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What did you do to your Mopar today?

I finally finished the restoration on my 68 GTX!!!!! Am now in Minnesota where the car is for the holidays so I could take possession of her. I put her on a flat bed and brought her to a friends heated storage garage where she'll sit out the winter before I bring her out to California to live with me in the land of endless summer.

The he paint on the car turned out beautiful. I'm sooooo excited to get the car out to CA and drive it on a regular basis. It's been too many years.
 
That's cool GetX'ed, i know that your excited. Enjoy her.


I got out in the garage for a couple of hours finally and was able to get an objective look at the position of the dash in relation to the big Coronet doors. Trying to see a way to position the thing so i'll be able to open the wing windows at least part way. Looks like it's no dice though. I decided to move the thing forward towards the windshield another 4 inches. The distance under the bottom edge to the end of the foot well was to far to sit comfortably. This also moved the defrost vents right up under the bottom edge of the glass and the vents at each end of the dash even with the A pillars. The ends of the dash now line up better with the door portions of the dash lines too.
I realized that I was complicating the mounting of the dash frame to the cowl/firewall unnecessarily by trying to use the two Audi mounting brackets. Without them i can just weld a tab to the car that can be bolted through the frame tab instead of the mount body. Much easier ans so I fabbed up a plate that will weld to the inside curve of the cowl under the inside edge of the windshield on each end that then twists 180 degrees to bolt through the dash frame. Also the mounting plate that i already fabbed for the drivers end just needed to be cut down to to fit the new position. So, all in all i think the new position will work out a little better.
 
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Is that the roadrunner that RC has been showing. He said it was being shipped to him in Mass. Didn't say from where - white 68 RR. Sweet car. Must have been hard to sell that baby. It's going to a good home.
 
GetX'd said:
He said it was being shipped to him in Mass. Didn't say from where
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That's because if I said that I got it from Santa in Florida, no one would believe me.


But, back to the topic of this thread; I finally got the windshield & back glass installed in the Charger yesterday. All that's left is to install the wiper arms & make some minor adjustments.
 

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Placed my order for all of the parts to my 8-3/4". I found some twist in the 30 spline axles a few weeks ago, so went to 35-splines and a spool. As long as it was apart, I also decided to take the step from 3.91's to 4.10's. Lastly, Also ordered a new set of Mickey Thompson Sportsman S/T street tires. :). Pretty good day for the car, pretty tough day on the bank account.
 
That would be the one. I was hard to part with it for sure.
GetX'd said:
Is that the roadrunner that RC has been showing. He said it was being shipped to him in Mass. Didn't say from where - white 68 RR. Sweet car. Must have been hard to sell that baby. It's going to a good home.
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Painted said hemi......
Lots of taping, etch primer, and three good coats of street-hemi orange.

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Drove it to work. Seems to run better with the mechanical fuel pump. Hard to explain. Starts and runs better cold, hot, and in between.
 
I didn't do jack on my Mopar cause I'm busy doing stuff for other guy's Mopars! Good thing I can tinker with it on the weekends, unless I have to go to my uncle's and work on his 70' RR or my dad's 70' Challenger RT.

Anyone want to help me wrench on mine? LOL!
 
Put new repo center caps on my rallye wheels yesterday, so while they where off I decided to give my rear brakes an adjustment and found the cable to the star wheel adjuster wrapped around my axle, the cable looked perfect so it must not have been like that very long, put everything back and adjusted and hoping for the best at this point.
 
I really like the qtr windows/roof on 72 SE's.

Buttoned-up part of the 6.4...for now. She's very ORANGE.

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what did i do to my 67 GTX today? NOTHING ,had to work but i thought about it a dozen times. Gathering parts , going to build a new drive shaft with 1350 Spicer joints Strange yokes. picked up a pair of Moser axles and a set of MT Drag radialsgtxxxxxx.jpg
 
I sent a new pattern out for my friend to make a new motor-plate for my silver car. Worked on the sub assembly for the other project..........

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