The Crusty Cuda: Whole lotta Shakin' (N96) Goin' on!

[TimG]

My word Dave, where do you get the energy. I changed the oil on my Scarab over the weekend and felt like I had built the Great Wall of China. You're killing me

[njsteve]

Originally Posted by Ryan1969Chevelle

I must have missed a step...... what made you decide to restore it?

Ryan W31

A SugarDaddy stepped in!

[Ryan1969Chevelle]

Originally Posted by njsteve

A SugarDaddy stepped in!

Got it :-)

Ryan W31

[A12pilot]

Well, the front suspension on the 507 will be from a 64-65 Mopar, so it’s not too far from the truth, actually. But if I were to use this one, Steve may call me to discuss some missing parts!!!

Thanks, for the compliments, guys and Tim, I just can’t sit still with these car projects. Matter of fact, the headlight buckets and turn signals for the 507 are in so I might have to install those too!

Ryan, scroll up an out 10-15 posts. I posted an announcement in that post that posted that Steve is now the new owner of Crusty and posted that further posts after painting will be posted by him.

A SugarDaddy would imply that I married Steve for his money. And although he’s a nice guy, I’m not into moustachiosos!!!! You pickin’ up what I’m throwin’ down?.

Interior removal and hopefully onto the twirler today!!!

Cheers
Dave

PS: Thanks for fixing the photo Steve!

[njsteve]

LOL. This photo? or do you mean the other Steve?

[njsteve]

Ok, serious question. I posted this photo this morning with my desktop and it was right side up. Now when I view it on my iPhone, it is upside down. Whatsupwiththat?

[markinnaples]

On my PC it is now the correct upright orientation; Dave's original post was upside down.

[A12pilot]

Exactly, Mark. "Steve" was in reference to Forum Mod Steve, not stand through the Shaker hole Steve!

Moving forward, just about ready to mount the car on the rotisserie and jam-on-it on over to the small shop for undercoating removal.

Several small "assembly line oddities". Rear marker lights have different fasteners from left and right. They should be the capped nuts but the drivers side were star washer nuts. You can tell they're original by the clean threads from where the nuts were removed. This goes along with the rear seat back lower retaining screw (self taping bolt) used to hold the dash that was installed right next to the machine threaded nut where the correct bolt goes.

Rear glass to go, and yes, gills too along with a few small things. Everything is getting boxed up and labeled too! More to come.....

Cheers
Dave

[big gear head]

Wow, you're fast.

[A12pilot]

As promised and on schedule, it’s on the rotisserie this weekend! Yes, here at DM Restorations, Fabrications, Custom Creations and Coachwerks (), we set the bar incredibly low so it appears we meet expectations when in actuality, we trip over it and thus make it appear we’ve passed the bar but it’s just the momentum from the trip that pushed us over it. And by us, I mean me.

Now comes undercoating removal with the fabled torch and scraper. Seeing other details that my other Mopars had gives me the clues to start the game plan on paint. The underside of the frame rails on this car, much like my Bee, is a light dusting on paint versus the heavier application on the outer floor pans and wheel wells. You can see the light purple on the front bolt hole for the bumper mount and the rear axle bumper stop. Yet, looking at the floor pan you can really see the heavy overspray. The last three Chargers I did were different since two 68s were from the St. Louis plant and one 69 was from the Hamtramck plant. St. Louis cars had the entire frame rails on the front painted and the Hamtramck plant had one underside painted and the other basically primer.

More this week! And yes Freddie, I try and make each day as productive as I can. I mean, Steve ain’t paying me to sit around. Actually, Steve’s not paying me at all

Cheers
Dave