Don's 69 Charger Rust Belt restoration

[mopar4don]

looks pretty good

[mopar4don]

(pic1) Now it's time to cut out the old

(pic2 and pic3) and put in the new (after a lot of fitting)

(pic4) here it is after it is welded in

Overall it turned out pretty well 

[cdr]

   very good 

[keepat]

Nice work Don!

[mopar4don]

Thanks for the compliments CDR and keepat! 

[CDN72SE]

Very nice. 

[Stevearino]

Don by the time you are done this car you will be good enough that the only thing you will need to build your next Charger will be pallet of  flat sheet metal.

[Bronzedodge]

This is my favorite thread on the whole board, hands down.   

[alfaitalia]

Great skills there. Beats all the cheese section cutting and welding I would have done to do a similar job!

[Ghoste]

Nice to see this stuff Don, too many nowadays think that if the part can't be found in an AMD catalog then the car cannot be fixed.

[mopar4don]

Thank you very much guys! I am truly humbled by the kind words!

There is a draw back to my approach. And that is it takes a newbie like me a long time, but on the up side, it is a whole lot cheaper!

[tan top]

 nice job !! 

[jwells1993]

awesome work!! 

[VegasCharger]

That is very clever work for sure!!! 

[orange383]

Thank you very much guys! I am truly humbled by the kind words!

There is a draw back to my approach. And that is it takes a newbie like me a long time, but on the up side, it is a whole lot cheaper!

And very satisfying too I should think. You did a great job there. Thanks for sharing your knowledge Don.

[Pat1973charger]

Great work as usual Don!

[mopar4don]

Ok next area to fix on these fenders is the front nose.
Stay tuned.......

[Harper]

Mr you are my HERO!!! thank you for all of your hard work and dedication in posting pictures of each step of this!!! 

[mopar4don]

So what I have is one fender with the nose a bit to blunt (passenger side)
pic1

And the other (driver side) that is just a mess and needs a lot of work (surprise surprise)
pic2

[mopar4don]

I had previously removed the headlight bucket support (pic1)

and because I want NO rust, I went ahead and removed the inner antenna support (pic2-3)

and wheel well brace. These will get blasted and repaired if needed (pic4-5)

[keepat]

Don, Nice work!
Pat

[mopar4don]

Don, Nice work!
Pat

Thanks Pat,
Just trying to keep up with you!

[mopar4don]

So I figured I needed some templates to help me fix the nose of these fenders.
I have another fender that has a good nose so I layed out a grid on it and made templates that would match each grid line or section line. Sorry didn't get a good pic, but you can kind of see the grid in this pic

[mopar4don]

Next I made the templates (each one corresponds to a section line)

[mopar4don]

I then transferred the grid to the fender