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Very cool.

440 or did you punch/stroke it?

Nice Plum Crazy car. I think the new ones in that color are called Statutory Grape.

It's funny how the wild children of the mopar family (plymouth, dodge) had different names for the very same colors.

Sublime/Lime light
Green go/Sassy Grass
Go Mango/Vitamin C
Top banana/lemon twist

All the same colors with different names, there are many more.

My mother's 69 was the orange. Omaha orange and called something else too.
You should have seen the dealer try and match the driver's door!
I think it ended up being shot three times!

Ya gotta love the vinyl tops!

I scrounged parts here and there. It was a wrecked heap in 1989 when I got it. It had been crunched in the front end and had a mason jar for a gas tank, lol. (just so dude could prove to me the 318 would run)
Paid a $125 for the car on that day.

Anyway, there weren't no Internet when I started repairing the car. Just had to acquire parts by word of mouth or riding around and knocking on doors asking about junked Mopars in folks' backyards.

So, the 440 magnum hood is not correct. I got that in a parts swap with another guy that want some of my Coronet500 stuff.

As the car sits now, that is a 383 HP short block from a 69 Fury in there, with 906 heads I had assembled by another Mopar buddy that I dd some other trading on.

Not a show piece, no numbers match. Just a toy saved from the crushers.

Looks good, and 383s are no slugs, either.

Very cool

To me the 383 has a coolness factor that overshadows the 440.

I wouldn't have guessed a 383 swap, I think that's very cool.


727 or are you pulling gears with a lever?

727 torque flight

With original Slap Stick shifter.

Although that shifter is getting some age on it. I have been perusing thru the Summit catalog looking for an upgrade.

I looked hard for a 4speed. I did acquire a big block bell housing on the assumption that another gear geek was going to sell me a 4speed he had behind a 340Demon. But he got "clingy" with his tranny and backed out.

I did have another bud give me a Sure Grip with a Richmond set of 4:10 gears. It's under the work bench mothballed. I'm currently rolling a set of 3:55 ring/pinion gears I snatched outta Dodge "potato chip" van.

Also have a Dana 60 waiting for back up if I ever need it.

Parts hoarding is addictive.

I pulled the seat and peeled the front half of the carpet back.



Someone has undercoated the hell out of the top side of the floor.

I had to scrape like hell to expose some kind of bad news.

I need to cut out and make a little patch for the passenger side.



And I need to order a front pan for the drivers side and replace this area.

AH but when you are done it will be better than new Dave!

Shoot man. After what you did to that hot rod, that's nuttin'.

its turning into a B.O.A.T. car... ROR!

looking forward to more progress pics though. thanks for taking the time to post them Dave.

Yeah this is really no problem. I'm really ok with it because I was on the fence on a couple of fender patches and rocker patches too.

I was considering making my own patches for a rocker that's swiss cheesed and the 2 lower rear halves of the front fenders.

They form repair pieces for these areas, and if I'm ordering a floor pan I'll go ahead and order the fender patches and a rocker repair patch and save myself a bunch of fab time.

A little inspiration.

Well I took care of some misc patching that needed to be done today. No glory but the little jobs need to get done too.

My quarter skins didn't reach the bottom inside corner of the door jams so I has to make patches for both sides and weld in, very small patches.

Still though, better than spanning a hole with a bunch of filler.










I did both sides like this then turned attention to the rear of the quarter skins where the skins don't reach the tail pan.





Again, very small puzzle pieces but the little things gotta get done too.

Nice job man!

Excited to see pics when shes all painted up!

nice!

I got some company out in the shop today which halted the work, otherwise I would have had more for you guys.

But I wouldn't want to be without the company of a good friend stopping by so I wouldn't change the day if I could.

These were pasky little tasks that needed to be done.

Always better to use metal than plastic. You do dang fine work Dave.