71 duster resto'mod "driver" project...
thanx V'Rebel, and Oneof' it's definitely been a great bonding experience for us all over the years...
I hear that DarTT, and thanx! Interestingly... a day after I made that post, the challenger changed hands once again within the family as my oldest son just out of the blue gifted it to his youngest brother, so it seems it's destiny will eventually be it's original engine after all.... but likely in the form of a fuel injected 408 stroker, woot!!
Hey Divenut, thanx.... but, I can't truely lay claim to tha axe... that belongs to my middle son (and he interjects that it's a 3/4 scale something or other lol)...he's got a few different axes kick'n around, and sometimes he'll even randomly saranade me and random dates with a heavy metal ensamble, so I definitely reap the rock star perks ha ha!!....ooops, almost forgot to add that I got the seat covers from year one when they had a 30% discount going... they did fit quite well, definitely happy with how they turned out
thanx 340_dart', the good thing was..... in the end, I beat this years snow fall, and actually wound up getting a few good weeks on the road this year :D
a side note for tangent sake... my middle son has a 70 340 4spd duster project car that came with it's original 340 block, so I traded him a set of 340 six pack heads I aquired for his 340 block..... so ultimately I'm thinking I'm gonna build some kinda 340 stroker out of it so I can give my youngest back his engine when his project is ready for it
any way, enough of my babbling and onto some more pics
...at the same time I was frantically building the engine...pulled out the k frame etc. and went to work on all of it
started working on cleaning up the wheel wells and entire underneath of the car floor pans etc...didn't get too many pics of that stuff, but heres what I have
she cut me.....
......so I cut her back lol
...actually, when I took out the window as I figured I'd remove it before it went back in for the final paint job, and replace it with a new one once it was back.... I found that since they media blasted much of the car, the media penetrated deep between the window seal and the body, and the paint didn't penetrate as deep, so there was paint....then bare metal.... then some very minor rust spots coming from the trim screw sections... so had I not found this and simply sent the car back with the windows in... being caught in the rain once would have led to those ugly rust bubbles you often see bubbling out from underneath on an other wise mint looking car... so I cleaned all that up :D
during all this, I was also building the transmission at work on off hrs (lunch etc.), and it was finally ready to go
k frame and more etc. went in..
and we gave the engine a few more coats of paint
....if I recall correctly, time wise, this would likely have taken us to aproximately late may/early june of 2011 state of things
thanx V'Rebel, and Oneof' it's definitely been a great bonding experience for us all over the years...
I hear that DarTT, and thanx! Interestingly... a day after I made that post, the challenger changed hands once again within the family as my oldest son just out of the blue gifted it to his youngest brother, so it seems it's destiny will eventually be it's original engine after all.... but likely in the form of a fuel injected 408 stroker, woot!!
Hey Divenut, thanx.... but, I can't truely lay claim to tha axe... that belongs to my middle son (and he interjects that it's a 3/4 scale something or other lol)...he's got a few different axes kick'n around, and sometimes he'll even randomly saranade me and random dates with a heavy metal ensamble, so I definitely reap the rock star perks ha ha!!....ooops, almost forgot to add that I got the seat covers from year one when they had a 30% discount going... they did fit quite well, definitely happy with how they turned out
thanx 340_dart', the good thing was..... in the end, I beat this years snow fall, and actually wound up getting a few good weeks on the road this year :D
a side note for tangent sake... my middle son has a 70 340 4spd duster project car that came with it's original 340 block, so I traded him a set of 340 six pack heads I aquired for his 340 block..... so ultimately I'm thinking I'm gonna build some kinda 340 stroker out of it so I can give my youngest back his engine when his project is ready for it
any way, enough of my babbling and onto some more pics
...at the same time I was frantically building the engine...pulled out the k frame etc. and went to work on all of it
started working on cleaning up the wheel wells and entire underneath of the car floor pans etc...didn't get too many pics of that stuff, but heres what I have
she cut me.....
......so I cut her back lol
...actually, when I took out the window as I figured I'd remove it before it went back in for the final paint job, and replace it with a new one once it was back.... I found that since they media blasted much of the car, the media penetrated deep between the window seal and the body, and the paint didn't penetrate as deep, so there was paint....then bare metal.... then some very minor rust spots coming from the trim screw sections... so had I not found this and simply sent the car back with the windows in... being caught in the rain once would have led to those ugly rust bubbles you often see bubbling out from underneath on an other wise mint looking car... so I cleaned all that up :D
during all this, I was also building the transmission at work on off hrs (lunch etc.), and it was finally ready to go
k frame and more etc. went in..
and we gave the engine a few more coats of paint
....if I recall correctly, time wise, this would likely have taken us to aproximately late may/early june of 2011 state of things