1974 Roadrunner Re-Paint and Some Upgrades

[RR Fan Dan]

Door jambs done

 

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[donmodro]

That’s coming along really nice! Makes me wish I had worked the backsides of the doors and the jambs like that.

 

[RR Fan Dan]

 

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[donmodro]

Seeing this makes me wish I took your approach with the backside of the doors and the jambs. We had to do some work in there, including replacing a significant chunk of the driver’s side jamb. We replicated the factory approach, but this is cleaner.

 

[RR Fan Dan]

Seeing this makes me wish I took your approach with the backside of the doors and the jambs. We had to do some work in there, including replacing a significant chunk of the driver’s side jamb. We replicated the factory approach, but this is cleaner.

Both pieces of metal were pretty thin around the hinges and got replaced with 16 gauge. I do like how everything is smoothed out now. We took the same approach underneath the car and smoothed out as much s we could underneath too. The casual observer probably won’t notice.

 

[RR Fan Dan]

Working on the fender curves in the rear quarters. Getting them all squared up and correct. Then will move on to final fitting of the doors and fenders.

 

[donmodro]

Looking good! It is really coming along great

 

[RR Fan Dan]

Looking good! It is really coming along great

Can you see how smooth those fender wells are and underneath around the frame? That’s what I was saying most people won’t notice.

 

[donmodro]

Looking good! It is really coming along great

Oh yeah, I'm definitely noticing all of it because I've spent a *lot* of time elbows deep into mine. It is going to be a gorgeous build.

 

[donmodro]

Speaking of nailing the details, I can't remember if I showed you this, but I saw this one in PA back in June. The gentleman that owned it lit up when I asked him about his rear bumper. We have a spare bumper for ours and I am really tempted to do this to it:

 

[mpgmike]

Speaking of nailing the details, I can't remember if I showed you this, but I saw this one in PA back in June. The gentleman that owned it lit up when I asked him about his rear bumper. We have a spare bumper for ours and I am really tempted to do this to it:

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That looks SO much cleaner than the stock set-up. I love it!

 

[RR Fan Dan]

Speaking of nailing the details, I can't remember if I showed you this, but I saw this one in PA back in June. The gentleman that owned it lit up when I asked him about his rear bumper. We have a spare bumper for ours and I am really tempted to do this to it:

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How did he do that? I may do that. Gets rid of the impossible filler strips.

 

[donmodro]

How did he do that? I may do that. Gets rid of the impossible filler strips.

He didn’t share all of the details, but it involved shortening the brackets to pull it in flush, as well as sectioning the bumper to narrow it.

 

[RR Fan Dan]

He didn’t share all of the details, but it involved shortening the brackets to pull it in flush, as well as sectioning the bumper to narrow it.

Brackets no problem. Narrowing it would mean having to get it rechromed. Maybe I won’t do it.

 

[donmodro]

Brackets no problem. Narrowing it would mean having to get it rechromed. Maybe I won’t do it.

It sounded like he had someone do the work for him, and quoted the narrowing and subsequent rechrome at about $3k. It looked incredible in person. Subtle OEM+ mod.

 

[RR Fan Dan]

Drivers side rear quarter is pretty much done and ready for primer.