Year 1 - 2007 - Bringing her home and tearing her down.
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Pick up day. This poor SSP was ridden hard on the reservation and put up wet!
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Safely home and being stuffed in the garage. How to you unload a car with no brakes - very carefully!
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Broken glass and crud everywhere. Oooohh, is that a custom headliner?
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Years of sun damage and mice have had their way with the upholstery.
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Got a very warm day in March, so I put the girls to work.
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There, doesn't look so bad after a good bath.
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Let the disassembly begin! Going to have to find a valance.
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Breaking it down further.
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2007 Major Acquisitions: Found some grill bezels for the plastic surgery up front.
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Scored a nice rally dash and a sweet music master AM radio just before Christmas.
Year 2 - 2008 - Tear down continues.
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Firewall area completely torn down.
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Interior is completely gutted.
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Car is nearly stripped down. I know - I am blocking the view - just wanted to put a face with the project.
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Suspension is off and its down to the shell. Now the hard part - body work.
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2008 Major Acquisitions: New gas tank and motor mounts.
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Sweet set of police wheels with the dog dish caps.
Year 3 - 2009 - Initial body work begins.
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Blasted and primed the engine bay area. Boy that sand gets everywhere!
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Close up of the engine bay.
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Got a good coating of Eastwood Rust Encapsulator on it.
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Now the fun begins. Got lucky - driver's floor pan is the only floor area that needed replaced. Ready for new metal now. Yep - the rocker and lower hinge area need replaced also. Just need to save up for that welder!
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2009 Major Acquisitions: Found a junkyard 72 Satty that had solid lower rear quarters!
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Found a very workable front valance on Craigslist.
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One of my Mopar buds ordered this pan, then decided to do a full floor. So I got it cheap. Also learned the 71-72 Charger drip rail mouldings are not compatible.
Year 4 - 2010 - A pretty productive year.
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Floor pan cut and ready to weld.
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Front suspension disassembled and ready for clean-up. Bye-bye front drums.
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Rear springs disassembled and wire wheeled. Ready for paint.
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Wheeling the carcass out for some blasting on the underside. Firewall has been Encapsulated.
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Underside blasted and ready for paint.
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Underside coated in Eastwood Encapsulator.
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Getting pretty stoked at the progress. Entire underside is completed except for driver's pan.
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Lower door hinge area ready for welding.
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Driver's rear lower quarter ready.
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Passenger's rear lower quarter ready. Now, where is that damn welder?
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2010 Major Acquisitions: Dash pad from my 1973 Sebring parts car is nearly flawless.
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Scored a 71 setup for the front disc conversion.
Year 5 - 2011 - More blasting and painting.
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Without a welder to keep me busy, its time to start blasting.
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K-member and suspension parts getting cleaned up.
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More suspension related parts ready for paint.
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Let the black semi-gloss flow. Not too worried about correct component colors with this project.
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More semi-gloss going on.
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Excited to see some parts in a finished state - GY8!
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2011 Major Acquisitions: Picked up a fender really cheap. The area behind the wheel is toast. I am going to combine this one with my existing fender to make one good fender. Now where is that damn welder?
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There it is! My patience paid off - Miller had a $75 manufacturer's rebate going on during the Fall.
Year 6 - 2012 - Let the welding begin.
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Hood hinge front mounting area needed replaced. Tacked in for now.
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Drivers rocker was dented up pretty good. I was able to extract a straight one off a 1971 Charger shell.
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Measure twice - cut once, right?
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New rocker and floor pan in place.
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Lower hinge area in place.
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Having no welding experience, I am pretty happy with how things are going. The Millermatic welder has lived up to all the reviews on how easy it is to use. I would recommend this hobby welder to anyone.
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2012 Major Acquisition: Snagged some fairly fresh 302 swirl-port heads. Should make my economy 318 grunt a little more.
Year 7 - 2013 - Patching and welding continues.
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Lower hinge area welded up - just needs a little grinding and clean up.
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Some patching required on the firewall and the forward hood hinge mounting area.
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Patching and welding progress. Welding is a little ugly - need more practice.
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Had some swiss cheese in the trunk, so I hacked it out.
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Welded in trunk patch, just needs a little more cleaning up.
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Looks good from the bottom. Just some clean up and primer.
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2013 Major Acquisition: Scored a bunch of new goodies and super nice upper door panels from the parts car I bought last March.
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2013 Major Acquisition: Scored a really nice set of buckets and complete back seat. I will have to die them T7 brown to match my interior.
Year 8 - 2014 - Finishing off engine bay body work.
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Patch above the driver's shock tower.
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Driver's side forward hinge area patch.
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Firewall patch.
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Had to fab some new inner fender anchors for the forward hood hinge bolt. Not perfect - but will function nicely.
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Ready for some filler.
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Working the filler.
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Filler nearly finished.
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Front end of car finally ready for paint.
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Oh yeah baby! GY8.
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Ready to start getting the front suspension back on this ride.
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Big day! Parts are going back on the car - K frame in place.
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Suspension parts needing to be prepped and put on.
Plans for the rest of 2014 and early 2015 - Looking to get the suspension back under my ride so I can get it down to our winter car show in late February and place it in the "In Progress" category.