1968 Charger: Budget bomber build

[r4sedan]

Very nice. Your going with the modern Hemi.

 

[70B5Cuda]

This one won't get a late model hemi

Floor pans are in....

 

[70B5Cuda]

Cabin floor spot welds all knocked down and dressed

Trunk floor is also in now

 

[91r/t]

Should do it flat green and a green or black vinyl roof! That'd be cool like a faded out old paint job but one color and green.

 

[MGKelly]

thanks for the photo's, this project is starting to look great!

 

[70B5Cuda]

After some straightening, the driver's side quarter panel end cap fits greats now. before and after...

The driver's side quarter also had rust on in front of the rear wheel well. It was patched inside and out...

 

[70B5Cuda]

Just below the previous patch....also in front of the left rear wheel...

 

[70B5Cuda]

Right quarter needed some straightening...

 

[70B5Cuda]

The area under the battery tray was rusty. Used a solid original donor...

 

[showard]

You have been busy! You are doing a great job and everything is looking good.

 

[70B5Cuda]

Thanks Showard!

A previous owner cut out part of the passenger side wheel tub...apparently for a patch.

 

[70B5Cuda]

The left quarter panel patch was AMD and needed trimming since it was too long-see the first picture.

 

[70B5Cuda]

Right quarter panel patch...

 

[70B5Cuda]

Rear valance and trunk braces are in...

 

[70B5Cuda]

Next step is to remove some of the dents, dings, and creases. The right quarter panel was definitely the worst but the dutchman's panel had some big dings and the passenger quarter had a few too.

 

[70B5Cuda]

Time for some rear window channel rust repair. It's interesting that this charger didn't have one spec of rust in the lower channel. The rear lower corners had a few pinholes. I'm sure that it's because the rear window had been out of the car for 20 plus years. But....there were some small holes in the upper channel.

There were also a few pinholes in the trunk gutters where the forward gutter (dutchman's panel) overlapped with the side gutters

 

[daytona kid]

Your doing the fun stuff now, Great work! Great pics also!.. I did most all of the same stuff on my 68 that your doing, that we all do on the crusty ones.. I really enjoyed that part. Makes me want to do another one. Depending on how much you did in the corners of the window and if you haven't already, you may want to put your rear window chrome/ss trim together, with tape, and lay it in place to check your corners. If you have original trim, you usually can see exactly how far the trim pieces go together, one into the other, by looking on the back/inside of the trim pieces where there should some stain marks from age. This will give you a good check without messing with the glass.

 

[70B5Cuda]

A few more cleanup items on the battery trey area and a big dent on the leading edge of the roof

Back side in bare metal and then in primer...

 

[70B5Cuda]

The rear valance corners just didn't want to fit. As you can see, they gap on the forward edge and they don't line up with the tail panel character line either. Hopefully this series of pictures can help some future builders.

A section was cut out. The piece was rotated slightly and welded back in. The rotation created a small "pie slice" shaped gap at the forward edge.

Next the rear valance was sliced along the top to again bring the edge out

 

[70B5Cuda]