Restoration Page 3 : May 1999 - May 2000

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Lifted the engine out. |

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Engine compartment minus engine. |

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Guess what! Rust on the shock towers. Nothing surprised me at this point... |

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Made a nice little patch panel. Welded. |

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Did both sides. And finished up with some body work. |

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Sandlblasted. |

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..and primed. What a difference. |

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Started sanding the hood, blasted the inner frame. |

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And primed. |

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Removed the window. Charger rust around the corners. Made patch panels. |

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Sanded, and primed the floor. |

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Painted with this nice blue we had lying around. GM blue, i think. |

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Patched up the front valence thingy. Should really buy a new one. |

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Blasted under the doors, and undercoated and primed. Also replaced the door hinges (not shown here). |

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Took the axle to the shop and they took it apart and did stuff. Sandblasted it and other bits and pieces. |

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Painted with POR 15. |

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Reinstalled it. |
And now the bodywork begins...

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Started off by sandblasting the fender. |

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And stripping the paint off the car |

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keep stripping. Uncovered years of dents, door dings, and neglected surface rust. |

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and the rear. |

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Removed the original vinyl roof, and all the glue and shit underneath. |

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Began trying to fix all the damage that the sandblasting did. I didnt know it, but I was warping all the metal. |

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Even the oxy-acetyline warped the metal. This piece was hard to fix. Impossible to make it perfect, but it turned out OK. |

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The shit peices from Cross-Canada were not stamped right and resulted in to lining up with the door. So we had to recreate all the lines. Lots of bondo, unfortunately. |

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Found a great way to fix up the rear window. Put a layer of fiberglass down, then pressed in the window. When the fiberglass hardened, popped out the window, and voila, a perfect seal. |

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after the bodywork, I primed to verify that the bodywork was good. Most times it wasnt so I redid it. |

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The fenders came out REALLY well! |