'Bout Time!!
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So, I've been working on my car for a while and I keep meaning to start a thread on my progress But I have been so busy working on it I havent had time to do it. So I will try and catch up with my work a little at a time. You should know, this is my second classic Mopar, my first was a 70 Belvedere foor door, long gone (also a sad story I will tell another time), I have had a 93 Dakota, loved that truck(another bummer of a story) and my wife drives a Pacifica. Back to the Duster, I picked it up in March of this year off craigslist. A previous owner swapped the front small bolt drums for an unknown large bolt disc setup. They also swapped in some buckets and had the seats recovered and a headliner. The car was in a horse barn with flat tires and the guy couldnt get it started. The Floors looked good from inside and the trunk had some rust issues. So i low ball him a bit and he takes it.
I get the car home and I had it running in 30 minutes, amazing what some fresh gas will do. Well this is also my first real project and I have no idea where to start so I do the worst thing possible and do nothing for four months except pick up a few parts here and there, including a painless wiring harness, a spare tire patch piece for the trunk(whatever its called), a complete 8 1/4" rear, dash pad, a 360 car oil pan, and a radiator.
I finally get going on removing the old wiring, it was pretty ratty, and one thing leads to another, I notice the firewall is covered in surface rust. so i decide to remove the dash,it was tack welded in to the a pillars and bolted by the kick panel all the bolts at the windshield were gone. I start wire brushing the rust away and decide i would go ahead and do the floors. Thats when i start hitting patches of bondo. Someone had put masking tap under the floor and then bondoed over the rust spots. There wasnt a terrible amount just a few holes here and there. I lucked out with my nieghbor he has a really nice pro grade wire welder and he started teaching me how to weld. I will post some pictures tomorrow or the next day and I will pick this up then. Thanks for reading!
I get the car home and I had it running in 30 minutes, amazing what some fresh gas will do. Well this is also my first real project and I have no idea where to start so I do the worst thing possible and do nothing for four months except pick up a few parts here and there, including a painless wiring harness, a spare tire patch piece for the trunk(whatever its called), a complete 8 1/4" rear, dash pad, a 360 car oil pan, and a radiator.
I finally get going on removing the old wiring, it was pretty ratty, and one thing leads to another, I notice the firewall is covered in surface rust. so i decide to remove the dash,it was tack welded in to the a pillars and bolted by the kick panel all the bolts at the windshield were gone. I start wire brushing the rust away and decide i would go ahead and do the floors. Thats when i start hitting patches of bondo. Someone had put masking tap under the floor and then bondoed over the rust spots. There wasnt a terrible amount just a few holes here and there. I lucked out with my nieghbor he has a really nice pro grade wire welder and he started teaching me how to weld. I will post some pictures tomorrow or the next day and I will pick this up then. Thanks for reading!
