1972 Dodge Coronet Wagon resto-mod

[cbodybob]

He cut the rear pans out & he made some using a 73 Chrysler New Yorker rear pans. He said they where surprisingly close

 

[cbodybob]

And with a little trimming the 73 Chrysler C body pans fit nicely & are welded back in. Looks very good

 

[cbodybob]

I'm having comfy C body bucket seats & folding center arm rest sourced from a 71 Chrysler 300. So he had to fab a seat to floor brace as one was too rusty

 

[cbodybob]

The bucket seats are from a 71 C body Chrysler as is the center arm rest. They has two sets of mounting holes on the bottom and Gary was able to use the inner set so everything would fit nice. The C body frames where too high so he cut them down. No pics of those yet but he tells me they look nice.

 

[cbodybob]

He had to fab up brackets to mount the center folding arm rest.

 

[cbodybob]

And the gasket/seal at the bottom of the glass is bad. Needs to be replaced. However the glass needs to go down to gain access. So he pulled the interior panel off to see if the motor had a hand crank. It doesn't so he's going to try to hook a battery directly to the motor. There was a lot of surface rust inside the door likely from the seal being bad. So it looks like we got this in time. Hopefully he can get the glass to lower to keep from having to remove it. This is going to be a trouble area.

 

[cbodybob]

I picked the wagon up today. She's back home. It's going to have to sit for a couple of months before I can do anything else as I'm very close to getting 2 other projects road ready.

 

[moparnation74]

Very cool indeed! That is A LOT of car to work with....

What are your plans for drive train and paint color?

 

[cbodybob]

Very cool indeed! That is A LOT of car to work with....

What are your plans for drive train and paint color?

Not too sure on drive train. Likely a big block. Original color.