2sixtynines
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Ouch! Had to do a little Frankenstein surgery on quarter panel. Also had to cut the rear valance out to straighten it up. Turned out really good.
My 1969 1/2 440 ‘cuda
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2sixtynines
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Inner fender wells and radiator core support are in place. Frame rail was repaired where the previous owner had hit a telephone pole and ripped the frame. I didn’t notice until years later that the passenger side inner fender well was a 1/4 inch farther forward. Fortunately everything was able to be lined up later.
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Gettin a few touch ups done on the inner fender wells. A few weeks before I took this picture this fella told me he had re-tapped a couple of nuts for me. I was busy talking to the owner about some things I wanted done and just nodded and thanked him. After they painted the inner fender wells I noticed to my horror that the nuts he was talking about were the ones used to hold the braces for the fenders on the 67’s. I totally forgot to tell them to cut them out and fill them in. STUPID.
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Inner fender wells painted, body work done time to take her home.
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Got the doors all painted up
340sFastback
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That car has come a long way. Gonna be so worth it when its done.
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K frame is all stripped down and painted with Epoxy paint.
After re-finishing the steering wheel spokes, did you treat them or coat them with something to preserve their finish?
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Fenders are all done.
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No, I just painted them
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Finished the hood up. Only got two runs in it. One was barely noticeable. Spotted the other one rather quickly but it wasn’t very noticeable from some angles of view.
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Trunk is finally done.
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Interior is all primed and painted.
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Got a bunch of chips in the paint trying to put the gauge assembly in. Had to do a lot of masking to touch it up.
340sFastback
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Great progress. Love the red.
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Thanks!
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Decided to paint the cowl area and door jambs as well as the trunk drainage area so when I get it painted all that will need painted is the outside areas. In the end it didn’t work out that way.
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Got the sound deadener in.
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Header panel is primed and painted on the inside.
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Got the wheels painted. Before painting the wheels I recall reading an article that said when trying to decide how the factory did something, think of two things, cost and assembly line. I was thinking at the time that it would be cheaper and more cost effective to paint one side of the wheel as opposed to doing both sides. I painted both sides black, assuming that Chrysler painted all there wheels black, don’t know where I got that from, and then painted the outside body color if that was what the customer wanted.
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Ran an ad in MCG magazine looking for an A-body 440 block. Didn’t expect I would get a response. Three months later I got a call from a fella in Iowa. He bought a 1965 Dodge Coronet in 1978 with an A-body 440 engine in it and drag raced it for 10 years before developing a bad piston. He pulled the motor and stuck it in his warehouse where it sat for 19 years before I purchased it. It took four months of talking back and forth and him wanting to check and make sure the block was ok for me to finally get it.
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