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Teal's right,...otherwise you're gonna mess up the Zen of the Universe...throwing out bad vibes everywhere you go...

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Good lawrd. That ain't right.

Ain't no sense making a van unless you're going to make an A-Team van.

Cept with an A-Team van you're sorta required to have a Mini-14.

No one should be required to have a Mini-14 and I say that as a Ruger slut.

Damn, wing windows, I sure miss them.

Looking good Dave, the excitement is building!

Those were FUGLY in the day and HAVE NOT improved with age!

Mopar butterscotch on a Charger.

This was parked at my son's soccer game last night. He passed me doing about 80 on the drive back to town.

nice color.

It looked really good at 80 mph!

Not to be a spoiler, but that's a Challenger.

Spoiler! And you never can get too close to the Cheese!

OK. I thought it said Charger, but maybe I didn't look closely enough. It was just for the Mopar color for Dave.

It ain't a pickup, so it ain't ........

Mopar guy here, so I just couldn't bite my lip.

BTW, a SRT8 392 cid Challenger has a top speed of just over 180 mph. They are not electronically speed limited.

Is that what is pictured ya think?

It had an "understated" exhaust rumble - sort of soft, but very low frequency.

It looks like one. It has the red Brembo brake calipers that all SRT8's do. I can't make out the badge on the front fender. Could be a Hemi R/T too. It is not the V6 'secretary' version. That I am sure of.

Well it wasn't the committed weekend that I wanted, but some work did get done on the car so that's better than nothing I guess.

I decided to use ordinary construction adhesive to "glue" my hood skin to my stamped hood frame in the spots where there was originally a seam sealer of sorts which sets the height of the hood skin in relation to the stamped frame on the underside.

To do this I decided to use a pair of saw horses as support bunks and a wheel/tire as a weight to offer some downward pressure on the stamped frame as the adhesive sets up.



Here's a shot of the new rear bumper with most of the hardware transferred over to it from the old bumper.



Here's my best worker running the 90 degree angle die grinder with sanding pads inside the engine bay.









The exhaust manifolds are off.

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I will cut that shaft out of the manifold and plug the 2 holes it went through as part of my manifold refurb.

I'm really glad I pulled the manifolds, I did have an exhaust leak that sounded like hell under the hood before and I was also getting a bit of a coolant smell from a minor coolant leak on one side that was burning on the exhaust manifold. I see that I was missing one of the special long reach manifold nuts on both manifolds. So I'll be ordering a fastener kit for these along with my gaskets.

Been watchin' Dave, but my normal connection speed (via aircard) is so slow that it prevents me opening threads that contain a lot of pic's, or videos. I'm benefitting from a much faster connection at a motel right now.

I'm votin' by fall.

Amazing how an image can trigger memories. I remember well those types of vans with the hideous fantasy/sci-fi/psychedelic/other mural scenes. How about the cornball, ridonkulous stickers. 'If this van's a rocking, a don't come a knockin'!'; 'You toucha da car, I break-a you face' type stuff. The 70s were bizarre, style and pop-culture wise.

Dang!
I forgot how LONG those cars are!

The door and front fender are longer than my Sonett!