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1973 Plymouth Road Runner Resto

Dougs73RR

Dougs73RR

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Rebuilding the rusty rusty body on my buddy's 1973 Road Runner - Looking for any feed back that will help with this project
I posted previously in the General discussion but the previous thread got hijacked into a total different subject so decided on advice of Admin to move here and repost.

I will be posting a lot of photos of my progress up to date , please feel fee to chime in with any advice you might have , I am mostly a ford and mercury guy so mopar is a new deal for me.

I am a semi retired machinist that in my youth was a bodyman until I looked around in the 1970's and everybody in the shop that was 40 years old looked like they were 70 so I got into a different career, however those skills have stayed with me and I have built a decent home garage to restoring my cars , I am trading some heavy excavating work with Doug in exchange for redoing his RR

Here is the car initially after sandblasting , we had the dustless sandblast guy come in and for about 1200$ got the car stripped of the numerous coast of paint and then sanded it with 80 grit to prep for the the heavy build primer

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Starting on the passenger rear 1/4s first as the seem to be the worst , found a replacement patch from AMD metals for the rear of the 1/4 but they did not have the front patch, they did have one for a 71-72 that was really close on the fit with the exception for the actual wheel well lip and a body line that the 73 does not have , but notice the door edge fi and the shape of the inner rocker panel edge which were pretty much exact , I modified the WW edge to suit ( more on that later in the discussion )

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Very nice job your doing. Its gonna look great when its all done. Thanks for posting the pics and progress.:thumbsup:
 
cutting and fitting the AMD panels , I also got the correct inner and outer wheel wells from them , really nice stampings and pretty easy to deal with

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outer panels fir and installed then rebuilding the unique wheel well shape and welding , I did a combination of TIG and MIG
Notice how I formed the edge of the wheel well that was not on the replacement -
panel , I smoothed the radius in panel out before the body work but forgot to take a pic sorry
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I wish AMD or someone else made inner rockers , the rest of it has been manageable but the inner rockers a bitch
 
Thanks for sharing, looks like it's coming along nicely! Looking forward to seeing the finished product :thumbsup:
 
Looks like you have got it close.
Doug
 
Stripe question-- Is there anyplace that makes a masking for the stripe? So I can spray the red and mask it off then get the rest of the color on and clearcoat ?

I am heading to my place in Florida for a few months to recover from this car so we are going to be on a commercial break for a while

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