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some updates!
scored a few parts on ebay that arrived this week
Fuel trime ring for around the gas door was missing
What itās supposed to look like:
So wierd things: The car originally had a blue interior. P.O. changed the carpet, dash, center console, and passenger door panel over to black somehow by sourcing spare parts. the passenger armrest is brown(painted/dyed black), the seatbelts have been dyed black(poorly), and the rear panels/driverās door panel/armrest have been āpaintedā black. We striped the original panels that were painted, and re-did the rear stuff with the krylon fusion like we did on the seat backs, and those came out great! the driverās door panel however is in bad shapeā¦heavy sanding scratches, P.O. must have prepped with 80grit :gotme:
SO, we had been scouring CL and ebay for weeks trying to find a door panel, replacement replicas are $500/pair! Ended up finding one on ebay for $105 SHIPPED!!! Even had the armrest, all in MINT shape!!!
Also, My dad finally got in contact with a friend of his that collects/restores old muscle cars, and got him to take him to some trade-secret junkyard in the middle of nowhereā¦they had ONE challenger and it was a '71ā¦he snagged originial mirrors that were restorable, and a couple of the badges that were intact. I donāt have any pictures of his junkyard scores nor any progress on the restoration of the mirrors, he started and has almost finished sanding them down and spraying them with a permatex product to make them black (he said the chrome was badly pitted and not capable of a re-chrome)
thatās all for now until I can get out there again for some pictures.
Well. dad recently put the car up on some huge jackstands to start checkout out bushings and suspension componants, and found THIS:
(I forgot to snap pic before I started hitting it with the grinder)
made up some patch peices from some nice C-channel steel my dad aquired from work and welded 'em up.
Nice work, what products did you use for dying the parts? Iām about to buy SEMs product line for dying plastics and vinyls because I heard great reviews.
yeah SEMs is the shit man, we used that in vinyl based parts and krylon fusion on plastic parts
Finished up patching the frame today, I only snapped a couple extra picsā¦most of the patches were in really hard to reach places and impossible to photograph (I.E. behind the steering box and crap like that). Also snapped some pics of the new carb and air cleaner while I was in there.
Still chipping awayā¦New gas tank is in and today I went over there and put new brakes in all around, a new idler arm, and new e-brake cables. no pics though, was pretty grimey dirty work so I didnt mess with a camera/phone.
gonna flat black the replacement hood and button up a few minor details and then reg/inspect it for some heaterzzzzzzzz
Dad put it on the road Wednesday, so he took it for a shakedown cruise yesterday and I followed behind to make sure there wasnt anything going on he couldnt see. Heās having it inspected tuesday, and next week Iāll start working on the replacement hood.
Heres a shitty Walk-around video:
[video]https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10100587092997878[/video]
And hereās a shitty video of him pulling out of the driveway. I was trying to vid with my phone while driving stick, and noticed in the viewer he looked super far away so I stopped shooting.
[video]https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10100587104938948[/video]
Vids wouldnāt work for me, looking forward to seeing more pictures!
anyone else have issues with the vids? I got the walkaround onto photobucket instead of Facebook, but the shakedown vid somehow corrupted on my phone and wonāt work, and I canāt pull it off the SDcard either. FUCK
Forgot I also snapped these pics:
Looks great Nick :tup:
Definitely looking nice. Great job.
I havenāt driven it yet 
Dad was walking new tires soonā¦I immediately said āGREAT, then you can waste these ones on a really awesome burnout!ā He kinda smirked and changed the subject. GOD DAMMIT HE BETTER DO SOME FUCKING HEATERS!
the front pass caliper was sticking a bit so heās gonna mess with it and once its fixed I get to drive it lol.
Dad swapped out the caliper during the week, and I got to take it for a spin yesterdayā¦it was pretty fun to drive, steering is a little sloppy and the brakes donāt have power assist but it was definately turning heads.
:tup:
Youāre making me pretty jealous. Mineās in pieces. It looks incredible, the paint is in good shape. Power assisted brakes? Ha, who needs 'em.
Good news and bad newsā¦ Iāll start with the bad. Dad snuck out and put brand new tires on it without telling me AND without doing a SIQQQQQ HEATERRRRRRR. pretty sad about this.
Good news, he scored a replacement rear valence for $90 shipped due to a minor blemishā¦
āwhy is it hanging up in the garageā you may find yourself askingā¦
we decided those huge rubber pads that stick out on the rear are ugly and Iām shaving them.
Made some paper templates, cut them out of 18g steel, banged them into shape, and welded them in
Skim coated with bondo for smoothing. I just came in from this, if I feel up to it after whipping up some dinner Iāll go back out and block sand it down.
after blocking/feathering:
primer:
I think it came out pretty decent. Iāll be spraying it in black primer-sealer when I have the hood ready so I can spray both at the same timeā¦
T.T.F.N.
I hate those rubber pads on the bumpers, nice work.
Awesome! Nice work.