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Ok, ok, I'm getting more questions than I expected.

It's a lynch road manufactured car, original color was T7 dark bronze metallic with a white vinyl top, tan and brown deluxe interior, Power steering, ... drum brakes on all 4, 383 high perf with factory air grabber hood, 4 speed trans, 3.23 suregrip rear... and that's about it.

oh, and this one is mine.. as in, for ME.

How cool is that?



It's getting new quarer skins, trunk floor, trunk floor extensions and a new drivers side rear wheel house.

I plan to put a new white vinyl top on it and go with a burnt orange metallic or copper metallic paint.

One of two cars I owned that I wish I'd had the sense to keep. The other was Gen I Firebird - red, with the 400 CID small block.

If I'd known then, what I know now - uffda.

Dare ya to keep bias-plied tires on it. >grin<

I can hear them vrrrr-ing and smell the smoke just thinking about that lol!

Maybe a nice set of goodyear polyglass?

Dave when i did my 69 dart i split the wheel wells on the seam and welded in a 4 inch piece of sheet metal widening the wheel wells to fit a bigger tire. when you opened the trunk it still looked stock.

Somebody asked me about the wheels, yeah I guess new wheels aren't in the budget right now and these are in decent shape. Too bad they are 14's but the damn tires are brand new. Put on just before I bought the car.

I'd maybe flip the white letters in but that's maybe all I'd do for any wheel/tire changes for now.

cop wheels or torque thrust

That sounds good but I think the B-body wells are pretty big. my tire borders to the east and west are basically the adjoining pinchweld lip where the quarter meets the outer wheel house and the other border is the leaf spring.

I can go 10x15 with.... 5.5" backspacing I think? and... (I'm winging it here but this will be close) 295/50 R15 tire?

It fills it, gives like 3/4" to 1/2" of clearance on fender lip side and leaf spring side.

"great minds..."

ya gotta put in frame connectors. wish i pics of the ones we made outta round tubing. we would run our nos and fuel lines through them.

I don't even know if you you can buy a glass-belted tire anymore. Mid-seventies, I used to buy a set of cheapies (were they 14"?) at Fleet Farm, throw 'em on for a weekend - and they'd be gone by the end of it.

Not claiming it was wise - but it sure was fun.

Oh, 'nother little known item, hydraulic lifters "float" at 'bout seven-thousand rpms (If I recall correctly). The engine starts sputterin', and loses power, 'til the lifters pump-up again at a more sane rpm. >grin<

you can also gain some clearance with the offset spring hangers. don't forget the super stock springs and pinion snubber.i would swap in torsion bars from a slant six car up front to help with weight transfer.

Mako, thinkin Coker tire still handles the originals.

Gunner

A 69 is ok, but a 68 is where its at...

You can thank me later.

That is neat info!

Thats funny Tom, hows a 70 Hemi Cuda rub ya?

Gunner

Man that sounds great. Wheels? How about period correct Cragers? Whatever you decide to do just keep us posted with lots of pictures...

My favorite year.

I had a 68 dodge charger with a 440, 375 horse, metallic blue, white roof, white interior 4 speed, 10 inch rear tires, Bitch would run. sure was fun. wish I still had her.

I'll try and update regularly. I want to get the car into town maybe saturday morning early while my muddy driveway is still frozen. Take it to the carwash and spray under the car really well and get it back home and into the garage while the spring mess is still frozen.

Then I'll start taking it apart and stripping the paint off, ripping the old vinyl top off, removing the glass etc.

kind of the same deadline as the mustang we did last spring. I started that one april 4th I think.

STX, yeah I need a good snubber and I'm considering the caltracbars. I'll have to learn about the springs and get a possitive ID on what I have now.

The car has a joe dirt set of traction bars on it now, old school square tube and snubber slappers.

Burnouts are... chattery, know what I mean?

They gotta go.