Doug's '68 Dart

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So your replacing the entire driver and passenger pans. No problem there just sitting here.
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Making some progress. Dash work specifically. Also received and working on installing my rear crossmember (RMS Street Lynx). Also just received my freshly rebuilt 489 sure grip unit (3.91).

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Grill restoration underway. Shout out to Herb’s for the grill argent and Transtar for the black matte. Perfect matches to my naked eye.

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Just like Christmas Douglas!

As was suggested by another member on here to me.. assemble everything in the RMS equipment before putting it on the car to ensure everything is there. I got the wrong bushings for the rack. A phonecall to RMS and Bill shipped the correct ones immediatly.
 
AAndrews said:
Just like Christmas Douglas!

As was suggested by another member on here to me.. assemble everything in the RMS equipment before putting it on the car to ensure everything is there. I got the wrong bushings for the rack. A phonecall to RMS and Bill shipped the correct ones immediatly.
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Did just what you said. Missing front lower shock bolts, rear upper shock bolts, the 2 shock tower backing plates, and the column bushing for shortening the steering column. I emailed Bill.
 
Douglas Acebal said:
Did just what you said. Missing front lower shock bolts, rear upper shock bolts, the 2 shock tower backing plates, and the column bushing for shortening the steering column. I emailed Bill.
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I think they replaced the shock tower back plates with four large washers. I couldn’t figure out what they were at first. So I believe I can scratch one item off the missing list.
 
Picked these up from migsBIG…. After a lot of elbow grease. Before & after.

I will never attempt to strip baked on wrinkle finish ever again.

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Nice work. I seem to recall a chemical stripper I used on stuff like that if it was durable (it's been a decade and a half since I did that work, so my memory may be skewed.) Otherwise, I just sand blasted it off.
 
mpgmike said:
Nice work. I seem to recall a chemical stripper I used on stuff like that if it was durable (it's been a decade and a half since I did that work, so my memory may be skewed.) Otherwise, I just sand blasted it off.
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My cheapie HF blast cabinet didn’t dent this stuff. I went through three cans of stripper.
 
I remember refinishing a set of Shelby Daytona wheels that a friend had sent to one of his other friends. His friend was blasting huge road construction equipment, using coarse aggregate and high pressures. The friend only charge $10 to blast 4 wheels! When I got them, they were pocked; all detail was distorted.

I got an idea and powder coated them. I looked at the results grabbed another wheel and tried a different method. I seem to remember it was at least my 3rd attempt that made these "destroyed" wheels look good. Oh, and by the way, each attempt that didn't work had to be sand blasted back off. He sold them to another Club member that won 1st prize at Chryslers @ Carlisle in the FWD division.

There's always a way!

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