69Vorhaden
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Howdy all, I'm circling back on a project I parked in 1989.....Yepp still has the plates on it from 1989. It was my first car and I drove the wheels off of it! ....or at least untill the engine gave out. Thrust bearing on the crank was used up--The crank would travel forward and backwards about an 1/8 of an inch when giving the engine RPMs. I parked it and pulled the 383 to check the damage and discovered the crank had chewed up the thrust bearing and got into the bloc and cap---It was questionable to rebuild. So I pushed it into an old barn at my parent's place in Wyoming for ....Damn....37 years.
The car has been in my family since it was bought off of the showroom floor by my great uncle. I remember him telling me he didn't drive it much living in AZ because it didn't have AC. Sometime about 1979 he sold it to my parents who drove it for a while as a grocery getter and then gave it to my older sister to drive to college. She didn't like the car because it was "too expensive" to buy gas for. My parents regifted it to me for my high school graduation present and I have many memories and road trips in that car to include wrinkling the right front fender while delivering pizzaa and 120mph road trips at 0300 in the morning. Ironically the car rolled off the assembly line the same month I was born.
I recently picked up a salvaged 2018 6.4 Hemi Charger. Some lady drove it under the back end of a tractor trailer and almost surgically scalped the hood and half the cabin off without major damage to the drive train. I pulled my 69 coronet out of storage and my body guy disassembled it looking for rust and problems and is doing some fender work...No rust in the trunk or floor pans. Just some cancer under the vinyl top on the C-pillars. I having him do a few other custom bits and get it into primer so I can start into my bit of transplanting the 6.4. I've already seen a few threads about hemi transplants on here so time to see what works as I get the ole girl back to daily driver status.
There may be some choice drivetrain parts left over with this project like the torqflight 727 and axle. Ill offer em up for those doing a more original resto
The car has been in my family since it was bought off of the showroom floor by my great uncle. I remember him telling me he didn't drive it much living in AZ because it didn't have AC. Sometime about 1979 he sold it to my parents who drove it for a while as a grocery getter and then gave it to my older sister to drive to college. She didn't like the car because it was "too expensive" to buy gas for. My parents regifted it to me for my high school graduation present and I have many memories and road trips in that car to include wrinkling the right front fender while delivering pizzaa and 120mph road trips at 0300 in the morning. Ironically the car rolled off the assembly line the same month I was born.
I recently picked up a salvaged 2018 6.4 Hemi Charger. Some lady drove it under the back end of a tractor trailer and almost surgically scalped the hood and half the cabin off without major damage to the drive train. I pulled my 69 coronet out of storage and my body guy disassembled it looking for rust and problems and is doing some fender work...No rust in the trunk or floor pans. Just some cancer under the vinyl top on the C-pillars. I having him do a few other custom bits and get it into primer so I can start into my bit of transplanting the 6.4. I've already seen a few threads about hemi transplants on here so time to see what works as I get the ole girl back to daily driver status.
There may be some choice drivetrain parts left over with this project like the torqflight 727 and axle. Ill offer em up for those doing a more original resto
