1970 Dart Swinger - father and son project

I have not been good at posting here, partly because as all project seem to do, this one is taking some time. Cold here in Minnesota, -20 right now so no work in the pole barn which doesn't have heat! However, I have a great neighbor who is ex body guy with heated, unused space I have arranged to use. Thought I would finish off the year by updating this project.

If you have followed this project you would have seen that I had previously fabricated some lower rear quarter pieces and even welded one into place, looking good at that point. Bad news, when we stripped the remainder of the quarter it had been bashed, bondo'd, drilled, and everything you don't want to see, and that was the good side. Mild depression followed by a sale at year one where I picked up a pair of skins that are now attached to the car.

I had a bad drivers door which I new needed to be replaced, picked one up here from a FABO guy :-) Stripped the passenger side door and found out that the quarter could have been worse and the door proved it. Back to FABO and another, different FABO guy came through for me, what a great place and good folks. Door hinges were garbage, busted pins and bent springs, FABO to the rescue! Down to the local metal supplier and purchased some 2"x3" tubing to fabricate some frame ties. Big investment in time on the wire wheel stripping everything we could touch, then coated it all with POR 15. we plan on sanding this and covering with primer and paint, but wanted to protect as much as possible.

Dragged the car to me neighbors after fabricating some pogo sticks for the front, since the car was originally a /6, 3 on the tree and we want a 340 4 speed we needed a V8 k frame and a floor hump. Got those from FABO as well and picked up a front disk brake hardware at the same place, different guy!