TomBo

Forgot To Mention, Paint Is Scheduled For This Saturday & You Know Me Pix Will Follow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now thats funny I don't care who you are LOL..... Thanks thouggh Darrell mucho appreciated. I actually just bought a hood today thats been in storage for around 30 yrs!!!!! scared to death coming home people beeping & so on but I had not a care in the world but the safe delivery to my bodyman!

Car is now in "High Build" primer & all that is left is: Drill the holes for the check moldings (vinyl top trim) Finish the hood I have or buy teh new one I am going to look at tomm. Primer sealer sand that PAINT! Here is the car b4 all the above

Excellent bud, I am happy to see that people are looking & checkin out te progress. I didnt start out to make an authentic replice or a GA specific car or Cally specific car I just wanted a General & as time goes on & I learned more I decided to do more to it than I had 1st started out with in mind. Thanx for the reply & I will keep the info & pix coming.

Thanks Dukefan its always good to hear comments. I will as always take tonsa pix & post away as soon as I get home with them.!

Roger funny you asked that because its been almost that long. I know for a fact by dated pix that the car was poicked up by the bodyguy a year ago this past Feb. JUST WENT BACK & LOOKED. Irionically it was Feb, 17 2006 when I brought the car to my house from mom's yard. 1yr later it was picked up for bodywork & now its been another yr & a month BUT I am by no means in a rush. The deal with that is: I had a 70 coronet that I turned into a clone Bee & sold by the same bodyguy when he was in business with another guy, they split & my guy went on his own at home & wanting to make a name 4 himself I bartered & said "do you know how many people are going to stop & ask where, when, by who, how much?" (wont answer that last one though, LOL) & we agreed on a price & he had other smaller jobs pop in and out the entire time my car was there and outa the weather & I didnt care because it was safe. Here is the b4 & after of the 70 coronet turned into a clone Bee he did 4 me.

Cool to see people are looking I enjoy the comments. Here are some more updates. Bodyman states may be painted in a week or 2.

oh well IM GONE!

HELLO!---- HELLO! I hear an echo LOL. sure is slow here, no?

Worked on the car again today. Drivers side floor is partially cut out & almost ready for the new one. Had to stop & do other things. Trunk floor & extensions are in & welded & the rear end caps are tied in to the valance panel also. The trunk inside & underneath are Por-15'ed (anti rust inhibitor). Here are some shos of todays work:

The story with this 69 Charger..Hmmm never been asked that b4. Well I have ben a Mopar guy for many many moons. Since my mother gave me a 69 coronet in 1981. Thats a whole different story lol, anyway I was hooked on mopars from that day on. I have had about 30 mopars in my lifetime. This Charger, being in the hobby I have seen prices go crazy whether it was Barrett Jackson or E-bay or whatever. Gone are the days of 200.00 to 600.00 Chargers and yes they were plentiful enough that I pased on a few, oh to go back! I heard a friend of mine in the hobby say "Get the car (mopar) you want now because in the next 5 yrs you wont be able to fford the one you want". I heard it but didnt believe it. He was right but wrong. Wrong because it didnt happen in 5 yrs but right because it happened in 10 & man did it happen. So when I heard him say that I already had my 69 coronet & a 70 R/T charger & a 68 Charger. I didnt need another one but when someone came & said theres a Charger in a town nearby that just popped up out of a garage I had to go see it & whe n i asked if he'd sell he said yes & the price was 1500.00. This was 1999 or 98 and I got it home & parked it til I started this project Lee last Year.

The areas not coated with Por-15 will soon be after the welding is done. Needs to be a clean surface for that. I will also be coating the outside & inside trunk floor & the trunk extensions & the outside frame rails.

LOL I will keep postin its fun for me to do the work & snap the shot & then look back on the pix witha cold one & think of all the other things I have to do to the car. ok the floor....actually the cars floor is great except for the drivers foot area. That area has a new piece of floor pur chased & ready to go in, in that area. As for the framerails, they are mostly surface rust which in NJ is common. There is NO structrual damage or concerns there. I have also this past weekend Por-15'ed all the areas I coukld until we put i n the trunk floors 7 the drivers floor metal. This stuff is awesome. Cleans it up & is a excellent rust inhibitor. Here are some shots of what I talked about above, Floor b4 Floor after Por-15--->Note the drivers area that will be replaced: Heres a better shot of that area soon to b replaced:

no response? no more pix. LOL

stil llooking for those pics? I may have some to help out

I was away on vaca in sunny Florida & my wife & son (3yrs old) called me in to make the eggs and I took one look at the colors & saw that orange & was like DING! and the rest is history, LOL. . .

OK guys & gals have not posted in quite sometime. Here is a updated photo opt:

Happy Easter to all!