted, 2 and final coats of paint were on this when I took these pictures.

Update-

May 1st, 2020. Got the left head and header on, right side head gasket, and also got a present today. Turns out we had to make modifications to the header as it was hitting the steering box, . Luckily we modified it and it clears now, thank God . The present I am talking about is an AFCO Performance aluminum radiator.

Last ones......

Update-

May 2nd, 2020. Got the right side head and header on today. The header gave us some clearance issues as well, however that is also fixed thank God. What was wrong with that was it was hitting the I believe transmission or the pan. Now that the heads are on they are all torqued to 70 too.

Last ones......

Update-

Sunday May 3rd, 2020. The old transmission pan is off, and the transmission oil is getting drained. The oil looks great with no metal shavings or anything, all clear. The transmission was also rebuilt before we got the car too. The old pan will not be used, it will be saved in-case we need it for another project or we ever decide to sell the car. Going to be using a deeper aluminum pan with fins to cool the transmission down faster instead. More to come......

Last ones......

Here is the new aluminum pan with the fins. The first picture of it is before paint, the paint was put on Sunday May 3rd, 2020......

Last ones.....

Update-

March 3rd, 2020. The rockers and the distributor were put back on the engine. The rockers were oiled as well.

A few more. Last ones. That is all for now, stay tuned......

Those headers are a tight squeeze, aren't they?

They actually don't fit that bad although we had to make 2 modifications. I'll tell ya one thing they fit better than TTI's that go on C-bodies

Hi everyone,

Not much updates on the Charger lately. Got a friends car project here and other projects here as well going on right now. Just got the vacuuming shown here, and the painting of the grille and headlight bezels for now. The vacuuming I personally did, it was done May 4th 2020 and took me about an hour and a half all said and done with doing both front and back sides of the car. Remember all that gross dried up seat foam that used to be in the 1st 3 pictures? All gone now, and amazingly we also found a piece of a check cleaning it out too. Yes I am serious and not kidding when I say a check. Notice the factory seat belts date coded 1965 also. Pictures of the right side of the car vacuumed out will hopefully come tomorrow, stayed tuned......

More.....

Yes I am serious and not kidding when I say a check, see 2nd picture here. Pictures of the right side of the car vacuumed out will hopefully come tomorrow, stayed tuned......

Hi everyone,

Here are the pictures of the car vacuumed out I did not get to post yesterday, of the right passenger side. It was done May 4th 2020 like the left drivers side. Notice the factory back seat belt date coded 1965, however I could not get a picture of the front seat belt with the seat there and I believe it was stuck as well. Here are pictures of the passenger side before it was vacuumed out.....

More of the car before it was vacuumed out.

The passenger side all vacuumed out. Here are some pictures, what a difference......

Notice the old Christmas card box as well though, it was found under the seat along with that little piece of folded paper in the springs which I will also post here as well.

Here are the pictures of the paper under the seat under the springs. I honestly thought it was the broadcast sheet but folded up, I am pretty sure I got my hopes up on it for nothin'. Oh well, all I can do is take the seat out of the car and gently pull the paper out. Any other thoughts on this though, it has to be something from the factory if it is stuck under the springs right? These are all the pictures I have for right now, stay tuned until later......

Hi everyone,

Sorry I have not given an update on the Charger lately, but not much of an update on it. We have a friends car project over our house, not to mention another one of our PITA car projects we are working on as well so it has been put on hold for a couple weeks. So far we painted the alternator bracket, grill and headlight covers, the A/C condenser, taken out the original A/C ranker valve to have it rebuilt, and putting the "new" transmission pan on have been done. The alternator bracket was painted Tuesday May 5th, 2020. Sorry I did not post this earlier.

The headlight assembly is now painted, it was painted Tuesday May 5th, 2020. The last 2 pictures is before that was painted, now to just get the access paint out from in between the ribs.

One more picture, the picture above and below are before that was painted. Now to just get the access paint out from in between the ribs.

