I had been searching for a Charger to restore for some time and when this Charger was put up on EBay with the rare color combo listed on the fender tag I knew I had to get it. I won the auction for $8600.00 and had it shipped to me in Southern California. Here are …
Here’s a brief history of the car that I’ve gathered from the build sheet and the fender tag The car was built on Jan 16, 1969 at the Hamtramck, MI Plant with a 440 Magnum V8 375 Horsepower engine. Here is a pic of the Fender tag (this is bolted to the frame of the …
Took the car to my mechanic who is going to rebuild the engine and transmission completely from the ground up. Here are some pic’s You can see the casting date of the engine – 10/28/68 – which would make it a correct date for the car, plus the casting number is the correct number for …
Update on the progress so far. The Carb, Intake and Exhaust manifolds should be in this week, the engine and tranny is still in the shop getting rebuilt. Have a few pic’s of the dismantling so far.
The shop has started to strip the paint off of the body and I got a look at the floorboard which looks like it’s in excellent condition. As you can see, there has been some prior bondo on a few spots. The gauge cluster is done and on it’s way back. Here is a before …
The engine is coming along nicely, take a look at the below pic’s of it so far. She’s cleans up nice! Plus, I finally confirmed this is a number matching engine….this is a pic of the my car’s vin stamped onto the engine…..YES! And here is a pic of the Carb I received, Carter AVS …
I sent the console to Jason Pfeifer in PA, a guy who is known for restoring console’s. I send it via UPS packaged well and he got it today all busted up….take a look at this. Basically beyond repair. Now I have to go fight it out with UPS and start looking for another console, …
After dealing with UPS it looks like I will be getting some money back from the console since I took out insurance. Decided to take the plunge and get a fiberglass one made up by Stinger Fiberglass. The console will be sent to Jason Pfeifer so he can match the color and put all my …
Checked out the progress on the media blasting of the body. Pic’s below The gauge cluster is done also, check out the new pic’s, first one is the before pic
Got the charger back from the sandblasters and then had the metal coated with some Metal Protector while the body work is done. Sandblasting is great but it does show you where all the rust is, even the stuff you didn’t know you had. Means more money to put into it but at least you …