66 Charger build

[tan top]

   looking good , nice work 

[piwo440]

Alright, using a photobucket link here.

  Thanks for the advice Mike.

http://s776.photobucket.com/user/piwo440/library/interior?sort=3&page=1

[mauve66]

were your doors coded for white on the bottoms (under the carpet edge??

or did you like the body color better??

i haven't seen alot of white interior 1st gens but those i've seen seem to have the door bottoms coded for white, just wondering, love white interior, i think it looks so FRESH

who did your door panels??

[A383Wing]

the bottom of my doors are white with my white interior car..the outside is cream. This all changed in 67 I believe

[Stevearino]

The car looks fantastic. First class job. I had a lot of problems posting pics when I first came here. I have a routine that works pretty good now. I simply make a reduced size copy of the image down to less than 200kb and in the process I rename the copy with a reasonably long title then save it to a file on my desk top. I haven't had a problem since.
Keep posting.

[piwo440]

Thanks for the compliments!

My door bottoms are supposed to be white. Painted them when I painted everything else. I kind of like it but might change it one of these days.  Obviously with my build I'm not looking for 100% accurate.

I did the whole interior, so far everything but the 727 and the machine work on the block was done by me, trying to keep it that way to save money as well as being able to say that I did everything myself.

[ODZKing]

Lookin' good Ron!!!!!!!!!!!!   

[mauve66]

you?? recovered your door panels?? carpet/vinyl/trim??

[piwo440]

Sorry for misleading you on that part... I recovered and refoamed the seats, repaired and re dyed the headliner, as far as the door panels, armrests, visors, and all the interior parts.... I started with the best pieces that I could find.  They started out as red, green, black and one or two white pieces.  I repaired any rips, and tried buying the pearl white interior dye from Herb's Parts but the color just wasn't right. Turned out almost pearl gold. So.... what I ended up doing was time consuming but worth it.   

It helps that I work in a collision shop.  I was able to mix up a pearl color that was close to the pearl white interior, matching it to my new seat covers. After everything was fixed, I mixed up a grey sealer with flex additive so that everything would cover evenly.  Then sprayed the white basecoat followed by the pearl coats.  After that the clear was applied, and since I didn't want the interior to be shiny I used a gloss reducing additive along with more flex additive. Did the same thing with the black dash pad.

My painter my shop used this same proccess for his motorcycle seat 4 years ago and hasn't had a problem!

[ODZKing]

The Herbs stuff says pearl white but is really pearl.
I found that if you spray the item with white vinyl paint, then shoot it with the Herbs pearl, they come out fine.
But it is a bit misleading.

[piwo440]

I layed down a white base (from Herb's) followed by the pearl, didn't turn out at all.  Awesome people though, Herb himself worked with me trying to figure it out.  We compared notes, tecniques, etc... after all that he admitted that there was something wrong and snt me my money back.

[piwo440]

That picture is of the new ACC seat covers. The door panels are just based white and the armrest has the pearl. The problem was with the white base... has a goldish yellow tint to it.

[ODZKing]

Yeah, I should have mentioned that I used Rust-Oleum fabric & vinyl white off the shelf. (At The Time) I thought it was too white, but with the pearl on it, it is perfect.

[mauve66]

thanks

[piwo440]

Been awhile since I posted here, but here ya go!

[piwo440]

Still trying to find a decent front bumper....

[moparnation74]

Ron,

66 looks amazing!! Damn fine job!

[piwo440]

So far I have run a best of 11.98 @109 mph.   With 3.23 gears.  Soon to be swapping in some 3.91's

[piwo440]

Videos are poor quality, a buddy took them then had to condense them to send them to me, better ones next spring!   But the sound is still awesome, crank it up!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APzbIUCFvIY&list=FL5hVT3g9O_DqpOFMRlYkLww

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmWTeowWYqg

[JB400]

Looks like it launches good.

[Ghoste]

No kidding, a little weight transfer going on there.