The A/C condenser is now painted. It was painted Thursday May 7th, 2020.

The headlight covers are now painted. They were painted Mother's Day Sunday May 10th, 2020.
Now to just get the access paint out from in between the ribs.

The main center grill is now painted, it was painted Wednesday May 13th, 2020. Now to just get the access paint out from in between the ribs.

Last ones.....

Hi everyone,

I have a little update on the Charger build. We got some 8mm Accel Super Stock spiral wires (part number 5045K) from Fast Guppy Speed Shop for the car, we also got an Edlebrock Performer 383 intake from a fellow member on the FCBO Mopar forum, got the transmission pan on, and took out the original A/C ranker valve to have it rebuilt. I will start in order, we got the wires on May 14th, 2020 but did not put them in yet. The wires on the hood of the car under the cover in the last picture are spares or extras

These are spares or extras

After we got the wires, we then mocked up the intake we got from a member on ForCBodiesOnly (as I am also a member) on the engine on the same day of May 14th, 2020. Notice the intake valley tray and gaskets, they will be used once we officially bolt the intake to the car.

On May 23rd 2020, we got the "new" deeper transmission pan on the car to cool it down easier.

Also on May 23rd 2020 we got had the privilege to meet David (Chargercrazed) from here who lives in New York, we exchanged a couple parts that day. We got some side rocker moldings from him while he got our old spindles from our drum brakes when we converted them to discs.Thanks again Dave, it was great meeting you. Hope to keep in touch!

Got the original Ranco A/C ranker valve out on May 23rd 2020. It has a factory what looks to be gasket mess up, see the 3rd to last picture. This was taken by a friend of ours who is going to ship it to Pennsylvania to have it rebuilt.

More of the ranker valve.....

A couple more of the valve, last ones......

"Newer" update- We got chrome Direct Connection valve covers for the Charger, we had them for awhile sitting in the packages collecting dust and waiting to go onto something so now is the time to use them.

They were test fitted May 24th, 2020.

After the left side mock up and test fit both valve covers are now on......The right side was put on the same day as the left one May 24th 2020, and now that both valve covers are on we put the manifold bolts on and tighten them up. This was done May 24th 2020 as well.

A few more, the intake is bolted on and tightened now......

The brake booster is on and bolted up now, it was put on May 27th 2020.

The brake booster is on and bolted up now, it was put on May 27th 2020.

The Accel Super Stock spark plug wires and protectors or boots, the alternator and bracket, and power steering pump are now on. All of these were put on May 30th, 2020. In order starting with the spark plug wires.....

Now for the boots.....

A few more of the boots, last ones.....

Now for pictures of the alternator.This is not the original, it is an extra one we had. The original was hard to turn so basically it was no good......

Now for the pictures of the power steering pump. That is the original pump that came with the car, there was nothing wrong with it and worked fine so it just got a paint job.......

Here are a couple pictures of the engine "all together", just a few more things to do.

Took the new AFCO aluminum radiator out of the box yesterday June 1st, 2020. Pure "gold", love it. This is all I got for updates on the car for right now, have not really done anything else to it. Stay tuned.....

Hi All,

I have a little update on the Charger for everybody, not much of one but here it is. We ordered a carburetor spacer from Jegs and we put it on the car, along with the carburetor we had sitting around that will be used. The carburetor was gone through so it does properly work, it is a 600 cfm Edelbrock so it will work for a stock 383. We put them on June 6th 2020.

More of the carb and spacer, one more on the way

last picture, until next time stay tuned.....

Hi All,

I got another little update on the Charger, well kind of a big one. June 10th 2020 we mocked up and bolted in the new AFCO aluminum radiator, put the drive fan on, a new Accel Super Stock coil in, put the horns back on, put the carburetor linkage on, and even started putting the front headlight assembly and grill in. I will start the update with mocking up the new radiator. We mocked it up where we thought was appropriate and it did not work, we closed the hood to test the fitment and it fit very nicely BUT it was JUST touching the top of the cap but that was fixed......

A few more of the radiator mock up, last ones.....

Next we put on the Accel Super Stock coil bracket and coil, on the left in the 3rd picture is the original coil the right is the new one that will be used......

Next we got the brake booster hose, carb linkage, and pcv valve all set and hooked up.At this point the radiator is all together......

A few more of the linkage, cables, and hoses. Last ones....

The horns are on now as well.

Here is the headlight assembly and grill on now. The low beam headlights were changed to Halogen's to see better, the high beams were not changed....yet but will be at a later time. I gotta say with the headlight assembly and grill on the car now it actually looks like a car now!

A few of the new headlights......

A few more, last ones......

While putting the headlight assembly back in, we took all of the old headlight limit switches out because some did not work.

We now have new and longer headlight switches we got from a member on FBBO and the 66-67Charger.com forum.

Well we caved in and bought it, the new "Stage 2" modern air conditioning kit from Original Air (www.originalair.com)! We paid the $850.00 and turns out we had to pay $72.00 Florida tax also. Here is the link below. That is all the updates I have for right now, stay tuned..... https://www.originalair.com/66-70-b...0-134a-engine-compartment-upgrade-kit-stage-2.

Hi All,

I got another update on the Charger. A new Halogen high beam headlight was put in, and we did not have anymore after that so another was ordered from RockAuto. The new headlight limit switches we got from a member from FBBO and 66-67charger.com were hooked up as well, we also put on the left side headlight bezel, we put on a Mr. Gasket air breather cap on the left side valve cover, and also got some wiring started as well. These were all done yesterday June 12th, 2020. I will start with the lights first......

A few more of the lights.....

Last light picture, this picture and the picture above are of the new light limit switches. Now onto pictures of the air breather cap......

Next is the Mr. Gasket left side valve cover air breather cap.....

Now for the part I am sure EVERYONE hates, the wiring. It is a work in progress and is not completely finished yet. We are adding electronic ignition to the car......

A few more pictures of the wiring, that is mainly it for updates of the car for right now. Stay tuned.....

Hi All,

A little bit has done to the car lately, and still working on the wiring. We got the new high beam from Rockauto, although it is not in yet. We also got the lights working and rotating, and got a new battery for the car as well. It is a Mopar battery too. Otherwise that is mainly all that got done so far.....

A few of the headlights working again.....

A few of the battery, sorry but this is all the updates I got for now. Stay tuned.....

Hi All,

I got a little more "background information" so to speak on our Charger. I was poking around on www.1966-67ChargerRegistry.com recently looking for another Charger I saw at a show in Michigan last year, and I just so happened to find our car on there. I did not even submit it but was thinking about it. Anyway.......

According to the registry our Charger was built around 8.9% of the way through the production run, it is the 3,353rd Charger out of the 37,344 that were built, it was 1 of 2 1966 Chargers registered in San Jose California and was 1 of 24 registered in California. It also believe it or not did not come with a roof stripe. That is mainly all I got, I just figured I would share this information with you all because I love to find it out and know this type of stuff......

Hi All,

here is my latest update on the Charger build. It is coming along rather nicely, been working on it quite a bit. We do still have a little bit of wiring to finish up I think but we got the other right side high beam light in, the right side headlight lens in, both of the front turn signal/parking lights in and working now as well, the front air shield (if that is what you call it I think) on the bottom of the core support painted and on the car, the front sway bar together, and the Classic Auto Air a/c kit even came. I will start with the lights, the left side parking light was put in on June 19th 2020 and the right side a few days after on June 22nd 2020.

A couple of the right side parking light......

Pictures of the right side headlight lens, it was put in June 22nd 2020 as well. Well that is all for now, more to come later on.....

A couple more of the lens, last ones.......This is all I got for now, stay tuned.