Wayne Perkins 69 500 restoration begins

[69bronzeT5]

Awesome, the C500 is looking AWESOME!!! Anymore pictures of the General Lee

[WINGMAN]

  Waynes car and mine 500 are four numbers apart, his lower.  Looking goog Wayne Jay.

[moparstuart]

Wayne had the interior dyed so all the reds match ( he had like 8 different shades going on ).  . He and I are going to reskin his seats soon (new legendary covers). Money has been tight . But he  is still plugging away .  The # 's matching trans is rebuild and ready to go in and he has it at the shop having all new brakes installed .
  The #'s matching motor is tired so he will have it rebuild at a later point to install later. He had a fresh 440 already done he will use for now in the 500.  His plan is to take the car to talledege .  Anyway thats is the plan as of now .

  stuart

[PocketThunder]

Wayne had the interior dyed so all the reds match ( he had like 8 different shades going on ).  . He and I are going to reskin his seats soon (new legendary covers). Money has been tight . But he  is still plugging away .  The # 's matching trans is rebuild and ready to go in and he has it at the shop having all new brakes installed .
  The #'s matching motor is tired so he will have it rebuild at a later point to install later. He had a fresh 440 already done he will use for now in the 500.  His plan is to take the car to talledege .  Anyway thats is the plan as of now .

  stuart

He must be having a light wallet syndrome having two cars worked on at once.

Good to know he's bringing this C500 to Talledega.   

[moparstuart]

yeah they nickel and dime you to death

[pettybird]

Wayne had the interior dyed so all the reds match ( he had like 8 different shades going on ).  . He and I are going to reskin his seats soon (new legendary covers). Money has been tight . But he  is still plugging away .  The # 's matching trans is rebuild and ready to go in and he has it at the shop having all new brakes installed .
  The #'s matching motor is tired so he will have it rebuild at a later point to install later. He had a fresh 440 already done he will use for now in the 500.  His plan is to take the car to talledege .  Anyway thats is the plan as of now .

  stuart

I would MUCH rather sell the wrong motor and get the right one rebuilt.  I'd never be motivated to change the damn thing later. 

[moparstuart]

Wayne had the interior dyed so all the reds match ( he had like 8 different shades going on ).  . He and I are going to reskin his seats soon (new legendary covers). Money has been tight . But he  is still plugging away .  The # 's matching trans is rebuild and ready to go in and he has it at the shop having all new brakes installed .
  The #'s matching motor is tired so he will have it rebuild at a later point to install later. He had a fresh 440 already done he will use for now in the 500.  His plan is to take the car to talledege .  Anyway thats is the plan as of now .

  stuart

I would MUCH rather sell the wrong motor and get the right one rebuilt.  I'd never be motivated to change the damn thing later. 

Yeah but the motor is with the car so it can be sold with it (if that ever happened).  It will never leave his hands untill he's dead i would imagine .  Plus there are pleanty other project for the good 440 to go in once it's tenyear is done in the 500.  No reason to sell it to rebuild the #'s motor .  #'s motor will make it into the car some day.  In a perfect world he would have tons of money to restore them all perfect right now.  Hes Retired postal worker so live on a set income .    going postal

     

[paironines]

I don't know if I missed the answer to this but, what's the story on the 70 Charger with the dented bumper you can see in one picture?  R/T I presume judging by the other cars?

[moparstuart]

I don't know if I missed the answer to this but, what's the story on the 70 Charger with the dented bumper you can see in one picture?  R/T I presume judging by the other cars?

very nice manual car hit hard on the right side , will be restored one day

[moparstuart]

any glove box experts on a charger 500 

    wayne cant figure out what was written on his glove box   


  Here is a good one for your Charger guys.  Any idea what was written on my 500 glove box?

 

[moparstuart]

motor  in         

[Blown70]

That white sure is PURDY

[moparstuart]

 he has been plugging away at the car and should have the motor up and running soon .

[moparstuart]

car is now complete

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[tan top]

    love that color combo   recal wheels  look  great 

nice looking C500 

[pettybird]

thankfully it has the stock hood!


how nice is it compared to your birdible, stu?

[moparstuart]

 I would say it's nicer then the birdible , I still have some stuff i want to have redone on it . Wayne has already had it back to the body shop to have several things fixed . He does warranty his work .

 

[hotrod98]

Looks good. 

[pettybird]

I really like white and red cars, and this is one of the only cars I like recall wheels on--congratulate him on a nice resurrection, but tell him I'm disappointed it's not painted like the Goldsmith car 

why did the quarter panel marker reflector bezels get painted stripe color?  in the "before" photos they're body color--was there red under the white under the red or something?