Now Complete Restoration / Pulling my 1969 'Bee down for strip and paint

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New center caps that I just got last week (only 3.18" caps I could find and darn near identical to the 40 year olds) and new lug nuts in place.

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Bolted a front drum in to see how the factory spec'd red face looks behind the wheel. I think it works with the red stripe tire.

Should get to see how it all looks against Blue shortly... I'm worse right now waiting for my car delivery than I was waiting for the Wife to pop out a kid !! 

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OHHH .. I think they may just work !!   More pictures at 11 .. 

[Dino]

Oh heck yeah!   

Do bees have the ss trim around the wheel wells?

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Was an option.. but not on mine.

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As you may note... I got my shell back today!!   

Wife holding the old trunk lid.. I think I hit the Blue about dead on where I wanted to be between the old and B5.

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[Dino]

It even matches her shirt!   

The car looks amazing. Now get to work!   

[Lennard]

Beautiful! 

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Thanks guys.. she's not even cut and polished yet!  

Can't wait to see it with the chrome and stainless back on!

[6bblgt]

Oh heck yeah!   

Do bees have the ss trim around the wheel wells?

Was an option.. but not on mine.

M26 - "WHEEL LIP MOULDINGS" were STANDARD on all 1968-1970 Super Bees   

[lukedukem]

Oh heck yeah!   

Do bees have the ss trim around the wheel wells?

Was an option.. but not on mine.

M26 - "WHEEL LIP MOULDINGS" were STANDARD on all 1968-1970 Super Bees   

Is that M26 suppose to be on the fender tag. Cause my 69 bee doesn't have it.

Car looks good, that blue is deep.

Luke

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That wheel moulding information for Hardtops?.. or Coupes. Which assembly plant? So Standard instead of optional, but I presume like a stripe you could get wheel lip moulding "delete". M27. Knowing how cheap my father was.. it was probably an $18 savings to have them deleted! 

I do not remember this car ever having wheel lip mouldings  

There are no mysterious holes drilled in the front fender lips or signs of any being welded in. Fenders are original to the car..

[6bblgt]

not a fender tag code, they used self taping or drill pint screws - fenders & quarters should have holes if original pieces

STANDARD on all non-delete-able - it was part of Dodge's one-upmanship over the Plymouth Road Runner, along with a-pillar mouldings on the coupes

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Well I'll go have a better look at the fenders for signs of hole fill in, but as I said I do not remember the car ever having lip trim. Full rear quarters were replaced in '79 with NOS metal.

Either way.. they're not going on my car. 

[hemi-hampton]

That's a nice bright blue, looks good LEON.

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Thanks Leon... it's a different colour every way you look at it, even almost purple at times. Wife loves it, I'm still wondering what I did!  HoK403 if you want to use it some day.

Morning shot.. no lights on in shop, no flash, just the light through the garage door upper windows.

Fender tag back where it belongs and a shot to show how clean they media blasted and perfectly painted to show the "hidden" VIN so well on the radiator support.

Can anyone tell me if there is supposed to be a "body plug" in the single big hole in the trunk lid??

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Not getting much done, just staring at parts.. sorting bolts that need painting, etc and deciding how to proceed. I have the headliner laid out upstairs on the wood floor to "de-crease", so I can install it first when I get back from 10 days of ice fishing.

Got my decals out, to lay them out on the pool table to flatten before install when the car is in final cut and polish, and had to put one in place on the car !  

..anyone help on that big trunk lid hole, does it just stay open or is there a plug???

[CDN72SE]

Beautiful blue, looking forward to your progress going forward.

[lukedukem]

If you don't get an answer about the trunk hole by Monday I can look at mine when I get over to the shop.

Luke

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Still wondering about that big trunk hole and whether it gets a plug??

Made a run to pick up my new Coupe door glass and windshield today. The body shop in 1989 sandblasted my passenger door key hole with the window down and I decided it wasn't worth trying to polish their screw up out now that repro glass is actually available. Back then you couldn't even get new door felts for the Coupe. My drivers side window has had a little dish/chip at the upper lock pin for a long time, that you can just see, so they'll both be new.

Dropped by the resto shop on my way back and they had my hood all cut and polished so I can mount my scoops permanently and install my ramcharger air box without worrying how to buff it out later.

Arrived home to my new script battery on the back step via UPS. No acid, but an Odyssey AGM inside the script case.  

[darbgnik]

 

[hemigeno]

..anyone help on that big trunk lid hole, does it just stay open or is there a plug???

The "big hole" stays open.

The smaller hole nearby at the "bottom" corner gets a plug, which is part number 2094984 for anyone keeping score (you already have it installed).

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THANKS Geno !!!