My first real project mopar, had a 1968 belvedere two years ago but a baby forced the sale which was fine, I love this car, its not the cool color its a 318 car-have a 408 just waiting to fall in(hopefully this sunday) bench seat auto on cloumn- all the things most guys wouldnt like but I fell in love with it, had some major rust issues and a large dent in the driver quarter but for $1800 and the fact it ran and drove better than most newer cars its my baby and wont be going anywhere soon! I have a newly built 8 3/4 to replace the 8 1/4 with 3.91 gears, a rebuilt trans 904(little nervous about that) newly built 408 tuned by Kilpatrick, 18" boss 338 wheels and just got the rear quarters replaced with skins I got with the car. I am getting it running in time for Mopar Nats in August! Hope You guys can appreciate her beauty

 

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ok just a few more-can you tell I'm obsessed

 

Cool car, Cool pictures and great looking new wheels.

 

That is some great progress on the rear quarter. I love that shade of green.

 

I am torn on keeping the color-my wife hates it but its a little different, was thinking about the plum crazy on the new challengers, or possibly a shade of metallic grey, anyone have any opinions on the 904 trans holding up?-will have a 3,000 stall converter to make the cam freindly.

 

I don't think an obsession with one of Chrysler Corporation's finest body designs is wrong, but I am a little biased. Our's was origanally Olive Green, we painted it '74 Chrysler Dark Green Metallic like my Dad's New Yorker. Looked great! This time when it gets out of surgery the family is torn about colour. No Black, same Green is a front runner, the Blue that was on Rusty Wallace's #2 or maybe White with a Blue Pearl and ghost stripe my oldest son wants to shoot for me. We are still deciding if the bumpers will stay chrome or paint them, which seems to be a trend I like. Keep up the good work, 1970 body is unique and a keeper.

 

It is not an obsession, it is a life style

 

dang your doing an awsome job keep it up and keep the pic's coming , its always nice to see a rebirth of an old car takeing place

 

Man I gotta get some new pictures up, UPDATE- motor in tranny in rear end in, new rims and tires on(unbelievable how well 295's fill up the wheel wells!) motor running after new dist. went to hell, then new exhaust done-insane loud like open headers loud out the back of the car-seriously, then no start/no spark-traced back to ignition box, replaced and fired right back up! Just have to add some rear diff fluid, finish throttle linkage and do some bits and peices to tie up the electrical. Pictures soon!!-I'l try to make a video of the exhaust-long tube headers-2.5" mid-pipe-no H orX to 3" tailpipes

 

working on this picture thing-trying to get them resizerd to show my progress

 

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Color? Its your car your decision, but if it were me... Original color.... It is different, not many that color are left and doing a color change is a really really really time consuming and hard to do, to make it "right"... Oh and BTW it IS a cool car, and not a fan of 'hoops' that size but they do look good on YOUR car.... Oh did i mention?, a color change is hard to do? lol

 

Ok so I'm thinking you really really like the factory color hehee, I decieded to wait a while to paint it so I can throw the idea around a for a while atleast a year or so- thanks for the compliments!-gonna get some better full car shots within a day or so keep an eye out for em

 

 

Looks really good....I like that it's an unusual color, keep it. How does it run?

 

The color is definetly growing on me and the fact that the paint in the engine compartment is in pretty nice shape it would be alot easier to keep the factory color, it runs great, and actually has quite a bit more horsies than I thought it would-from a 20mph roll I can blow the tires away---Still working on getting a video up of the exhaust should have something within the next few days its very unique and well lets just say the neighbors have become alot less freindly since I got it running

 

 

That car is a great excuse for an obsession. Keep.the stock color cause you dont see many see many like that. And it does look good especially with the white top. Man you r fast with the work. I wish i had that kind of time.
Really cool coronet!

 

I really dont have the time-it all goes back to the obsession, I manage a auto shop during the day-own a tanning salon(stop laughing-not some pretty boy) I work at night so after a 8-8 day I go home hang out with my kids and wife when they go to sleep I go back to the shop and hammer on the car till about 2 in the morning go home and do it all over again-now you see why my wife said I need help I explained a long night with progress on my car is the best mental help I can get

 

From the sounds a 904 is not going to last very long.

 

OLD Hot Rods need chrome !!!!!

 

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