My '69 Charger Restoration

[justin1987]

Looks awesome man. Are you putting the front spoiler on it like the car in your sig?

Probably not, but I'm not going to rule out the possibility. There are a few things I have planned that will be weekend/winter projects after I get the car done.

[justin1987]

Here is today's progress. Enjoy!

[Charger-Bodie]

Lookin Better all the time man!!!   

[keepat]

AWESOME JOB! and a great color choice
Pat

[69bronzeT5]

and a great color choice

You'll be seeing more of that soon...I hope

Great job man, what seats are those?

[justin1987]

great color choice

[justin1987]

what seats are those?

http://store.summitracing.com/partdetail.asp?autofilter=1&part=SUM%2DG1159%2D1&N=700+0&autoview=sku 

They look a lot better than what that picture shows. The pictures makes it look like the interior is crowded, but there is plenty of room.

[69bronzeT5]

what seats are those?

http://store.summitracing.com/partdetail.asp?autofilter=1&part=SUM%2DG1159%2D1&N=700+0&autoview=sku 

They look a lot better than what that picture shows. The pictures makes it look like the interior is crowded, but there is plenty of room.

Hmmm...I like, I like.

I was thinking about getting these for my car..
http://www.corbeau.com/products/trs/trs.shtml

[justin1987]

Thanks for all the compliments everyone. It really means a lot. 

[tan top]

 :drool5:wow dude nice job    .................... looks  real nice

[justin1987]

Well here is the progress that has been made. It isn't much because my parents just bought a new house about 3 weeks ago and my dad has been focusing most of his time on the house.

We had a problem with the back part of the exhaust rattling like hell, so last week we took it and had the entire rear part of the exhaust replaced.

Today I took it to get the torsion bars set and the front end aligned. Apparently trying to set the front end with a tape measure on a gravel floor really doesn't work. The alignment was WAY off. I think he said the tires were skidding 120 feet a mile.

I swear, with all the problems we've had on this car I think I need to call a priest and exercise the demons out of it.

Here are some pics.

[mikes_classics_68]

sorry guys <--  long time lurker  seldom poster.   but daaaaammm  what a nice car!  i thought the only color a charger should be is jet black  but this silver is making me reconsider that opinion.    what kind of sifter is that you have on there?  i'm diggin the dual eye hole triggers     

[justin1987]

sorry guys <--  long time lurker  seldom poster.   but daaaaammm  what a nice car!  i thought the only color a charger should be is jet black  but this silver is making me reconsider that opinion.    what kind of sifter is that you have on there?  i'm diggin the dual eye hole triggers     

Thank you! 

The shifter is a Hurst V-matic 2. It's kind of a pain in the ass sometimes because most people can't figure out how to shift from reverse to drive, but I really don't have a problem with it.

[Charger-Bodie]

Nice to see it with a  Grille!!! Youre Charger is really looking great!! 

[mikes_classics_68]

sorry guys <--  long time lurker  seldom poster.   but daaaaammm  what a nice car!  i thought the only color a charger should be is jet black  but this silver is making me reconsider that opinion.    what kind of sifter is that you have on there?  i'm diggin the dual eye hole triggers     

Thank you! 

The shifter is a Hurst V-matic 2. It's kind of a pain in the ass sometimes because most people can't figure out how to shift from reverse to drive, but I really don't have a problem with it.

might be kinda nice that no one knows how to use it  might help prevent theft or J-off friends trying to mess with your wheels 

[hemi68charger]

Looking good !!!!

Troy

[justin1987]

might be kinda nice that no one knows how to use it  might help prevent theft or J-off friends trying to mess with your wheels 

I thought of that also. Between the shifter and the battery disconnect that we have hidden (it would take somebody hours to find it) there will be a very very slim chance someone could steal this car.

[Brock Samson]

  i see with the exception of the wheels you and cody have the same sig pic... 

[69bronzeT5]

i see with the exception of the wheels you and cody have the same sig pic... 

Yep, except he's stil deciding on the front spoiler and I have added some stuff to mine (ds440 hasnt done a photoshop yet).

[justin1987]

i see with the exception of the wheels you and cody have the same sig pic... 

Yeah, I need to change that. DS made that pic based on one he did for Cody. My car wasn't painted at the time and I wanted an idea of what it would look like.

[66chargerkid]

The two silver chargers in the sigs is kinda disorienting!
I wanted a 2nd gen SOO BAD!!! But My first gen is growing on me.
Nice work! Hope to see some more updates

[JoeyGowdy]

Looking good 

[justin1987]

So it's been a LONG time since I've updated this thread. There really hasn't been that much progress because my parents bought a new house in April and my dad has been spending all of this free time building new stuff for the place. Plus it had to get repainted because there were too many flaws in it. Also the hood was cracking on the side in three different places. Needless to say, we were pretty pissed. So they sanded the car down, fixed the cracks, and repainted the car. We are now just waiting on the headliner guy to get caught up so we can take the car to him. Then all that is left is to put the dash cap on, put the seatbelts in, put the R/T stripe on the back, and replace the exhaust manifold gasket on the passenger side because it has a hole in it. Here are some new pics.


Here is the car on the trailer at the new house.


Another picture of the car on the trailer.


Sitting in the driveway at the new house.


The Charger and the Torino in the new shop.


The second paint job looks a lot better.


The dash is finally all put back together.


The new CD player installed.


The interior is almost finished.


I love this picture.

[69bronzeT5]

Nice house!! Great to see more progress but it sucks it had to get re-painted.

[JoeyGowdy]

Looks good!