Another Mopar Off My Bucket List - Barracuda Fastback
I'm still trickling work into the funnycar. The Lexan windshield fit fairly well so I went ahead and made the two (partial) side windows. With those 3 installed the roof no longer wants to sag where the cracks are in the fiberglass.
I turned my attention to the left side of the body. It was missing the 1" aluminum angle and 4" tall side plate that were meant to stiffen the bottom body line. I re-fabbed the pieces and affixed them with clecos.
Next I wanted to make the rear window but one of the previous owners had notched the top middle of the opening and glassed in a scoop that faced backwards. I'm certain it was to allow air to vent through the body. I didn't care for the look of it and decided to get rid of it. The easy part of the job is cutting it out. I'll still have to fabricate a patch for it and piece it in when I start fiber-glassing the rest of the roof repairs.
The annual big Mopar show is coming up on Saturday. I've debated whether or not to take the funny down to it and enter it in the 'project cars' class or possibly just putting a FOR SALE sign on it and seeing if I could recoup what cash I've got in it. I'd really like to keep it because it's another one of the cars I've had on my bucket list but I'd all but given up on ever putting it back together after it was vandalized.
When I dug back into this project it was for two reasons.
#1) I'd have a blast building it.
#2) If I didn't start doing some of the repair work, - I'd never stand a chance of getting any money back out of it and it would just waste away.
I haven't made up my mind yet what I'm going to do.
I'm still trickling work into the funnycar. The Lexan windshield fit fairly well so I went ahead and made the two (partial) side windows. With those 3 installed the roof no longer wants to sag where the cracks are in the fiberglass.
I turned my attention to the left side of the body. It was missing the 1" aluminum angle and 4" tall side plate that were meant to stiffen the bottom body line. I re-fabbed the pieces and affixed them with clecos.
Next I wanted to make the rear window but one of the previous owners had notched the top middle of the opening and glassed in a scoop that faced backwards. I'm certain it was to allow air to vent through the body. I didn't care for the look of it and decided to get rid of it. The easy part of the job is cutting it out. I'll still have to fabricate a patch for it and piece it in when I start fiber-glassing the rest of the roof repairs.
The annual big Mopar show is coming up on Saturday. I've debated whether or not to take the funny down to it and enter it in the 'project cars' class or possibly just putting a FOR SALE sign on it and seeing if I could recoup what cash I've got in it. I'd really like to keep it because it's another one of the cars I've had on my bucket list but I'd all but given up on ever putting it back together after it was vandalized.
When I dug back into this project it was for two reasons.
#1) I'd have a blast building it.
#2) If I didn't start doing some of the repair work, - I'd never stand a chance of getting any money back out of it and it would just waste away.
I haven't made up my mind yet what I'm going to do.