My first Charger project ***Video***

[Belgium R/T -68]

Preparationwork continues. Cleaned up the vacuumactuators and sanded off the old black paint, tomorrow they will be painted in natural cast silver.
The headligt doorhouses got cleaned up and repaired since I had some small cracks in them, then sanding and finally painting.

Per

[Belgium R/T -68]

The frame is ready except for a layer of flat clearcoat since it's a big risc of getting scratches in that place when working in the enginebay and spraycanpaint
isn't as strong as normal paint according to my opinion. The doorhouses and centergrille has been sanded and painted black, the silverpart I sanded with 1000 grit
at the finish. I did the black first because I don't want to put maskingtape on the silverpaint once it's there.

Per

[b5blue]

I wonder how the factory "did" this part?  Some kind of masking machine?

[Silver R/T]

possibly a mold that went over/inside each fin and then got blasted with silver real quick

[lexxman]

possibly a mold that went over/inside each fin and then got blasted with silver real quick

Ya,or some kind of roller systems.Or the just had a line of guys masking it all off.It's looking good Per.

[mopar_nut_440_6]

Is the steel grille frame supposed to be satin black or gloss black? I have seen them both ways!

[lexxman]

How's the grille coming any way? Can't wait to see it on the car.

[Belgium R/T -68]

After a lot of sanding, painting, sanding again because of wrong colour or other problems I'm finally ready with the grille. I have followed one source of colour-
matching since there are different opinions on what's right and what's not. Anyway, the grille together with the vinyltop was something that I really feared for before
doing it but with a lot of patience and good advices from the database here on the forum it's not that scary at all. New parts used are the moldingset from Gunslinger,
wireharness with vacuumlines, emblems and all new bolts, nuts and clips from r/t specialties. I just hanged it up now on the car so I still have to do the alignment.
My charger starts to look like a -68 charger should look like.

Per

[Belgium R/T -68]

Here's some moore.

[Belgium R/T -68]

And some moore....

[charger_cody]

Lookin good Per!!!! 

I can see it now, you roaring down the street and the ladies are gonna jump ALL over you. 

Cody

[jb666]

WOW! That looks great!!!!!!!!!!!! 

[mikepmcs]

Wow, very nice!!

[FLG]

Nice Per!!

Do you mind coming to the states to do mine when the time coems?? 

[lexxman]

That is looking really nice.When do you think you'll do the first drive?

[Back N Black]

Great job! that's what i like about doing your own restoration, its done to your standards and you can take pride in your work.   

[ionracer24]

hey per, nice color!  i did notice that u missed some spots on the undercarriage,  i'm not critiquing your work or anything but you might wanna cover that up before u hit the roads!! i'd hate for u to have take that beautiful car off the road just to do under carriage work   

[moparstuart]

 

[Belgium R/T -68]

Thanks guys

FLG: Would love to come and help you with your car, been a dream for 30 years to see The USA.

lexxman: I hope to be able to do first small testdrive not later then 2 weeks from now.

Ionracer24: I will fix the paintwork on the undercarriage when my subframeconnectors are welded in. I don't know about others who restores their cars but I will
have a lot of work even after the car is "finnished". Bolts that have to be changed because they are not correct, electrical problems, noice and other things that will
pop up once I start to drive it.

Per

[Belgium R/T -68]

Aligned the grille today  and started with the front bumper but there I need a hand to get that one in the right position since it requier adjusting the big brackets.
Then it's time for the front valancepanel which will be rather tricky I guess since it was just hanging there with some electrical wires so finding the right mountingpoints
will be a puzzle. New parkinglights are installed since the old ones were painted in a very bad way and couldn't be saved.

Per

[charger_cody]

Lookin good Per!!! We need a burnout video or pic asap.

Cody

[six-tee-nine]

 

Top job my buddy......
I think you'll be ready just in time for the springtime to get her out of the garage   

[Chargerrtforme]

What did you use for grille color?  It looks real good. Great detail job.

[Matthan]

Good work it is very nice Charger

[twodko]

Hi Per,

Your grille turned out very well. Good job buddy! 68 grilles seem easier to restore than a 69. I applied the final coat of satin clear on my headlight doors this weekend and have most of the grille masked off. Tedious to say the least but well worth it. I hope mine turns out as well as yours did. It's a pleasure reading your threads Per. Cheers!

Tom