pat1969charger
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Looking good SGT! Can't wait for mine to start coming together! Look forward to new updates! Good luck with the house endeavours!
SGTPauls 68 Charger RT project
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keepat
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Awesome build! Good luck with the garage hunting, hopefully you can find one with a detached house ;-)
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chryco_psycho
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been there....sanded that, i found it was like falling in lova all over again over the last year of doing mine....i am ALMOST done with it...its the sweeter than yoohoo one, good lick and SEMPER FI !!! 2/7 wpns co, 29 palms CA
October = hurry up and paint before it is too late
Hey gang! Thanks for the comments. Benn busy since my last post. Finished sanding the welded body except for the rear wheel wells and the interior area. Got it pretty well smoothed out. Those file boards really show where the highs and lows are. Everything looks good except for the quarter to roof joints that I just can’t get it right, so I’ll leave those to the professionals. Running out of warm weather to paint so I wrapped it up and got the guns out. Hit it with a coat of DP90 for bare metal and to bond to the old DP90, then 4 coats of K36 to fill all the scratches and little nicks. I goofed up some of the finish paint I put on the frame and shock towers so I’ll be repainting the whole front inner clip in the future.
This might be it for a while gang. The wife and I found a house and close on it within a month. The garage for the charger is attached and is slightly smaller width and depth than what I have now but I have a way to add 5’ of depth to about 2/3s of the width. Wife is ok with that. Nice and tall at 9’ + ceiling. Attached garage will = heated garage in the future. So a pause now will have benefits of year round fun later. House needs a lot of work so will be spending the winter addressing those needs. Will get some pics of the new pad in the future.
Hey gang! Thanks for the comments. Benn busy since my last post. Finished sanding the welded body except for the rear wheel wells and the interior area. Got it pretty well smoothed out. Those file boards really show where the highs and lows are. Everything looks good except for the quarter to roof joints that I just can’t get it right, so I’ll leave those to the professionals. Running out of warm weather to paint so I wrapped it up and got the guns out. Hit it with a coat of DP90 for bare metal and to bond to the old DP90, then 4 coats of K36 to fill all the scratches and little nicks. I goofed up some of the finish paint I put on the frame and shock towers so I’ll be repainting the whole front inner clip in the future.
This might be it for a while gang. The wife and I found a house and close on it within a month. The garage for the charger is attached and is slightly smaller width and depth than what I have now but I have a way to add 5’ of depth to about 2/3s of the width. Wife is ok with that. Nice and tall at 9’ + ceiling. Attached garage will = heated garage in the future. So a pause now will have benefits of year round fun later. House needs a lot of work so will be spending the winter addressing those needs. Will get some pics of the new pad in the future.
RM23U0A
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Hi SGTPAUL, Hope you`ll are making progress with the new home; and will be able to on the Charger this year also. You are an inspiration to me; maybe I will get busy and finish my shop then start another project. Wayne
rapidtransitric
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Looking forward to seeing this completed
Well gang it’s been a long year of renovations on our new place. But as of December 22nd we are all move in!! Took much longer than we expected since we found a lot of stuff that needed attention in addition to the renovations we planned on doing. Still have some misc elec work to do and all the trim work in the house. House is from 1964 and the charger was built in 1967 so they pair nicely together.
It was a sad day when we loaded up the charger and moved it out of the garage I’ve been putting it back together in and brought it over to the new place. But with an insulated garage I’ll install a gas heater for winter work. Not sure if I will be able to paint in this garage, or at least not that much. Will need to develop something for air exhaust. A few pics of the new place and moving of the charger below. As you can see we have a bit more purging / putting stuff away before I can start work on the charger again.
House on closing day November 2015.
Mid summer 2016 with new windows and door installed.
New garage with expansion area.
Living room.
New kitchen.
Bar in new kitchen.
Much larger master shower.
Charger ready to go. So sad with the flat tire...
Charger's happy new home. A little crowded.....
