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Hi just had the car wet sanded and polished, man i thought it look good be for. The guy spent 5 days on it

Nearly blinded me it's so bright!

WOW !!!! That's looking beautifull !!!!

Is the assembly line at Hamtramck still alive and kicking? Your pic´s will be on my mind when I go to bed tonight....

very nice.. that grill looks awesome, I am doing mine next, any tips on how you refinished your handles and grill. ?

BRADGROTT wrote:any tips on how you refinished your handles

They look like the E-body Barracuda reproductions you can get new. If so they do not quite fit the door curve as well as original Challenger handles.

I think I am also correct to say they should be painted flat (matt) black in the finger opening??

Thanks guys ,my buddy and i are trying to make a nice driver. Just kidding . Hi dave .The door handles are challenger not repops for cuda.they were restored by jules the wiperman from montreal canada .He also did our wiper motor heater box,and steering colum. his work is second to none.Hi Bradgrott thanks for the comment on the grill .My buddy and i took the grill apart found the proper rivets cleaned ,striped and painted all the parts and dipped the egg creat in a cleaner. if you need the names of the cleaner i can check for you , and paint colors. Thanks and take care. Steve

If those door handles are refinished originals I take my hat off to him!

VERY good work. Top class.

Looks absolutely fantastic mate! TOP job!

71 pacecar wrote: if you need the names of the cleaner i can check for you , and paint colors. Thanks and take care. Steve

It would be cool if you did list the products used to get that grille like that. I certainly would be interested because mine looks terrible compared to that.

Hi dave here is a list and pics of the products we used on the grill. Sorry it took so long.We had a argent grill and used an auto paint striper.And then drilled out all the rivets ,take the egg creat and soak it in Alum-brite HD.make sure you do not leave it on to long .rinse water repeat if needed the alum brite will foam on the grill . A lot of truckers use it on alum gas tanks on there trucks. The rivets you can get from petes Restoration see pics .The paint is from penstar reporductions hope this helps. Steve

Cheers for that.

project r/t is coming along very nicely guys. looking forward to seeing it next year.

Hi we put the motor in on sunday it's starting to look like a car .

WHOA!! That's one high quality restoration!

Love it, here' s a quick shot of how mine is looking at the moment.


Cheers and keep up the great work.

Car looks great i love the white . Our next project mite be a white car,lets see some more shots

This is all I have, I have more but nothing worth showing.
In the next couple of weeks REAL progress like interior, grille windows etc will be going in.

Nice job looks good

Thanks mate!

Any more photos to share Steve?

Hey Gord: Thanks for asking! Here are our most recent shots I have. Steering column went in last Wednesday,shifter linkage and kick-down linkage went in today. I picked up some more peices of the puzzle from Glenn yesterday. It's starting to look like a car.

Dave ( of Steve and Dave )

Very nice! By the looks of it you should be done real soon.
The hard part will be for you two to figure out who gets to drive it and when.

Wow, console shifter on a R/T Rare and cool if you ask me.

Hi Gord, thanks,the car is almost done, just a few small things to do .We still have to start it .Dave said Glenn is working on the HEMI car. I can't wait to see that one done .

Chirster, I am not sure of the #'s on column shift cars in R/T's but I think it's pretty rare .This is the only column shift car in this color combo .

Usually you got a column shift if you ordered a bench seat. Which is why a bench seat was extra cost. You do see the occasional R/T (all models) with a column shift but it is very rare.

gday
i dont want to sound to ignorant but is that colour sublime & also that stripe across the bum i notice daves car has the same stripe what are the specs for that i.e width of stripes etc. mine might get 1 they look cool even though mines not an r/t but who cares as long as it looks cool hey
cheers ian

It is called a bumble bee stripe and it was a no charge extra on the R/T. Dodges performance cars were part of the "Scat Pack" who's symbol was the "Super Bee".

Details of the stripe are possible already on here in the bodywork section. Try the search facility. It might turn up that way.

ianandjess wrote:i dont want to sound to ignorant but is that colour sublime & also that stripe across the bum i notice daves car has the same stripe what are the specs for that i.e width of stripes etc. mine might get 1 they look cool even though mines not an r/t but who cares as long as it looks cool

http://challenger.mpoli.fi/forum/viewto ... 6127#16127

Why am I doing this? They will never learn to use the search feature if I keep on doing it? Stupid me!

Actually there is a few topics covering that. Including one that mentions a painting template kit from year one.

Oh and yes. I would say that looks like Sublime paint.

Hi guys, yes it is sublime with a top banana bumble bee stripe . This is 1 of 4 cars built in this combo known to exist, one was a slant 6 ,one is a 383 ,one 440 4 speed dana car and ours is a 440 numbers matching ,on the column.The code is FJ5 V9Y . This was a dealer ordered car .Thanks for the interest. Steve