Donny's 1970 300

Not yet, it's almost all done, got a few parts left over! Got to make sure I didn't forget to put something together, the instructions SUCKED ***!
 
Well, ASAP is Dec 2011, haha! I started it up last night, fired right up, hardly any cranking required -- and it's been sitting since March too! Still got LOTS to dial in on this car, if I had a guy working for me, he could do the media blasting while I do the other work like mess with the 300!
 
Life. Man, things get away from you when you're busy on B Bodies, and Mustangs, and other people's cars' and their projects. I'm not bitching, nope, not at all! Thus saying all this, my 300 has been neglected TOO long. Well, I'm headed out of town for a week, and, have a space in my two bays (got 5 cars in 2 bays now, and room for one more) so in came the 300. Get this, it's been sitting for 3 months, I pulled the 6 month old AutoZone battery last night, put it on the trickle charger overnight, today, came in, put a squirt of gas in the 4bbl carb, got in, cranked it for about 1/2 a second and it fired right up! The HP 440 just purred along perfectly, let it warm up a bit, put it in gear on the factory option console shifter, the 727 (that's built up) gave a deliberate nod to the car that its in gear, spun it up a bit -- got the Dexron up to speed in the torque converter and it made some deliberate moves for sure!

I made a video, and, will post it here later, note to you all, and self, this year this car WILL be legal, plated, operational for the road, and the A/C will be working too; the factory A/C converted over to R-134 by October 1.
 
Hey Donny, good to have you stop by, look forward to the video and to seeing more of you and your 300.
 
My Imp may well be my favorite Donny. Took it for a spin today in fact, it was a nice day in Detroit today.
 
My goodness, time FLY'S! I found some time and took advantage and did some long-neglected work! I think it's been at least 6 months since I last fired up the car, its been sitting! Well, I went out, put a little gas in the carb, it fired right up! Put in in reverse, backed it out of the weeds that had grown up underneath the car and inside the engine bay. Drove it out to my shop from out back, while en route, decided to smoke the tire a bit, (open rear end) and this 440 HP has SO much torque, that old 15" tire turned to dust basically and the smoke coming off it...man! Well, I put it on the lift, raised it up, cleaned the weeds off it underside the car, and got focused on two areas, actually three or four to rectify before the MOPAR show next month; 1. Steering shaft repair and replace with Flaming River device linking shaft to steering box, 2. Rear Valance repair and installation 3. Exhaust pipes need a little modification (Flowmaster mufflers) and tail pipes raised just a little and 4. The lower rear quarter panels' finish repairing them.

#4 is the most problematic to me. Mainly because the level of craftsmanship I undertook on this car when I did this grafting of donor lower rear qtr sections in is absolutely dreadful! I did these repairs in 1999 or 98, and they are horrible! So, out comes the RAGE body filler and I went to work! I admit it, I don't normally like spreading filler some 1/4 deep, but, this work needs to be hidden! And, I certainly didn't want to un-do the work for the sake of doing it right and causing progress to slow WAY down more than the snails pace I'm able to undertake on this car! So, onward! The current and future projects will never be this bad. The Mustang I just finished is nothing like this work I speak of on this 300. (see my website for pics of 66 Mustang EC).

I can get these 4 items fixed before the car show next month. My goal is to drive the car on the trailer, drive to show, set up, have a lot of cards for people to see, and perhaps have one of my spare 300 Fenders on display, half of it Media Blasted, and the other half raw. So I'd be able to have the car as a MOPAR C body original survivor, been in family since new, and a work in progress, and of course a prop for business promotion?

I suppose if I take like 2 hrs a day on this car, then do the other customers' jobs, this car WOULD make some faster progress? Like any habit, it takes about 3 months to establish a habit, I need to re-establish several of them then; Running, dirt biking, 300, GTX, Satellite, etc. But, life is life, and when customers come, I respond to them. I've had a few 'helpers', but, sadly either their worthless, or, can't work for me that often and I can't have them work on a regular basis for me based on work flow. Oh well. I'm sure these are not new problems to you all to negotiate!
 
I just went through this thread, and, what's missing is PICTURES, so, here you go! These are dated, and all over the place! Enjoy!
300_trailer.jpg300_chassis.jpg300DC1.jpg300EID1.jpg300EID4.jpg300RaiseUp.jpg300RaiseUp_1984.jpg300Storage.jpg300Storage1.jpg300Storage1984_1997.jpg

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300RaiseUp.jpg


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300Storage.jpg


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300Storage1984_1997.jpg
 
Anyone notice the Buick tachometer? It belonged in a Buick Wildcat my grandfather owned before he traded it for this 300, he told the salesman he wanted the Tachometer from the Buick, and my Grandmother had a fit...but, he got his way! LOL!
 
Kind of an unusual car with its 440HP engine, console and auto temp a/c, all in a 4 door no less. Interesting............
 
and optional wider black side wall tires. Unusual car indeed.
 
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