The Great White Brick - '69 Valiant

They use lots of salt out east eh? Here too, but I think they use more out there. I think this type of operation on a car is only for those that want a challenge and some experience. That's why I bought my '69 Valiant. The easier softer way would have been to buy a cream puff 4-door Valiant and turn it into a 2-door with parts from this car, but there were no 4-doors around and we started. Of course, as luck would have it, I was out for supper last night with the local Mopar crowd and a guy has a cream puff 4-door '69 Valiant..........too late now though!

Your car looks about the same as what we've got here, I think it's doable. But again, you have to love doing it and enjoy the work or forget it and buy a California car. I think you might actually have more floor pan than what we had...we sure didn't have much! Measure everything! Measure and mark where the crossmember goes before you cut it out (but the new frame will dictate, you'll see what I mean). Like I said before, I think I'd try to rebuild your rockers a little before doing anything, then when they're pretty solid put jack stands under the front edge and drill out the front frame. We had a hard time manuevering the new front frame into place, but we got it. I was afraid the jack stands would be in the way, but they weren't. You definitely need two guys to get the new frame in.