Family Tradition

[Propwash]

Saw the pic's Roger. Cool Roadrunner, and 24 years of having her, impressive!!
Like I said on your thread, looks like our cars share much of the same cancer. Definitly a great canidate for restoration. Can't wait to see your project unfold!

 

[roadrunnerman]

i've learned alot on how to do mine just tracking yours and matt's project.

 

[Propwash]

Good to hear someone else tried out that "beefing up" trick in that quarter area Dave.

I'll definitly keep you up to date when I fit up my moded 8 3/4 and install the cal trac system. I actually heard about the Cal Track System from the guy at the speed shop that's putting my rear end together. He works a lot with a bunch of NHRA superstock and prostock fellows that run them on their rides at home and their toys on the strip.

I also spoke with a few fellow owners of them around here and at racingjunk.com. Nothing but good things. I also spoke with a gentleman at Calvert Racing ( I believe Tim?), for about 20 minutes. Good guy, very helpful.

Sorry to hear about your new found prior damage and issue with the latch. I guess you know as well as I do there's always a can of worms to be opened with these cars. You tossed around the idea of changing out the jam? I suppose it depends on what you find when you tear her apart a bit more.

Hey Dave, toss up some pic's of your buddies 68' Coronet if you have any...Kinda prone to those cars myself for some odd reason :edgy:

 

[Propwash]

i've learned alot on how to do mine just tracking yours and matt's project.

I'm glad and i'm sure Matt does as well, that we could help out. Looks like you, Ben and Dave will be starting projects all around the same time...

kind of funny.......... Roadrunner in Michigan being restored..........Roadrunner in Wisconsin being restored...........Sport Satellite in Indiana being restored..........Roadrunner in Iowa being restored...............Roadrunner in Minnesota being restored...........

Ummmm, "The 68-69 Midwestern B-body Rust Belt Gang"...LOL

Someone should write an article or make a t-shirt on all this!

Just glad to be here and know there still is a lot of good folks out there like yourselves.......Cheers guys! :beerchug:

 

[detmatt1]

The Speed Channel has got nothing on us!.:grin:

 

[northerndave]

well prop, does this kind of work look familiar?

Lordy what a mess!! I tell ya we really put these cars on a fitness program when we cut the cancer out & put new tin in, it just makes you fee good don't it?

those are a few random pics from my photobucket account I ran across with a quick look this morning.

The poor car is still in primer and sits at someone elses shop now, I got busy with other projects, the owner wasn't pushing me too hard to get it done... I don't know. it just slipped through the cracks, good solid car now that needs a little skim coat, blocking & paint.

 

[northerndave]

found some before & after of the cracked sheetmetal area we were talking about.

 

[Propwash]

well prop, does this kind of work look familiar?

Lordy what a mess!! I tell ya we really put these cars on a fitness program when we cut the cancer out & put new tin in, it just makes you feel good don't it?

Definitley does Dave! And thanks for the pic's. Looks like you do some knock out work!

The cracked up quarter to jam edge is pretty much exactly what mine looks like now. Sure is a crying shame she's still sitting dead in a shop somewhere. At least she's at the point she is now and not rotting in a field somewhere!

 

[northerndave]

That car shed bucketloads of rust flakes, dirt & misc unidentifyable junk during tear down.

I even evicted a couple of mice on that job, I don't know what kind of damn mice they were but they were living inside the trunk lid, no kidding. They must have crawled up into the understructure near the trunk hinges, they had put stuffing & junk up inside right at the tail of the trunk lid. I had to cut out the tail section & make new patches for the trunk lid & when I opened the tail of the trink lid these guys were inside (dead already, maybe from heart atack from all the grinding going on lol!!)

here's one of the meese I evicted from the mopar.

Here's a replacement patch tacked in place. You can see a trunk floor center I grafted in from a donor car in this pic too.

pull some roof dents? G'damn oak trees huh?

 

[northerndave]

oh & hey, I was wrong earlier when I stated that I used the backing patch method on that cracked area by the door sill. After looking at the pictures I relived it a little in my head. I sort of rib or bridge welded the crack from the back side, perpendicular to the crack & ran welds bridging the crack hopefully adding some strength from the inside before stitching a little bead on the outside corner edge & grinding it.

 

[Propwash]

Hehehehehe! You've been served mouse! those little son of a bit**h's can really destroy things in a hurry. I actually caught one in my garage the other day running up the inside of my rear tire on the Coronet. Needless to say I now have enough R-Con to kill a herd of buffalo's.....Advised my friends not to bring pets over.....could get ugly!

Nice ingenuity on the roof dent! Using tools at hand to come to one common goal! sweet! Mother nature declared war on that old Dodge huh? Looks like you did a great job on the trunk lid lower lip! Trying to find a good lid for a 68' is like trying to find the Grail.

I catch what you're saying on that repair you did from the inside of the quarter. I can imagine that will hold up great! Going from just 20-22 guage sheetmetal to a full weld bridge that's probably (i'm guessing) 1/8" to 1/4", and then back filling on the outside. Good idea!

 

[northerndave]

Oh them mice are the enemy!! I try to school all the up & comers and friends on little tips like "leave your sun visors tipped down in the winter" and bounce dryer sheets, mothballs, poison, what ever it takes.

Hate it when you flip a sun visor down on an otherwise perfect headliner only to expose a big damn hole where they sat on the visor like a shelf & did their work.

here's what it looked like when I peeled the trunk lid rear panel open on both sides.

that's a lot of bad stinky crap to be hauling around inside your trunk lid, yuck!

the goal was to go from this:

to this:

mouse eviction was just an added bonus.

 

[Propwash]

Wow! Good Work!

Friggin Houdini Mice! Out of all the places to set up camp, they picked there? Brilliant!
There's just something about the total destruction of a rodent colony that makes a guy feel all warm and fuzzy inside..i'm with ya brother

 

[northerndave]

Oh i dunno about good work, I'm a redneck. My practices have evolved some since that project.
I look at your pictures in this thread and wow, you do nice clean work.

 

[Propwash]

Oh i dunno about good work, I'm a redneck. My practices have evolved some since that project.
I look at your pictures in this thread and wow, you do nice clean work.

I still say you did a great job! Fabing in your own section of body panel and making it look good..thats tough..

Appreciate the compliment! Now if I could lay off the Lennie's and Budweiser while working I could quit having rework by the end of the night..:grin:

 

[northerndave]

but what fun would that be?

 

[Propwash]

:cheers2:

 

[morbidgoat]

im with you guys on the mice issue last year i cleaned out my heater box and bench tested it all seemed good so i bolted it into the car this year when i brought the car back out of winter storage to begin work again i found a nice large nest (but no critters) in my heater box it made a big mess when i turned the heater on

and as for the "your work is better no yours is" type of comments everyone is their own worst critic

 

[morbidgoat]

sleep deprivation is another killer on working on these things after working in the garage for 12 plus hours you start to make some mistakes that even make the gerbil in your head stop running on his wheel and look at you and say DUH!!!

 

[northerndave]

I shouldn't poison your thread or this site for that matter with a pony car but it's because of this little car that I just finished for my baby girl (16) that I found myself back in the saddle and now working on my own car, and visiting & learning from this site.

How many high school girls drive something like this? :grin:

I can't wait till my old dirty bird is as straight & shiny as my daughter's little ford.

That little car ate up a heap of my time but it also got me back into the groove and lead to the purchase of my b-body. :grin: