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The Dart tis back in the garage! So now begins the daunting task of putting it back together... My plan is to replace with new stuff, all the items that are hard to reach and the other stuff over time. I will start on the under body clean up and rebuild the front suspension. then on to the...

Change in plans, the car is now blue... Should be the original B5 blue, but it looks lighter than I thought it would. Basically the guy painting it is new and confessed he painted the black 3 times... Had troubles after I go the last pics and was throwing in the towel due to time and...

It is a base and clear coat, but I am not sure on the specifics, I pretty much trusted them in what to do sin ceI do not know myself. Yes, to the tail stripe. I am leaning towards a flat black stripe, but may go with white. Good luck with your resto! I should have waited to some extent to...

Progress... Putting the final touches on the paint job. Not a show quality paint jpb, but it is a lot better then I expected for the price. Anyone need paint work done in the Houston area, I would recommend these guys. They are hoping to finish next weekend, so I get to start putting her back...

Some more progress is being made... They shouold be wrapping up the paint in the next two weeks or so. the guy working on it got a full time job, so progress slowed. Glad he got a job and I am in no hurry. They did an awesome job on the body work and found far more damage to the sheet metal...

The Dart was sent out for Body work and paint. Will post pics of progress as I get them. I would like to do the work myself, but i just do not have the time or the talent... I am going to paint it black... I struggled with the decision of going with the original color or black. Decided on...

It has been quite awhile since I posted on my Darts Progress, got side tracked by life... A daughter, now almost 1 year old and reloacted to Houston for work. Anyway, here are some pics of the little process on the tear down and the last pic is it loaded and ready to hit the highway. Found a...

Yeah, the lack of rust is pretty exciting. My 71 had some serious rust in a few spots and I thought it was a pretty good start. This car is going to make the body work very easy for a beginner...

I also took off the splash gaurds and there was a wee bit of surface rust but it will wire brush off. Some of it came off just by brushing it with my hand... I am anxious to get some work done this summer, but need to wait until finals are over. I work full time and go to school part time...

and lastly, shots of the front tear down. I also got a lot of the paint down to bear metal on the driver side and no rust or bondo showed up. there are dings and dents that will require some filler though. And the front passenger fender is from antoher car as you can see by the colors...

ooops. here are the floor pics.

solid floors. The paint was bubbled up due a trainy leak seeping up through some wholes (nails wholes). But it cam right off and any rust was a very minor surface rust and came right up.

interior tear down... The last owner painted the interior red. It was spray bomb and had many chunks in it. If you look closely you can see the nails in the 4-speed hump

the seats redone. I used legendary seat covers.

here was the interior when I got it...

That last pic was from a thread on here where I was looking for some trim pieces... I didn't notice the red text when I posted it... oh well. Also, the build may slow a bit since i will be a Dad this August. But I already did a bunch of work to it.

Ok, so I have gotten much enjoyment over the two years of reading poeples restorations threads so I decided to share mine. This is my 3rd Dart that I had for about a year now. My first car was a 75 custom that I feel in love with in 1990. I bought my 69 last year and it was modified...

Ok this made me laugh... Looks good! (the car not the drool)

wow, the giveaway is on my b-day... Guess I better Buy a ticket.

Car looks Great! I have been wathicng this thread and I am anxious to see the end results! My dart is well under way and will be black as well. (Although it may not see paint until later next year.)

Your using chemical stripper on the undercoating? What kind and where to you get it? I am using a heat gun and scrapper... Time consuming but ir works. If the chemicals work pretty quickly I will try it out. Of course I am on hold until warmer weather for now.

I have a '69 340 Dart and I know we are not the only ones on this site owning one. I can see why your so proud, they are cool. Although I do still love the '70 and '71. The grill on the '72 isn't near as cool. But like the others said... Pics please.