Finally got my 68 charger

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dip time

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On the way to the body shop for some primer...

[Lennard]

Great job, that's how you restore a car.

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So here I am,with the car ,at work on my day off. Getting ready to clean all the oil off the car from the dipping process. Lucky I worked at a shop that allowed me to work on my car and get it in some primer, we restored many mopars at the shop over the years, that's a 69 R/t SE  before getting a full restoration on the hoist. And a 68 dart gts. it helped that we were all dodge guys at the shop.The owner even owns a 69 rt with a 572 hemi 5 speed

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After cutting off the quarter panels and hours of degreasing,the car was ready for primer

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Later that day it's back home .. let the fun begin

[hemi-hampton]

So far so good. Have fun. LEON.

[Baldwinvette77]

Awesome!!!

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For people who are thinking of getting there cars dipped ...the Process doesn't remove all the rust in the seams, especially in the heavily Corroded areas. But for the most part it sure leaves you with a nice starting point. The key to the dipping process is to get it neutralized  thoroughly and if you can get it ecoated... unfortunately they didn't offer it where I had it dipped

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After the repair to the rear crossmember was done I removed what was left of the trunk pan. The rear rails were then boxed . Next the rails were braced to the floor of the garage, the roof structure was braced to the rail, the wheel well flange and trunk/Dutchman supports were braced as well

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With the inner and outer wheel well missing the need for all the bracing can be seen

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Test fitting the outer wheel well to the quarter skin with the newly welded inner tub ... like a glove

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And then for some reason I did lots of work and didn't take any pictures, but as you can see the trunk pan is in as well as the extension. I also modified the outer wheel well to gain tire clearance then it was painted body colour

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[bakerhillpins]

    Great progress you are makin.  Looks good. 

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Shiny new amd full quarters took the place of the skins that I was going to use originally... at the time when I started the project ,amd wasn't around yet! So I figured if I was going to do it , do it right
Around the same time I started to mock up the dash. Ill be making the dash, console and door panels out of fibreglass and carbon fibre. The mdf is how I will be making my moulds. The foam door panel was just to see how ideas would look

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The seat are out of a jaguar that was gitting scraped at the shop

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New amd fenders and a swap meet amd door .... starting to look like a car again. for the most part the amd stuff fits well ,and if I could do it again I would have replace the original door with an amd piece. The amd stuff fits better to it's self then to original panels

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