72 duster Build progress

Well, this damn Michigan weather goes from 80 degrees one day to 30 degrees the next lol and all this hot and cold temp changes and rain landed me with a cold.

BUT I have still managed to sneak out to the garage for a bit here and there (with the wifes permission and a thermos full of hot coffee to keep me warm lol) and I wanted to share some pictures so you guys and gals can see I have still been doing a little bit.

I picked up a new still in the package windshield gasket from a member for about $60.00 shipped which worked out great being that EVERYONE had them on back order.

also picked up a mopar performance air cleaner with filter from a member for $35.00 shipped and I picked up a set mopar performance "polished" valve covers from a member that I traded a carburetor I had laying around for.

SO that means that the Holley (M/T) style valve covers I currently have will be up for sale soon if anyone is interested and also the brand new edelbrock chrome air cleaner and filter will be up for sale aswell.

So this is a picture of how it started out.....just a regular old wrinkle black MP air cleaner


Here it is after I stripped all the wrinkle coating off


Here is is after alot of hand polishing!


Here it is after masking,laying down some hemi orange,and sanding the raised section back down to an aluminum finish.....then clear coating it to seal everything


TADA.....brand new custom air cleaner




This is what I had to start with for the valve covers.....they were factory polished but had not been taken care of and were starting to oxidize


Here is after a good hand polishing


and another


these will be getting the same orange treatment to match the air cleaner I just have not got that far yet but I figured I would share the progress as of where it stands.

sorry the pictures are not the best, I took them with my phone. ENJOY!