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1968 PlumLocoWannaBee

57charley

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The Plum Crazy paint gets a lot of attention, it's an older hillbilly body shop bondo the moulding and rust holes paint job, the bondo is bubbling in several places. But the 440 AT does run and drive so far, even if it bounces like crazy, it has 20 inch Plymouth Prowler wheels on back, and what looks like a solid suspension instead of shocks. It's going to be a budget driver, got some $50 Amazon seat covers, the front cloth didn't match the back seat vinyl.

My first improvement was installing a gas pedal, then I put in new (used) front door panels and arm rests, they were missing in front, I found a set of panels that were white and painted them. Last weekend I took back seat, side cardboard panels, armrests and upper valance panels out to install seat covers, side panels, and paint upper panels. Then I took front seat out and cleaned up the floor some, the back carpet was installed backwards, fixed that. I still need to reinstall the front carpet, they had it about 4 inches too far back.

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I put some peel and stick aluminum roofing under the front carpet for sound/temp control. Finished up the back seat, got lucky and had the trim for the package tray, as well as the moulding for the passenger side headliner, looking better. I ordered headliner trim for the back window and windlace for the door jambs, I need to take the gas pedal out so I can reposition the front carpet.

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Keep at it. You'll probably find more stuff wrong as you dig deeper. Looks good so far.
 
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