69 Charger 500 , on Nicks Garage

[nascarxx29]

Heard stories of body shop over flowing charger parts on roof in michigan

[mr. hemi]

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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.   

Does anyone know if some of the 500 / Daytona take off parts went back into Chrysler's spare parts inventory? Reason I ask is, I ordered a new '69 rear deck lid from a Michigan dealership back in about 1980. The deck lid that came in was already painted F6 green and had the jacking instruction decal on it. it also had the parts depot tag affixed to it. It had obviously been on a car when built but showed no wear other than minimal handling. I believe Creative modified the deck lids they took off, but could some of them have been returned?

[Livinglife442]

I have often wondered that myself Mrhemi

[69_500]

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

That's my theory so far. Oddly enough it is not on all 500's. Early cars Yes. Later cars it disappears. Still working on exact cut off dates.

[Livinglife442]

Yesterdays YOUTUBE update was nice to see.  From what I could tell most everything turned out really good after the acid dip.  It was nice to see how it pulls out all the filler. 

[Montreal Wing Car]

Update on the 500 at the beginning of the video, had to replace the center part of the trunk floor, too many little holes.
Roger managed to keep the factory spot welds...
https://youtu.be/DpTHwyNzwzA

Ben

[hemi68charger]

Update on the 500 at the beginning of the video, had to replace the center part of the trunk floor, too many little holes.
Roger managed to keep the factory spot welds...
https://youtu.be/DpTHwyNzwzA

Ben

Fantastique !!

[aerolith]

The linky thing is a Coronet?

Nice colour though...

Over to Showtime...

[70 sublime]

The linky thing is a Coronet?

Nice colour though...

watch it a bit farther along has both cars  they are painting inside the trunk on the 500

[aerolith]

Thanx Sublime!

I skipped straight passed it doh...(dork me)

Great idea to spray inside with the trunk floor removed!
My trunk floor was already replaced in the USofA so didn't have that option.
Its real tricky getting in the trunk and spray painting!

Even with a good mask it really gets into the old lungs...

Gonna be one heck of a Charger 500...


ITS SHOWTIME!!!

[Montreal Wing Car]

A little bit of progress, some color!
https://youtu.be/wVdRbbSDR2w

Really trying to preserve as much as possible, most of the hardware has been cleaned up, replaced.
Dash assembly also done, I am trying to post the video from Facebook...

Ben

[Montreal Wing Car]

Another update, at the beginning of the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuA9EHzjWcE

Ben

[hemi68charger]

A little bit of progress, some color!
https://youtu.be/wVdRbbSDR2w

Really trying to preserve as much as possible, most of the hardware has been cleaned up, replaced.
Dash assembly also done, I am trying to post the video from Facebook...

Ben

Glad they paid attention to the rear valance to end cap seam (not filling it in, leaving it open)

[tan top]

   missed a couple of updates ! forgot all about it ! 

looks good !
love the color   

[XS29L9B2]

Nice work

[hemi68charger]

Spoke to Gene last night for over an hour....... Really nice guy and apparently we have a LOT in common from our Charger 500's to our retirement from the Air Force.... Thanks Danny for hooking us up.. Will try to get together with him for lunch soon...

Troy

[69_500]

Gene has plenty of stories to share for sure. I have had several conversations with him over the last 5-6 months. Very nice guy.

[aerolith]

Nice work Showtime!

That underfloor paint looks a little 'light' to me?
We spent many an hour with Galen, getting the colour right and it was much (much) darker and more GREY!

It tends to change over the years to the lighter grey/green but factory 'dip primer' is deffo dark grey...

Will be doing my C500 'underbody' in the spring so I'm really watching this with interest...

[Montreal Wing Car]

Update, things are progressing a bit, almost ready for exterior paint!

https://youtu.be/WF9p0C3HSFw

Ben

[tan top]

  

[hemi68charger]

Another update, at the beginning of the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuA9EHzjWcE

Ben

Spoke to Eugene a few nights ago.. He's excited about the car getting done.. We're supposed to hook up for lunch some time in the near future.. He lives about 2 hours from me...

[Mytur Binsdirti]

Spoke to Eugene a few nights ago

This guy?

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

[tan top]

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_4Z0Fy2DnQ             love this color 

[Montreal Wing Car]

Nice work Showtime!

That underfloor paint looks a little 'light' to me?
We spent many an hour with Galen, getting the colour right and it was much (much) darker and more GREY!

It tends to change over the years to the lighter grey/green but factory 'dip primer' is deffo dark grey...

Will be doing my C500 'underbody' in the spring so I'm really watching this with interest...

That ''primer'' color on the 500 was developped by Roger Gibson if I'm not mistaken...

Ben

[aerolith]

Probably was Ben!

He is the Paint Guru for Mopars...

But when we did some hemi-Daytona's back in the 'Naughties' (2000's) Galen Govier re-researched the 'primer-dip' color tone again.
Folks were painting their cars 'too light' underneath, it should be dark Gray not battleship Gray...
I would call it 'LIGHT-BLACK' not Dark GRAY myself?

So after all that underbody prep, the painter repainted the rear 'wheel-houses' in BODY COLOR???
There should be some light dusting of body color on the frame rails as the cars were painted in a Booth 'on the floor'...(probably with wheels on too).

Overpainting comes to mind here, but 'what do I know' lol...

Paint 'was and still' is expensive and the Bean-counters would not allow for this much paint... (ask Henry Ford)...