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Thanks for the encouragement and kind words. I really would like to get it finished before I am unable to drive.

Bump.....and grind

A reporter once asked OJ if he would ever marry again. He replied. "Yeah, I may take another stab at it." Something to think about: There is an expression about life imitating art. How about art predicting life. 1972 marks the year an R&B soul group, the O'Jays had a hit with Back Stabbers...

Well, we are at home. I took these photos at my Dad's place a few weeks ago. Today, I was going through boxes in the garage at my place in order to find just what I had in boxes. Then the name of the game was to put boxes in the house close to the where the contents will actually be used...

Wouldn't you know it!!!! My father passed away in August, my mother passed in 2007. Unlike most parental units, both of mine were "savers" and not "pitchers". This is especially true when it came to pictures. From the year 1974 and parental archives comes a decent photo of the car in...

The guy who could work on my car intelligently was let go by the shop. It was a bit scary for a while. I spent a bit of time with the shop's foreman and scheduler and a rookie mechanic to determine my next move. The biggest things that need correction are the master cylinder and the...

I'm sure he is kidding. I agree with the concept of using a two-barrel carb on a two-barrel manifold, likewise with a four barrel. You may want to check out the Weber progressive two-barrel. Or...you may want to skip the carb all together and go with fuel injection. There were a couple of...

We used to have an aircraft tug with a poly head 318 in it. Another company I had worked for had a diesel re-power job replacing a 354 CID gen I Hemi.

The interior trim code influences MSRP not the other way around. I had a pair of 66 Dart 2-door hardtops. One was a 270 (LH), the other was a GT (LP), The plain 66 Dart would have been an LL. The Dart upholstery could have been feature-less all vinyl or cloth and vinyl, and it had rubber...

Progress went slowly, but it did occur. Rear seat was re-upholstered. and I worked on fixing up an instrument cluster. Had to use a pro to clear up the speedometer. There is nothing in the chassis and body manual that spoke to me about where precisely...

RE: Panel 13 I remember playing around with the front cover in order to get the pumps discharge to work with the radiator I could get. Also had to take care of the harmonic balancer so timing could be set. I also recall that the change to the Sanden compressor entered into the decision...

RE: Panel 14 Sorry you can't see photos. I assure you they were all uploaded. I checked my source files. Most of the ones I used in the post were small files (ca < 25Kb). It sounds like a Joeychgo or Tech Admin question.

I played games with the front of the engine in order to be able to get the water outlet from the pump where I wanted it. It also allowed me to do without an idler on the A/C belts (the alternator provides tension adjustment).

I was all white knuckles when I HAD to finally put the windshield & gasket into the car. The guy who did the surgery on the roof broke the windshield I had. He discounted his work to account for it, but he didn't try again. So there I was about ten years later putting a Chinese windshield...

Here it is fresh off of the trailer. Over the next eight years work slowed to a crawl.

Then it was off to the paint shop. Before roof surgery : After roof surgery before paint: It looks like Dodge Division of Chrysler Motors Basin Street Blue. It is actually the 72 rendition of Ford Motor Company's paint code J, Grabber Blue. Complemented with a set of white...

I used the opportunity of no engine in the car to paint the engine bay and trunk. My nose hair was blue for a while. One of the things I wanted to accomplish was to upgrade the brakes from drums in the front to a single piston disk brakes. Then, I also needed to change the k-frame to allow...

Not to worry, though. The block came from a 1968 Coronet so all of the new pistons would have the highest deck of any made for the 318. I ran a caustic soda solution through the block. I oiled and honed the bores. Good news (finally), the honing got the bores cleaned. No need to re-bore the...

The engine was not without problems. There was a burned ring on the number 4 cylinder. Add to that a number 2 cylinder without valve reliefs and a number 8 cylinder that had a valve bounced off of it.

I forgot. In between I located the column cancer, I found an engine. The transmission I had kept in storage for five years.

There was some body work that need to happen.

Roof cancer was found in the A-columns, too. The passenger side door was off of a Dart Swinger. I had missed that one, too I was beginning to doubt if I could do this. I found another door off of a Duster. (thank you mother Mopar). I checked with my painter. He cut into the A-column...

Found and bought on the basis of these photos on ebay. I spoke with owner about potential rust issues. I checked floor boards and found some pin wholes. I checked roof out. Other than some orange patina, it looked fine. I became the new owner and loaded the car on a towing dolly. I hit a...

I started this in a garage file, it got too wordy. This is the 4th Dart I have restored, the second where I am not trying for a 100% restoration. What I am trying to do is re-create a car I shared with two of my siblings while I was in college. It's more like in the re-creation process, I am...

Wait til you get the glass and door handles back on it. It's gonna be great.

Need some real shuffling.

Darn right,too. If I couldn't trailer it behind the Ram, I'd park the truck and drive the Demon out.

I need to do a follow-up here. When I put the front end together, I used the cheapest poly set I could find. These were the sort where all of the existing shells had to be re-used. Later I was able to get the front end set for the max positive caster I could get out of it. What I have less...

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