A little help with Charger rear corner replacement.

[747mopar]

It's been years since I put this car together so I can't remember how these things go in?? 2 questions, how in the hell do you get to the pinch weld where it attaches to the quarter and where does the dangly piece at the bottom go? I assume when I built the car I may have welded the corners to the quarter prior to assembly? The dangly thing... Maybe it's still in the pinch weld where the trunk extension meets the quarter?

 

[daytona kid]

I think those have to go in prior to some of the other pieces they connect to. I trimmed a lot off some of the tabs to get them in/to fit. I tried to get them close to factory looking but ended up welding and filling up the seams.

 

[747mopar]

I think those have to go in prior to some of the other pieces they connect to. I trimmed a lot off some of the tabs to get them in/to fit. I tried to get them close to factory looking but ended up welding and filling up the seams.

I'll be welding the seams solid as well, I don't care much for the original look.. looks like they ran out of ideas and just glued them on.

 

[chargervert]

I would not weld up the seams,it automatically gives people the impression that the car is a bondo bucket! Take your time,and fit them properly. Sometimes it requires modifying the rear quarter and the ends of the rear crossmember. Don't weld anything before proper fitment is achieved.

 

[747mopar]

I would not weld up the seams,it automatically gives people the impression that the car is a bondo bucket! Take your time,and fit them properly. Sometimes it requires modifying the rear quarter and the ends of the rear crossmember. Don't weld anything before proper fitment is achieved.

They are properly fitted and fully welded. Fitting it properly wasn't the concern, getting to a pinch weld that is unaccessible at this stage was the problem. I replaced the whole rear end of this car a few years ago, quarters, rear valance, tail light panel, trunk floor, etc... then my wife backed into it and then my dumbass backed into my daily driver so this is just repair work.

Like I said I don't like the factory look and it's far from a correct build, if people want to say it's full of mud when it's actually welded cleanly needing almost no mud then that's their problem not mine lol.

 

[daytona kid]

They are properly fitted and fully welded. Fitting it properly wasn't the concern, getting to a pinch weld that is unaccessible at this stage was the problem. I replaced the whole rear end of this car a few years ago, quarters, rear valance, tail light panel, trunk floor, etc... then my wife backed into it and then my dumbass backed into my daily driver so this is just repair work.

Like I said I don't like the factory look and it's far from a correct build, if people want to say it's full of mud when it's actually welded cleanly needing almost no mud then that's their problem not mine lol.

I totally agree, especially since after studying your thread so much years ago, I know about most of all the other nice custom touches you've done on your car, similar to some I've copied/done also. BUT if I were restoring a very rare or very valuable car I'd stay as pure as possible, like chargervert said.

 

[Demonic]

It's your car, do what you like. Charger guys look for the filled seams there and are unmerciful in their comments.

 

[Richard Cranium]

It's your car, do what you like. Charger guys look for the filled seams there and are unmerciful in their comments.

As we should be.

 

[chargervert]

I went easy on them, I could have said do you want a trowel for your corners!

 

[747mopar]

I went easy on them, I could have said do you want a trowel for your corners!

Same ol **** as always, purist attitude towards anything outside of what they deem as "right". Same old copycat, carbon copy boring *** builds, see one you've seen them all but the difference is I don't knock you guys. Move on..

I'll post a picture before any filling takes place, I can even illustrate with a straight edge too if you like?

 

[chargervert]

Yep,my convertible Charger and Daytona stock car are the same old cookie cutter builds! I am just saying that if you blend in the corners, you will get scrutiny from people about it. It's your car do what you see fit, but when you hear someone say it remember that I told you so! I have been building second generation Chargers for 40 years, and I have seen an heard it all! In 1985,I scaled up a pile of crushed cars in a junkyard to remove a pair of the valence corners with a hammer and a chisel because they were not available from Dodge anymore, and no reproduction valence corners were made. I was pretty proud of having good valence corners with nice seams,it was unheard of in New England in 1985. They were all mudded over by that time.

 

[daytona kid]

Yep,my convertible Charger and Daytona stock car are the same old cookie cutter builds! I am just saying that if you blend in the corners, you will get scrutiny from people about it. It's your car do what you see fit, but when you hear someone say it remember that I told you so! I have been building second generation Chargers for 40 years, and I have seen an heard it all! In 1985,I scaled up a pile of crushed cars in a junkyard to remove a pair of the valence corners with a hammer and a chisel because they were not available from Dodge anymore, and no reproduction valence corners were made. I was pretty proud of having good valence corners with nice seams,it was unheard of in New England in 1985. They were all mudded over by that time.

You really should look at 727's build thread and I think you'd realize you are very wrong. Nobody with any sense would ever say anything about something a trivial as that after seeing the car and all the other things he has done to it that are far from stock and very ingenious. If all cars were stock it would be a pretty boring world, don't you think? I don't think he's running skinny bias ply tires either, lol..