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This is my little brothers car.... he was 13 (17 in 2 week) and bought from a mate of my dads....... wants a resto but aint too bad tbh..... theres a little bit of welding wanted on floorpan and a bit of fibreglass work to do...
this is a resto thread so i will be updatin quite regularly once we have been workin on it...
first thing we did was free up its brakes and tow it home.....
we then stripped all of the shite from the inside.... loads of carpet... sponge... fabrics.... a shitty old telly.... allsorts..... lol
then we gave it a wash so i can take some pics to play about with in photoshop to come up with ideas.....
didnt do too much to it cos it was 8pm and all the mosquitos were out
removed the doors
took the seats out,
took off the jaguar fuel filler cap,
removed the fuel tank,
removed all of the excess carpet, rubber, sponge, all the shit basically.... and found a gaping hole in the floorpan.... o well.
removed the windows....
stripped everything else from the car just about, disconnected the steering column from the beam..
freed up the engine lid as it was seized solid..
opened up the boot and found out that it has air horns
[IMG]http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll11/notchnut/Rorys%20Charger/DSC00042.jpg
will be wire brushin the chassis and beam this week, strippin it off all the rust and applyin some paint, except where were goin to be welding......
we will have to see. cheers for lookin!
My dad and brother did some more to the charger while i was at work yesterday, finished off stripping and painting the chassis, painted the gearbox and stripped the front brakes down.
finally been able to get this thing prepped for paint and painted this weekend. now just needs buffing up, trimming inside, wiring and the engine stuck in
right here we go, bit of progress on this now house extension is all done and my stupid car has a working engine.
I took the dash to work and trimmed it in some nice carpet that will stand out from what were gonna trim rest of carpet in. dash is dark blue/ can hardly tell its blue, rest of the trim is gonna be a dark grey.
tubing for cables has now been run ready to start stringing cables through, all sealed up and out of the way hidden in the body. random holes that were in the body have been blanked off using ally, rivets and sikaflex such as the big one at the front where a massive heater was that was no use. speaker box at the back is taking shape and will soon be ready to be trimmed and put together.
were gonna be working on this quite a bit now we have garage back
looms all ready to go in, just needs taping up and running to where it needs to be now. cd player also been removed from sooty van and put in the dash.
the engines half built, were tryin to get everything done the car n then crack on with the engine over a weekend or two once everything else is done.
got all cables strung through to where they need to be.
dash board and stereo in.
centre tunnel trimmed
steering column and wheel in.
mi dads been busy stringin everything properly, tidyin cables and puttin fuse box and stuff in.
