Rusty's Roadrunner

[eagleone1983]

Well now that I'm a little over a year into it, I've finally decided to start a restoration thread. Everything except the paint and body work I've done in my garage from a book or from the help of everyone here. Thanks to all that help out. And now for the pics, here is what it was when I bought it, minus the rims and tires.

 

[eagleone1983]

And the body work begins...

Here is the start of the body work. both quarters, outer wheelhouses, rear window corners, rear crossmember, front driver/pass floor pans, one spot on the driver side inner fender where the hood hinge is, and trunk extensions all had to be replaced.

 

[eagleone1983]

back on the ground

Got the car off the rotissiere after tons of sand, scraping, blood, and sweat. Reundercoated the bottom while it was on the rotissiere. After rebuilding the rearend and upgrading it with a sure-grip, 3.55 gears, and a little powdercoating. I reinstalled it, then I put dollys under the wheels, I didn't realize how fricken hard it is to move the car once you put a sure-grip in it. Oh and also painted the rear drums red since that's the way I found them.

 

[okiemopar]

Looking Good

You have got it looking good. I just got thru getting mine done but it took me 8 yrs. I went thru a divorce and moving untill I got resettled. But we sure are enjoying it now just got to get all the little stuff worked out on it. You'll have it done bfore you know it. Ronnie

 

[roadrunnerman]

it is looking good.i'm going to paint my drums orange.doing that just seems to set evrything right IMO.

 

[eagleone1983]

Got her on all fours again!

Since my last update, I've gotten the engine bay painted and all the front suspension installed plus the steering gear box.

 

[blackblazer717]

Lookin good dude. You paint the chassis body color ??? I like it

 

[moparsteve636]

Coming along nicely!

 

[eagleone1983]

The paint just goes down to the pinch weld from the firewall to the floor. Behind that was sealed, primed and undercoated. The front frame rails also got paint everywhere where you could see

 

[684door]

looks great, what kind of tires and rims are you useing, im looking for something like those

 

[eagleone1983]

They are BFG Radial T/As and Crager SS wheels. I like the tires but I actually wish I would have gone with something else in the way of wheels. Reason being is they are heavy but even though it seems everybody has them I don't think many other style wheels look as good. When I bought the car it had some old school aluminum slotted mags on it but they needed to be blasted and were way to wide for the tires I'm running but I liked how light they were.

 

[dickdale]

nice project!

 

[shag766]

sure lookin good. you will be proud:headbang:

 

[eagleone1983]

Sure will. Everything but the body and paint will have been done by me; except for specialty things like the rearend, engine machining, and such. I did all the powdercoating with my friends giant oven and component repair in my small two car garage. I'll tell you what it's nice to start getting parts back on her, I was running out of places to walk in the garage.

 

[shag766]

lesson learned

Sure will. Everything but the body and paint will have been done by me; except for specialty things like the rearend, engine machining, and such. I did all the powdercoating with my friends giant oven and component repair in my small two car garage. I'll tell you what it's nice to start getting parts back on her, I was running out of places to walk in the garage.

been there done that and still there. i really screwed up doing 2 projects at once. never again.

 

[eagleone1983]

Still don't have the car back from paint yet but in the mean time I did get the seats finished. Here's a before and after

 

[eagleone1983]

Once I get the seats installed I still need to pull down the passenger side cover a little bit, you can kind of see the piping is kind of wavy.

 

[kdtjb]

Nice, real nice!

 

[Donny]

Nice indeed! T7 color?

 

[Ron 73]

Real nice! Thats a great color your doing it in..