I did not mean to steal another thread so I will start this up for anyone interested in checking out my latest project. Don't worry I still have a kick ass E Body.
Here are some recent pics of my '68 Charger I am currently restoring back (my way).
Before
during (body and metal work)
after paint
As you can see a donor drivers side rear 1/4 was needed,work to the same side rocker,
Here is the old 1/4 and I used a piece of it so I could do a patch on the other side lower 1/4
and a partial trunk pan was welded in.
after paint
That was the areas in serious need of metal work on the Charger. I took a part the Charger and bagged, tagged, and took note of what I felt was needed to take notes of.
Later, I stripped the paint using an aircraft stripper. It took a long time. I first stripped the car down and then removed fenders, doors, hoods, and did all those off the car inside out.
Later, I did the exterior and then the interior. The guy that had the car before me used Dynomat on the floors, and I had to use a heat gun and scraper to remove it all from the floor pans.
Then I used the stripper to remove the factory paint.
Next came the metal work that required welding. new 1/4
Then it was on to the body and getting it ready to spray primer inside of my garage. I made a half ass paint booth and went to it.
I worked on b blasting the rear end, k member, and a bunch of other parts.
I rebuilt the front end after the parts were finished coated.
BEFORE
I decided to use polyurethane bushings, hemi size torsion bars and and a hemi size sway bar to the front, while the back I added new hemi leaf springs,
new shocks, new gas tank, and 3/8" fuel lines to feed my new stroker.
I also changed the drums up front to Disk using PST parts. New SST brake lines were installed, and I had to modify the steering shaft to make it the right size (shortened it up) to be used with a new power steering unit. The car had a manual steering box (ick). I bought and installed a new universal coupler, it needed a specific size in order to be used for power steering.
Down below the car I blew on some new chassis black paint to the factory undercoating.
First I had to make a big mess using my power sprayer to get all the dirt and grime off. Later, I masked off this surface and primered, and painted the rails to match the color of the exterior.
I also had gotten Matt Delaney to build me a 472" stroker using a 400 block.
I also sent out the rear end, and the tranny to get rebuilt. I added posi to the rear and changed out the gears to 3:54's. I also sent out the dash cluster to get rebuilt, calibrated, refaced, and the clock turned into quartz timed movement. The Charger has been through a whole lot to this point.
The car got out of my buddies paint shop where I chose a color that has a Mecedes Benz, Viper, combo silver, with deep metallic flakes. It was shot with a pearl coat to give it a very deep look.
Now the fun begins building it all back together. I have chosen to go with a red interior in place of the black. I think that it will look real sharp inside of the silver outside paint.
