The minimal knowledge resto.........

[R/T hedkace]

 Well my Chally has FINALLY got shelter    My buddy has let me use his garage  (yes I owe him dearly),(he's as good as they get  ) Yes his kids already want to be involved 
My bud, and I will be taking this on headfirst  With the hopes of gaining as much knowledge as possible along the way. We are going to do our best, regardless of how it turns out   
 This is a whole new creature to us, welding skills are minimal, so we will need an immense amount of help from all who are willing to share some knowledge......PLEASE PLEASE    I will have a million questions, (I already do, and It's only the second day  ) So I do apologize in advance for being a future pain in the @ss   
 Don't look for any impressive updates  , but I will share everything we try to accomplish 
Wish us luck 

By the way, first question, Where the f#%k do you begin 

[R/T hedkace]

More holes 

[Four-Forty-fied]

By the way, first question, Where the f#%k do you begin 

Body shop guys seem to always work back to front, atleast on unibodies that is. Guess it has to do with structural integrity, and once that is all squared away, you can line up the doors, fenders and hood.

Good luck, and post many, many photos!

[crazy larry]

Looks to be missing some parts, Welding skills will be advanced when your done. Cut out the rust and fab new patch panels to fill the hole. 110 mig welder shielded gas is your friend. And sand blaster.

[Topcat]

Congrats on someone helping you get a shelter. That is a good friend indeed. Got anymore friends with empty garages?

[Four-Forty-fied]

While on the subject of welding, when welding sheet metal, don't lay a bead. The thin metal can't take the heat. Keep tack welding it, with each tack in the middle of the last section until it is pretty much as solid as a bead.

[R/T hedkace]

Thanks guys, appreciate it bigtime  

Will try that F F fied 

110 mig welder shielded gas is your friend. And sand blaster.

Have both  

Looks to be missing some parts

Nope, she was 100% complete, before I took her apart  
Here's a few pics from the early nineties

[moparclown]

I need to get up your way,and I know that I keep saying that.But I have been so freakin busy I feel like a wirlwind.And as winter sets in My project will have to stop for a while(garage has no heat)so when I am climbing the walls around here itching to work on my car your gonna get a call from the clown.Just a suggestion to get used to working with a welder and sheetmetal get an old fender and cut some chunks out and reattach em.It gets you used to the welder and also give you a little practice on fitting.Just my two cent's--------the Clown

[EvilTwinATX]

Where to begin? Next car I do the FIRST thing I do is build a rotisserrie.... you can beat it for being able to get to the hard to reach places...no welding above your head, etc..

[Rev-It-Up]

This will be another fun project to watch come back to life!  What do you see her looking like when she's done?  Going back plum crazy?  What engine do you have for her?

[Super Blue 72]

Glad to see that your starting the process!  I'll be watching!   
  Great pal you have there!

Maybe not much to contribute though.  There's lots of people here that can do that better than I.   

I guess I would start by emptying  the car out and organizing everything to make the process smoother.  The rotisserrie that EvilTwinATX suggested sounds like a great idea if you can hack it.

This is what mine looks like:

[DMZ73]

R/T-

I jsut saw your post. I have just pulled the roof skin off of my Challenger. I was going to toss the whole skin, but I see that maybe you may be able to use the front edge. Mine seems OK. Do you need it?
heres what the front edge looked like before I drilled it out.

http://www.pbase.com/dmz73/image/67929537

If you want, I can cut off a section-

Best regards,

dmz73

[Street_Challenged73]

R/T, I'm glad you found a place to store it and that you're able to start working on it.  Just take your time and be accurate with your work and it'll be an amazing car when you are finished!!!

[JCWCuda]

I may have to take road trip Too  If i remeber correctly you live in or near Westfield ? if so its only an hour and a half away (to the exit ) I drive by there every night for Work on my way to Manchester NH

[R/T hedkace]

 First off, my bud (who owns the garage) just had a baby boy  number 4     
So I took some time off, no need to be grinding away with a new one around, but all is well, and that's all that matters, so were back on track now 
 Thanks everyone for the support, I'm gonna need it 
 M Clown, Whenever you get the chance to come up this way, just let me know. VERY cool of you to offer your assistance  No rush. What are ya doing tommorrow, the next day, the next day after that  J/K
 Evil, I am just waiting for sadil340 to finish up with his Cuda, and I'll be heading down to Conn. for the rotiserrie   
 SB72, I don't know what to say, but I nearly pissed myself  Good job man 
 DMZ73, Thanks a million for the offer, I'll definitely take you up on that. I can maybe give you a few Chally parts if your missing anything that I may have. Just let me know. I'll be in touch 
JCW, I'm actually in Worcester, but feel free to stop by anytime at all 
 Got new sheetmetal this weekend 
Also we got some work done/started/F'd up  We took out the drivers trunk floor extension, cut some of the quarter panel out, and started drilling out the spot welds in the trunk. I know this may not seem like a lot to some, but to me it's a huge step. Were having a blast learning what to do  and what NOT to do  quickly.
 By the way how the hell do you get an outer wheelwell housing off 
 Thanks all