1969 Charger 340

[Bighouse]

A little paint in the closed in areas today!!

Please excuse my crude express masking job!!!

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[Bighouse]

This is how I treat inner quarters, helps save a lot of material and protect those areas well.
I applied 2 coats of sealers, then I just dust in a light coat of base. Followed by reducing activated clear almost 1:1. Thins it out and kills the excessive gloss a bit.
Other areas potentially seen are painted properly.

 

[Bighouse]

Got everything in weld-thru on the edges, and put some dampening material in. I’ll be welding soon.

 

[Bighouse]

Not much today- found a little time to get a couple tubes of seam sealer on the floors.

A while back I removed all the old sealer it was cracked and loose. My floors were in good shape, I wire wheeled a few spots and touched them up kinda replicating the original coloring. No need to paint the entire thing.
My goal is to make a nice car I’m not afraid of. I’ve been down the nut and bolt resto road and it makes for a car I have a hard time enjoying.

 

[Bighouse]

Starting to weld it all together!

 

[Bighouse]

Nice gaps!

 

[Bighouse]

Lots of welding and grinding- coming together fast!

 

[Bighouse]

Picked up another welder today. I’ve been looking for this exact one for some time now! Came with everything!!!

I’m pretty excited!

 

[Bighouse]

I’m almost there! Running out of things to weld. I have the 2 quarter window rear corner brackets and a little work to do on the roof seams!
This evenings progress, rear bumper supports. I tried to mimic the factory’s sloppy welds:

 

[xs-ivv]

Nice job. The metal work looks awesome!

 

[Bighouse]

Pulled the windshield, I have a new one on the way. A little rust in the lower channel.

I’ll weld that all up. And repaint the top of the dash too. I’m going to use some 2k Hotrod black.

 

[Bighouse]

Taking down for epoxy. I do not trust the coating on these parts

 

[Bighouse]

Had a hard time getting red oxide color epoxy from my usual big names. I’ve read good things about SPI on various forums so I tried their epoxy. Very nice so far.

 

[Bighouse]

 

[Bighouse]

Stripping the roof. Minor rust. Made 4 little holes with a pick. Welded those up and and cleaning the rest with some phosphoric acid.

 

[The Rebel]

Coming along very nice and looking great!

 

[Bighouse]

Cleaning up nice!

Before and after

More tomorrow!

 

[Nxcoupe]

That acid is the only sure fire way to treat rust before priming.

 

[Bighouse]

Been busy with some filler work on the sail panels and some epoxy. Blocked the roof and tops of the 1/4s, polyester puttied some spots, sealed the drip rails and epoxied it again this evening. Looking good!

 

[Bighouse]

Got the gas tank in this evening