69 Charger 500 , on Nicks Garage

[Montreal Wing Car]

Interior teardown starting, and one nice surprise in a plastic bag under the passenger seat!
Original windshield was carefully taken out, should be re-used, to get access to the dash bolts.
The wiring did not suffer too much, with no aftermarket gauges or radio added early in life, like many of those cars... Again, original will be cleaned, repaired as needed and re-used.
Lots of the original Y2 Yellow peeking out (It will go back to Y2)
More here as it progresses, and on Nick's Garage on YouTube!

Ben

Can you have him get a pic of the backside of 500 emblem?

I went today, no progress, Nick has taken his annual vacation... Got a couple pics of the emblems as requested

Ben

[Sgt Superbird]

Can we assume those front emblems are irreplaceable?

[odcics2]

Can we assume those front emblems are irreplaceable?

Last 3 left in existence at a fair price!  EXACTLY the same as above. Even the vendor code is the same!!

https://www.forbbodiesonly.com/moparforum/threads/nos-charger-coronet-500-emblem-real-deal.194252/

Will make a deal.      PM me HERE !!  

[nascarxx29]

Maybe this car .Seen in Wildwood NJ way back

[hemi68charger]

Wonder if that's my former Y2 C500 I traded from Pete ( now B5 for Allen K ). It used to run the streets of the New England area..........

[Lesizmore]

So now I know what mine should look like.

[Montreal Wing Car]

Video made at the same time I took the pictures, I was actually filming the windshield/dash removal!
If somebody can imbed it instead of just a link?

https://youtu.be/oHltoJpHZn4?t=252

More work to be done this week for disassembly, body will be chemically stripped.

Ben

[Montreal Wing Car]

Disassembly continues, this car is sooooo clean! floors are perfect, in fact the only damage is on the passenger side, and it was done when they took it out of storage earlier this year...
There is only some scaling on the trunk floor... Let's see how it looks after it comes back from the dipper!

https://youtu.be/WJzTGd5IX4Y

Ben

[Montreal Wing Car]

Body and parts are back from chemical stripping, and it's even better than expected!
It's at the body shop now, https://showtimemusclecars.com/welcome/
Here are some pics, I took more than 150, almost every square inch!
I was surprised to see that it started out as a stripe delete car, as it has holes for the R/T emblem on the quarters, which you could not see under the ''500'' stripe...
Should be in paint in 8-12 weeks at the most, as Nick has promised the owner to try and finish it within one year (Which is about how long it would have taken for another well-known shop to simply look at it...).

Ben

[Montreal Wing Car]

More pics....

Ben

[nascarxx29]

 
FOWLER MOTORS INC.   Route #15   Searta   NJ   XX29L9B144173     

[aerolith]

Nice one NICK!

How could you go on holiday with a Charger 500 'in the shop'.

All that 'BARE' metal   gives me the shakes, so close to winter...

Hope they are gonna put all the LOVELY LEAD back in?
Otherwise it will just be a 69 Charger with a badly fitted PLUG lol...

[Montreal Wing Car]

Here's another episode, all about the teardown of the 500:
https://youtu.be/ThLC00M4z-c

There could be more Wing car action at Nick's soon... ;-)

Ben

[RallyeMike]

I was surprised to see that it started out as a stripe delete car, as it has holes for the R/T emblem on the quarters, which you could not see under the ''500'' stripe...

FYI all 500's left the assembly line as V88 stripe delete cars. There is probably some forgotten box somewhere with about 1000 69 Charger "R/T" quarter panel emblems in it.

... and thanks for the updates 

[tan top]

thanks for the updates 

[Montreal Wing Car]

I was surprised to see that it started out as a stripe delete car, as it has holes for the R/T emblem on the quarters, which you could not see under the ''500'' stripe...

FYI all 500's left the assembly line as V88 stripe delete cars. There is probably some forgotten box somewhere with about 1000 69 Charger "R/T" quarter panel emblems in it.

... and thanks for the updates 

You are welcome!
So they all have holes on the quarter panels that had to be filled by Creative? Also in lead?
Thanks,
Ben

[RallyeMike]

So they all have holes on the quarter panels that had to be filled by Creative? Also in lead?

It seems that the holes were done with plastic body filler as seen on some cars with the filler swiped in the inside of the quarter to fill the holes. I can't tell on mine because it was repainted.

Thanks for those close up shots of the rear window plug and lead melted away. I had not seen that in detail before.

[steve817]

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Check out the two front lower metal splash shields where creative industries cut so they could pull the front bumper off with the brackets all connected. I don't see the extra pieces in the pics with all the parts, so they should still be attached to the car. Just another detail that has to be duplicated using the exact same pieces when reassembled.

[Montreal Wing Car]

Nice one NICK!

How could you go on holiday with a Charger 500 'in the shop'.

All that 'BARE' metal   gives me the shakes, so close to winter...

Hope they are gonna put all the LOVELY LEAD back in?
Otherwise it will just be a 69 Charger with a badly fitted PLUG lol...

Yes, they are working on the plug now and using old-style lead filler...

Ben

[Montreal Wing Car]

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Check out the two front lower metal splash shields where creative industries cut so they could pull the front bumper off with the brackets all connected. I don't see the extra pieces in the pics with all the parts, so they should still be attached to the car. Just another detail that has to be duplicated using the exact same pieces when reassembled.

Not sure what you mean, here are a few more from the front:

Ben

[C500]

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Check out the two front lower metal splash shields where creative industries cut so they could pull the front bumper off with the brackets all connected. I don't see the extra pieces in the pics with all the parts, so they should still be attached to the car. Just another detail that has to be duplicated using the exact same pieces when reassembled.

do you mean these two?

[aerolith]

I can see another Tom Nelson 'maximus' Charger lol...

Clearcoat everything, so us 'metalmen can see all that lovely Detroit steel, 'in the flesh'...
Absolutely stunning workmanship by the Moparmen of the 60's.
Assembled with love and care, every spotweld beautifully crafted to create a masterpiece!

A rolling 'iron and steel' icon of Mother Mopars finest in the search for the 200 mph limit of sanity.

Don't see any 60's Musclecars floating around in the sea polluting the wildlife like the plastic cars of today...

my meds have worn off...

[ae8i]

At 44:09 in the video, "yes" is shown on the driver's side tail light housing. Anyone seen that on other 500s? Any ideas on what it signifies?

https://youtu.be/ThLC00M4z-c?t=2649

[WINGMAN]

  The word Yes and only on 500s told the people at creative to install the trunk lamp.    9Wingman).   Jay.

[odcics2]

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Check out the two front lower metal splash shields where creative industries cut so they could pull the front bumper off with the brackets all connected. I don't see the extra pieces in the pics with all the parts, so they should still be attached to the car. Just another detail that has to be duplicated using the exact same pieces when reassembled.

Related info - Back many decades ago, there was a guy selling Creative take off parts at a swap meet in Michigan.
He had the front bumpers, bumper brackets and the valance, all in one big assemply, for sale. 

Said they were take off parts from Daytona conversions.