Mounting a 69 C500 grille using original 68 Coronet parts

[mopar346]

Good morning folks,

I have finally gotten my 500 out of paint jail after over 5 years (I know feel fortunate only 5 years) and it's time for reassembly. The car was parted out years ago so the original grill mounting hardware is gone. I was able to get a set of the Dayclona repop bracket to mount the grill itself several years back but nothing to mount the headlight buckets or surrounds so I will be feeling my way through that. I've heard it can be done using original 68 Coronet parts but I do not know anyone who has done it and my searches have been less than helpful.I can go from scratch but why reinvent the wheel if I can learn from others. Can some one point me to a comprehensive thread or article? If not I will try to document my adventure for the future. I reached out to member who had referenced doing in a thread and tried to email Dayclona but the email I have for him kicked backed.

Thanks in advance for any help, Kevin

[70 sublime]

I had a 68 Coronet parts car at one point and kept the center grill in case I ever wanted to try it myself
Also hacked out the Coronet head light mount part out of the Coronet fenders as the light bulbs themselves have a different spacing than Charger

Think I read someplace the coronet light parts mount in front of the Charger head light area to get them closer to the front of the fender opening

[70 sublime]

I just found the links I had saved when I saw stuff along the way about the grill

http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,138968.0.html

http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,134912.0/topicseen.html

[mopar346]

Thank you, I have a good number of those pictures but the commentary was excellent. I had actually responded in one of those threads, never thought to search my own post. I have the original Coronet parts and tons of pictures and even measurements from original cars but I'm still curious how the if the outer headlight surrounds is an original Coronet piece or is it a special piece? I know the buckets are original Coronet pieces, I have cut them out of the fenders already and currently still have the surrounds attached but it is a 2 piece deal. Don't want to cut them off the buckets until I have a clear vision of if and how they are used.

Thanks again.

[mopar346]

Does anyone know if the uprights are common use Mopar piece modified or just a piece of hardware store metal?

I saw a reference to a Troy thread on the subject, anyone have that link?

Thanks in advance, kevin

[DAY CLONA]

Does anyone know if the uprights are common use Mopar piece modified or just a piece of hardware store metal?

I saw a reference to a Troy thread on the subject, anyone have that link?

Thanks in advance, kevin

Kevin,


My Email is dayclona@gmail.com The only Charger 500 peices I make for the grille area are the 8 center grille brackets that you have, and the end filler pcs that go around the headlite/finder area,  the parts are commonly refered to as fender or grille fillers, Troy had a good article (I don't have a link) with text and pics high lighting all the parts and mods needed, there's an individual on Ebay selling some of the headlite extention parts (repro) so do a search on EBay as well for parts, perhaps you could PM Troy, or someone could locate the thread, just logging on this site is a task, nevermind searching it's castrated search feature


MikeG