Dean's 68 Charger project (Updated Pics)

Dino · Post by **Dino** » Sat Jun 25, 05 6:16 pm

Here's my Charger as she stands tonight. As you can see I'm in the middle of painting the floor and as soon as I've finished kitting out the new garage with tools, benches etc I'll be starting the resto' and asking you guys a million and one questions!!

Hopefully going to the AACUK show tomorrow so I may see a few of you there

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Sat Jun 25, 05 6:51 pm

sweet looking charg there mate ask away with the questions thats what we are here for and dont forget those project progress pics

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Sat Jun 25, 05 7:06 pm

great colour for the floor won't show the blood sweat and tears.

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Sun Jun 26, 05 5:09 pm

fantastic!! another welsh 68 charger owner, got any specs on the car???

GTXJim · Post by **GTXJim** » Sun Jun 26, 05 10:19 pm

What I'd give for a garage that size

Dino · Post by **Dino** » Mon Jun 27, 05 2:56 pm

The car was originally a 383 auto but someone has started to restore it, not sure if it was in UK or US though. It looks like whoever done it wasn't worried about getting the spares for it as they've hacked off all the hoses and the wiring looms

They have however dropped in a 440 and a 4 speed!!! And I mean literally dropped, nothing is connected at all. The tunnel has already had the manual part welded in for the shifter and all the pedals are in. Not sure what's been done to the box yet but as you can see behind the front wheel in the photo it's gleaming orange so hopefully someone has recon'd it and give it a lick of paint as well. Until I get the motor out I've no idea if it's been modded at all (I doubt it) but I can tell you it's got the Carter Thermo Quad Carb which I might keep on there for a while. I read somewhere that they're not all that bad, is that right?

The body is quite solid, the boot floor has gone but it came with 2 brand new panels and at some point it's had a rear quarter and will possibly need a new one on the drivers side. Overall though it's not as rusty as I had expected, maybe because it's from California.

Jim, the garage is 18'x25' and it still looks small when the Charger's in there!!! Not as bad as the original garage though, have a look at my webpage. I'm still amazed by g/f let me have the car let alone the garage as well.

Thanks for the interest guys

Dino · Post by **Dino** » Thu Mar 27, 08 1:36 pm

Here's some progress pics of the Charger. Going through a bit of a rough patch at the moment so the project is on stop again. The Mrs dropped a bombshell that she had secret debts of nearly 40k, as you can imagine the divorce papers have gone off and hopefully the money I get from re-mortgaging will be pumped into the car.

The guys I work with spent nearly 4 weeks solid on the bodywork and it's turned out alot better than I thought possible. The final pics are from my phone hence the duff quality.

Dino · Post by **Dino** » Thu Mar 27, 08 1:37 pm

Last Two

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Thu Mar 27, 08 1:42 pm

Nice one

Ivor · Post by **Ivor** » Thu Mar 27, 08 1:44 pm

Crikey, I love the way you nonchalantly dropped the bombshell into your post!

Got to admit the car looks great though!:shock:

steveo · Post by **steveo** » Thu Mar 27, 08 2:12 pm

looks great

..love to see more pictures

starsk's · Post by **starsk's** » Thu Mar 27, 08 2:20 pm

sorry if you already said and i have not spotted it
is the car black or dark green?looks great
sorry about your missis thats a hell of a lot of shoes she brought

chin up though
starsk's

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Thu Mar 27, 08 3:16 pm

Lovely job mate. Nice one

TYREMAN · Post by **TYREMAN** » Thu Mar 27, 08 3:44 pm

Nice one

good luck with it mate.

bananaskin · Post by **bananaskin** » Thu Mar 27, 08 7:55 pm

Nice

Keep going and good luck