Plenty of parts storage space on the unfinished 2nd floor.
It was a sad day when we loaded up the charger and moved it out of the garage I’ve been putting it back together in and brought it over to the new place. But with an insulated garage I’ll install a gas heater for winter work. Not sure if I will be able to paint in this garage, or at least not that much. Will need to develop something for air exhaust. A few pics of the new place and moving of the charger below. As you can see we have a bit more purging / putting stuff away before I can start work on the charger again.
House on closing day November 2015.
Mid summer 2016 with new windows and door installed.
New garage with expansion area.
Living room.
New kitchen.
Bar in new kitchen.
Much larger master shower.
Charger ready to go. So sad with the flat tire...
Charger's happy new home. A little crowded.....
Plenty of parts storage space on the unfinished 2nd floor.
detmatt1
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Sweet! When's the housewarming party?
Superfreak
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Congrats on the new homestead. I am still in the same boat as you with reno's.
Keep at it and you'll be done soon.
Keep at it and you'll be done soon.
440jimr
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I love homes built in the fifties and sixties...can't beat the quality.
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Nice house!
Nice looking house . . . and not a single vice-grip anywhere in the house holding something together . . .
( GRIN ) . . .
( GRIN ) . . .
LOL!!! You know they were used! Thanks! We need a vicegrip emoji....
Thanks for the comments! Getting things closer to normal. I found my favorite shirt after the move! I feel much better now.... 
Thanks for the comments! Getting things closer to normal. I found my favorite shirt after the move! I feel much better now....
Now that . . . coming from you . . . is FUNNY ! ! ! Thanks for the laugh ( I'll clean up my monitor later . . . grrr )
Over six years since I've worked on the car and almost five years since my last post here. What has this guy been up to? Well, the never-ending house renovation is the answer. But the light at the end of the tunnel is getting closer. Spent from spring of 2018 to spring of 2020 on exterior siding and such on the upper part of the house. What a rotten mess, literally. I never saw so much rotten wood. My roofer had to replace about 20 sheets of plywood and that's over what I had to do for the eve rebuilding I did. But it all looks good. Before and after pics below.
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This year we built the nicest shed the building inspector ever saw and started getting the yard ready for landscaping next summer (bush and tree removal).
In the fall I installed a gas heater in the garage. HEATED GARAGE! You know what that means? Work on the car will be starting again!!!! Been watching Graveyard Carz and learning a lot about the OEM stuff that I want to replicate. But with that education I learned I have some issues to resolve. Plus, my wonderful wife asked for AC. So, I need to make some modifications to the fire wall for that. I know a 440 4spd would have never had AC, but it's not a number matching car so what the heck. I like AC on those hot summer days and don't like sticking to the seats anyways. Happy wife = happy life.
Here is what the car has looked like for the last six years.
And now for the unveiling....
Stay tuned for the progress. At least thru the winter...
This year we built the nicest shed the building inspector ever saw and started getting the yard ready for landscaping next summer (bush and tree removal).
In the fall I installed a gas heater in the garage. HEATED GARAGE! You know what that means? Work on the car will be starting again!!!! Been watching Graveyard Carz and learning a lot about the OEM stuff that I want to replicate. But with that education I learned I have some issues to resolve. Plus, my wonderful wife asked for AC. So, I need to make some modifications to the fire wall for that. I know a 440 4spd would have never had AC, but it's not a number matching car so what the heck. I like AC on those hot summer days and don't like sticking to the seats anyways. Happy wife = happy life.
Here is what the car has looked like for the last six years.
And now for the unveiling....
Stay tuned for the progress. At least thru the winter...
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I like your avatar. I need to look thru my pics and share one with you that you may like.
Thanks for your service! I like Chargers and have read your thread before. Good to see you back on it.
Thanks for your service! I like Chargers and have read your thread before. Good to see you back on it.
HEY SARGE IS BACK!
Alright someone to get me motivated!
Agreed- he's been missed around here . . . Nice to have him back ! ! !
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