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Re: '68 Charger RT

Posted: Wed Feb 23, 22 12:00 am
by westcoastdodge
cheers guys,means a lot :)
anyways pulled off both 1/4s and fix some of the mess under there,not to bad,replaced part of the inner roof structure above the left hand rear wheel house and replaced the shelf brackets.needed to replace the whole b post as some poor repair probably carried out years ago :pale:

Re: '68 Charger RT

Posted: Wed Feb 23, 22 12:12 am
by ScottyDave
:shock: crikey that's quite a chunk cut out.

Re: '68 Charger RT

Posted: Wed Feb 23, 22 12:23 am
by westcoastdodge
few small repairs to rear wheel tubs,rear rockers under the 1/4 skin were clean so prepped and epoxied,also prepped the rear 1/4 panels,some rear window frame repairs needed...

Re: '68 Charger RT

Posted: Wed Feb 23, 22 12:28 am
by westcoastdodge
ScottyDave wrote: Wed Feb 23, 22 12:12 am :shock: crikey that's quite a chunk cut out.
sure is Scotty,she was quite rusty when i dug into her,would not take to long to empty a bank account for sure... :help: :thumbright:

Re: '68 Charger RT

Posted: Wed Feb 23, 22 4:02 am
by Chargingatchya
Excellent work. Have been there myself and It’s pretty scary at this point but this looks to be going incredibly well. I never had that much rust under the lower window channels but my rear frame rails under the trunk floor were practically gone.

Really enjoying the photos and the thread, keep up the good work. There is some comfort in knowing I’m not the only one crazy enough to embark on a project of this scale \:D/ =D>

Re: '68 Charger RT

Posted: Wed Feb 23, 22 9:13 am
by MattH
Seriously impressive work there, great stuff, keep the pics coming. This and the St Albans Charger show what can be done these days. =D>

Re: '68 Charger RT

Posted: Thu Feb 24, 22 9:06 pm
by westcoastdodge
getting ahead of myself a little here(again)roof was heavily pitted thin and quite a few pin holes(vinyl top car).lots of cutting and grinding later turns out the roof structure was not in too bad a shape with only one small repair needed 8-)

Re: '68 Charger RT

Posted: Thu Feb 24, 22 9:51 pm
by Pete
Amazing wok, but I didn't know you could get all those internal panels now.

When I got into the hobby you could not even get quarter panels! It was NOS or cut-offs from crashed vehicles.

Re: '68 Charger RT

Posted: Thu Feb 24, 22 11:11 pm
by westcoastdodge
Pete wrote: Thu Feb 24, 22 9:51 pm Amazing wok, but I didn't know you could get all those internal panels now.

When I got into the hobby you could not even get quarter panels! It was NOS or cut-offs from crashed vehicles.
hi Pete yep agreed,did one of these around 10 years ago and nothing available,luckily it needed only frame work and outer 1/4 skins which were nasty at that time.id heard before lockdown that AMD where looking for the main roof inner structures to replicate which would be great [-o< :)

Re: '68 Charger RT

Posted: Thu Feb 24, 22 11:29 pm
by westcoastdodge
rear parcel shelf was a little corroded and did not have this piece so decided to carry out a couple of repairs,turned out great :D

Re: '68 Charger RT

Posted: Thu Feb 24, 22 11:36 pm
by westcoastdodge
cleaned and prepped then used epoxy on the rear then finally wrestled the 1/4s into position then roof install,looking like a car again at this point

Re: '68 Charger RT

Posted: Fri Feb 25, 22 7:02 am
by cadboy
That is some great work you are doing :thumbright: =D> =D> =D>

Re: '68 Charger RT

Posted: Fri Feb 25, 22 5:20 pm
by mr m
you are 1 very brave guy or a complete nutter actually u r a brave nutter =D> =D> =D> =D>

Re: '68 Charger RT

Posted: Fri Feb 25, 22 7:33 pm
by slumbers
Wow !! I thought mine had some rust when I restored it but nothing approaching this . Your doing a Fantastic job =D> =D>

Re: '68 Charger RT

Posted: Mon Mar 07, 22 6:17 pm
by Steve
Absolutely outstanding work there! Having made and replaced panels etc for my old 66 Fury I fully appreciate the skill involved in what you are doing. The detailed pics are extremely good learning tools....keep up the great work, this will be a beautiful car when it's done :thumbright: