Project Rat Rod V code 70 Charger R/T is about to begin.

It's a dual purpose task,I get to huff paint,and get my parts painted at the same time.

I tried that once. Stunk up the house for a couple of days. Didn't go over well. Get away with the odd little touch up now and then out in the garage while the wife's at work. I have to wait for warm weather out in tool shed. Yes I'm whipped!

I have an empty building that has to be heated so the pipes don't freeze,so I paint parts there. Nobody there to complain about the smell.

Nice. Your very own paint booth for sure.

In cold weather, I shield off an area with plastic sheeting and turn on the Propane heaters. I then put the paint cans in a 5 gallon bucket of warm water to bring the temperature up.

I usually keep the paint in the house overnight,then go paint the parts.

I've done that before with lots of liquids KD. Even preheat the parts on my cast iron rad. I do some some parts in the garage but the dam overspray. Hell I even hate to cut plywood in the shop. Dust in the air settles on everything.
So what's next? Big weekend planned on the Charger??

If I can get the steering column back in the car and finish up the clutch and brake pedal install, I would be happy, with the temperature in the garage being around 30 degrees at the warmest part of the day predicted for the whole weekend I hope not to be out there anymore than I have to. The cold weather has pretty much shut down getting anything done on my 71 Charger R/T project car and my 70 Road Runner convertible project car,and my engine builder is holding my Hemi hostage, so the Daytona stock car project is still on hold too.

Don't they have salamanders in rhode island???

I don't like using anything with an open flame in the garage.

I was hoping to get some more work done on the car this weekend, but it didn't happen. I had to change the oil in my truck, and I did do some more cleaning in the garage. The task of cleaning the garage is overwhelming, as I am a pack rat,not quite a horder,and I have let the garage get out of control. I am trying to get combustible materials out of the building. As far as the Charger goes, while cleaning the garage I found a tuff wheel steering column adapter, so I am trying to decide which steering wheel to go with. The current sport steering wheel is in pretty good shape, but it is missing the correct horn button adapter. It has a 68/69 adapter, not the larger 70 adapter. If anyone out there has a 70 adapter and needs a 68/69 adapter, send me a PM if you want to trade adapters. So what do you guys think, should I go with the sport wheel, or the stuff wheel. I gave an adapter to put a tuff wheel in his 70 Charger, it looks good and he likes the smaller steering wheel. Any input will be greatly appreciated.

I think with the direction your going on the car. I vote Tuff Wheel.

It's coming along great BTW.

Thanks, I am hoping to really get serious about making the car run and drive in the spring and hope to have it a full blown driver by Carlisle. I don't think that the car has been on the road for around 25 years. It's going to be a great day when I can actually drive it around!

Woodgrain wheel looks nice on 68-70 b body.......tuff wheel looks better on 71-74 b and e body only my opinion

I do believe that the tuff wheel became available as a mid year option in 1970. I have seen a few 70 Chargers that had them, I don't know if or how many of them came from the factory with them.

I got out to the garage today and I got the steering column put back into the car. I also noticed that a previous owner had cut the inner bottom sections of the rust free California Charger R/T doors to install stereo speakers! What can you say, except that's what they did back in the day when the car was just another car! I have a beat up and rusty Charger door that I can cut the pieces from to repair them.

The other day I was cleaning up some parts that I had in a 68 Charger roller that I had behind the garage. I sold the car to a fellow FBBO member. Among the parts was the gas filler section of a Charger rear quarter panel. We saved a few of them because my friend had installed dual flip top gas caps on his 70 Charger R/T back in the day. Well back in 2004,before aftermarket OEM style sheetmetal was available for Chargers,I bought a 70 Charger left side rear quarter panel from a friend of mine at the Mopar Nationals in Ohio. NOS Charger rear quarters were a rare find even back then,and left side ones were the hardest to find. My friend Tom,who used to own that F6 green Daytona Charger that had been rolled over, and he used to display it at Most of the Mopar shows back then. He sold the car to a guy in Australia and it has since been restored, and almost all of the original metal on the car was saved and reworked by a metal master,whose skills far exceed anything that I am capable of! Well anyway, Tom always has a ton of rare NOS Charger and Mopar parts. So I saw Tom at the Nationals and he had a 70 Charger NOS rear quarter panel. The panel looked good except that the inner fin,and the gas filler area were cut off the panel. He told me that the panel belongs to his friend and that he got the panel from a Nascar shop in North Carolina, and that he also got a rear window plug from a Nascar Daytona stock car and a acrylic rear window that was used in the race cars too. He said that the fin being cut off the quarter panel and the stock gas filler area being removed was because the panel had been prepared to be used for a Daytona Charger stock car and was never installed on the car. He said that they move the gas filler to the side from the top on the stock cars. I thought that was an interesting story, and I wanted to share it with everyone here. So as I was picking up the parts behind the garage, I found the gas filler area we had cut out of a Charger many years ago. I test fitted the piece into the hole in the NOS Charger quarter panel and it will work to repair the area. The piece also had part of the side of the quarter on it,and this will help me properly index the filler cap section. I threw the piece in the blast cabinet to prepare it for installation. This rear quarter panel will most likely be installed on this car because I already did the repairs around the rear window on this car ,so if the panel doesn't have the inner fin area,the car dosen't need it. I am a ways away from hanging any sheet metal on this car,but it doesn't hurt to have it ready to go for when I am ready.

That is a cool story. Thanks for sharing. I vote for the Tuff Wheel.

I vote for woodgrain wheel..... I look at it this way 70 charger RT is a very classy looking car the wood grain wheel fits right in with that perspective