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69 Super Bee Rebuild (my way)

As a matter of fact, I did. Kind of why I dont mind undercoating. In a year from now it will be covered in road grime and shreads of my tires anyways.
Glad your going to drive it like it was meant to be driven!
 
Glad your going to drive it like it was meant to be driven!
For some it may be ok to have a trailer queen to look at, but that does nothing for me. I so enjoy driving these old cars - takes me back in time to the early 80's when I got my license. Good memories!
 
What a great feeling! 5 hours this morning with sealer, paint, and clear. I don't know how you body guys do this kind of work every day. I have had enough and think I will stick with my HVAC stuff. Surely not perfect, but at least I can say I did it myself. This is the last of the work I am doing on the body. Buddy of mine has it scheduled to go to his shop in July for bodywork and paint.

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People have different versions of perfection. I think it looks perfect from here.
Good enough for who it is for. One nice run in the clear and 1/4 of a fingerprint where I decided to check to see if it was dry a bit to early. Adds a little character imo.
 
That paint looks good. Makes you no want to close the trunk.
Yeah, I am excited to see the whole car painted in this color. It really pops out in the sun.
 
My one time painting the wheel wells on my Coronet in primer ended up with more primer on the garage floor than on the car LOL. Thank God the quarters are covering that mess.
 
Hey Hunt, man that paint looks really good!
At this point, I plan on keeping that same factory color (T5) for my charger, and looking at your pics makes me like it even more!
 
Reminds me of being a kid. I could never resist touching a freshly painted model car.
Good enough for who it is for. One nice run in the clear and 1/4 of a fingerprint where I decided to check to see if it was dry a bit to early. Adds a little character imo.
 
Finally got some free time to play in the shop and decided to tear into the heater box. I ended up grinding off the rivets for the dampers because the brackets were to rusty for me to live with. Wasn't about to buy the correct tool to install the factory style rivets, so I used some aluminum blind expandables that worked out really good. They don't look correct, but to me that is far better than rusty brackets. Sand blasted all the metal and painted with the stainless paint that DMT recommended. I didn't really care for that though and think if I do another I will use detail gray from Eastwood instead. Wanted to keep the white strand looking things in the fiberglass body, so just cleaned that up good with Simple Green. Had to make a few repairs, but nothing that will show when installed. I did splurge for a rubber stamp to get the numbers back on the front plate. Even stamped it crooked like it was originally.

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Just saw this thread today,
can't believe how far it's come in a couple months
let alone the quality & detailed work, in that time frame

looks like it's a really nice car
it will be a really, really nice Super Bee

I like the color choice too,
like you're gonna' drive it like it's meant to be

outside of the (68) surf turquoise metallic on Plymouths
the Bronzes & the Burnt Oranges are my personal MoPar favorites

I will check in from time to time
gave you a couple of thanks & likes along the way while reading too
love it, licitly split job too, with an attention to quality & detail
 
This is the stamp and rivets I used if anybody is interested. The stamp came from a guy in Canada selling them on ebay.

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Got the k-frame taken care of. Even though I think Firm Feel charges to much for their stiffening kits, I bought another one from them. I told them to keep their goofy skid plate that comes in the kit because it is a terrible reproduction. They must have heard that before, because they gave me a few bucks off without hesitation.
My friend Al who is a Hemi nut and custom fabricates Hemi k-frames and Hemi engine brackets also make skid plates. He does an awesome job on them. He sells his stuff all over the States. Old school guy who doesn't have the internet or a smart phone. Everything is word of mouth. He was the only place you could buy these until recently, now they are reproduced and sold from several vendors.

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