Yearlong E body project

[C Body Bob]

Nice. I got to get me an E body to play with some day. Love that 68 B too

 

[detmatt]

Did he paint that in your shop Matt?

No, his place. His hot rod that he's building had a prolonged stay in paint jail so he had some time and the space to do this for me. Many thanks to him, he does very nice work. He was one of my partners in the '71 Charger R/T project from a few years back, the citron yella one.

 

[detmatt]

I got a little further along on the engine but it's still not completely painted yet.

 

[polara71]

Wish I still had mine!

Glad I dont have mine

 

[polara71]

Big blocks look so impressive, even out of their cage

 

[1978 NYB]

No, his place. His hot rod that he's building had a prolonged stay in paint jail so he had some time and the space to do this for me. Many thanks to him, he does very nice work. He was one of my partners in the '71 Charger R/T project from a few years back, the citron yella one.

I remember well...

Loved that Charger R/T with the big thump cam. LOL!

 

[detmatt]

Here it is with the clear coat on it. The last pic is a close up of the existing paint on the top of the fender compared to the new on top of the cowl.

 

[C Body Bob]

It's going to be a beauty when done

 

[1978 NYB]

Beautiful color and well applied!

 

[detmatt]

The previous paint job didn't have the correct blackout treatment behind the grille so with a little research I found a factory guideline on the net which explained how it was sprayed on the line.

 

[detmatt]

Turned out great!

 

[70bigblockdodge]

Looks nice glad you put the blackout back on.

 

[Zymurgy]

Where did your car come from originally. The body looks really clean. I am guessing it has never seen salt.

 

[polara71]

Turned out great!

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Interesting.....

 

[detmatt]

Where did your car come from originally. The body looks really clean. I am guessing it has never seen salt.

It was a Texas car prior to coming to Michigan in about '94 and it is extremely clean and solid. Sometime when still in Texas it was painted red and back to Butterscotch which is likely when the ralley hood and T/A spoiler were added. The fender tag points to it not having a ralley hood but it did have the stripes and air conditioning and still retains its original 383 HP and automatic trans..

 

[detmatt]

Since he didn't have a heck of a lot of time before his car was back from paint there was no time to waste in getting all of the freshly restored or new parts put back on.

 

[detmatt]

It was hard to keep up with him and rather expensive...

 

[detmatt]

I'm so excited!

 

[detmatt]

Here's the standard instrument cluster that I restored and installed 5 or 6 years ago, maybe more. At the same time it got new legendary skins and carpet.

 

[Zymurgy]

Damn so when did all of this take place? How long from when your buddy got it to this point? You're going to have it easily back together before the salt is off the roads.