just found serious rust on my front frame rails

[SureGrip]

Well, we have now moved to the read quarters and found just a little bit of bondo. It appears that it wasn't even a car.......it was a sculpture.....a big heave Torrid Red frickin sculpture.....View attachment 221755

Ohmydamn!

LOL, I've seen some stuff over the years, but that's just....wow.

 

[Robliepse]

Making progress, and it all started with a front end alignment in June 2014

 

[SureGrip]

 

[BrianM]

Here is what I did in 99. There were no amd parts back then.

 

[Robliepse]

Slow but steady progress



I added the picture of the dogs because it reminded me of summer

 

[Robliepse]

slow and lots of dead presidents

GTX is slowly raising from the grave, rust, rust then some more but we are fixing it right and its going to be Bad A [ATTACH

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I told the wife that all the cool kids had a K frame in their living room

 

[73Bitterbird]

Nice build,my wife would beat me to death for even thinking about bringing in my k-member,lucky you lol.

 

[Robliepse]

the k member parts just came back from powder coating is the only reason I got away with it

 

[Robliepse]

More pics for your viewing pleasure, it's only time and money

 

[satman72]

It's looking great. Nice work.

 

[Robliepse]

Getting closer

Finally back on 4 tires and getting closer

 

[Robliepse]

its only time and money

new frame rails are in and decided to replace the floor pan during the process. Why stop now........its only money and I can make more

 

[Robliepse]

Getting closer ?????

This will go down in history as one heck of a learning experience. At least it is one of the very few real 1972 RM23U GTX Roadrunners and it is going to be bad a$$ when it's completed. If I could hit reset I'd built a 1972 Satellite restomod and not worried about

 

[Homstead]

Sure is looking good! Keep up the good work!

 

[Robliepse]

Epoxy primer today

 

[super-bee_ski]

A couple of articles about the 'Auto Rust Technicians' frame repair covers.

http://autorust.com/m_torq.html

http://www.moparmusclemagazine.com/techarticles/mopp_0712_mopar_framerail_repair/viewall.html

Yeah, Auto rust technicians from my old home town of Rhode Island
They have cornered the market
Good reviews

The car looks great!

 

[Donny]

gaps look awesome!

 

[satman72]

She's looking great!

 

[Robliepse]

We decided to change both front rails

View attachment 298078

The rails came off the donar car and we found really good torque boxes and MoparMark provided some of the other partsView attachment 298083

 

[SureGrip]

Wow, so after getting so far with it, you ended up going back and chopping the whole front rail section out and replacing it?

That's balls...and dedication to making it right. Damn.