The first time i posted this car the Bigblockdart web site went down and my car pics were gone and Bill spent days working on the site so i waited to post it agin hopfull with a better outcome. so here it is it started life as a 68 barracuda 383 S 4 speed car i bought it 10 year ago with no drive tran. I replaced the cage and had the dana built when i got the car the chassis guy was suppose to fix the old frame work but did not do it. so i was on my own there i got a pair of S&W floor fit frame rails (lol) and tryed to fit them in the car with the intention to keep what i could of the floor but that just didnt work out. So now the car has to be rolling so i can get it to a chassis guy to replace the rear down tubes on my cage and go over my welds
Yeah the chassis guy is going to put in a shock mount tube for it and run the rear down tubes to the back of the car i have all new 1/4 panels and front floor pans for it just want the chassis done first
Got my car back from the chassis guy he put the new rear down tubes in it and x-brace with shock mounts (only 1 per side i asked him about it he said it would be fine) now i just need to wipe up a qick car dolly so i can get the body work done i have 2 rust holes not to bad at all but both 1/4ers and the floor pans will take a bit
Well starting to get some work done on my car so I`m going to post a few picks I welded up all the holes in the floor yesterday and pained it the plan is to Lizard Skin it down the road and today I cut one of the 1/4s off my friend is coming next week to help me get the new one lined up and clecoed on so i can start welding on it hope to keep moving forward from here till i get to mockup i think i have all the parts to put it back together to see how it all fits
The dana was out of a f250 truck it was an open rear i had it narrowed and 4.56 gears and a posi put in it with moser axles im not sure what posi is in it it may be a stock posi
Got the passenger side 1/4 on today after i spent 30min knocking the big dent my knee put in it im hoping to have it welded up tomorrow can`t wait to get the other side on it i`ve been looking at those blown out wheel wells for 10 years LOL
Got some filler on the 1/4 this weekend i need to get a longer durablock so i can smooth it out better before i do anymore sanding or filling i was going to start the others side but its nice to be able to use it to see how to shape the new side the old metal stayed pretty straight but the new panel was thinner and was more destorted by the welding
Man mixing body filler in south Fl. is a pain in the azz one day it goes of before i can get it on the car the next im setting on a bucket waiting for it to harden so i can sand it but if it were easy everyone would have one
I try to make it easy on my self and go with the original color Red with a White strip down the side thats the way it rolled out of the factory I found traces of the strip when I was stripping the doors
Got most of the body primed today there is still alot of work to do on this metal but i`m sick of body work so i`m going to weld the new lower rad. core support on and start mock up
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