Street Charger Build Thread

Looking forward to this one... 

Hi Michelle

    I have owned two real Chargers over the years . One a 66 and one a 72 . After warming up the drive train I made sure BOTH engines were painted Chrysler Turquoise . My Preferrence . After all Chevy had Orange and Ford had Blue ! T.B.   P.S. Both cars had the majority of the bodies painted Natural Pearl White .

Tanker - Builder

Hi Michelle

    I have owned two real Chargers over the years . One a 66 and one a 72 . After warming up the drive train I made sure BOTH engines were painted Chrysler Turquoise . My Preferrence . After all Chevy had Orange and Ford had Blue ! T.B.   P.S. Both cars had the majority of the bodies painted Natural Pearl White .

 

Oh, you're so lucky! I wanna be like you when I grow up, lol. I don't care about the year, I just want a classic one for the sound, and I love the body style of the older ones.

 

TODAY'S UPDATE: I think I have all the supplies I need for airbrushing/cleanup. Even managed to find the brake fluid stuff on my own! (Even though I may not need it now...) unfortunately, life is getting in the way of any spraying happening today, so hopefully this evening I'll be able to take a little time to kinda tear down and make sure my two airbrushes are good and clean, get everything together and start my testing tomorrow! Weather permitting of course. Giving rain the next four days or so (go figure)...

Here's to hoping!

Michelle

No worries on the rain. I usually use the time to clean parts up. You know the ones with all the mold lines and flash all over them. Looking forward to progress...........

Tanker - Builder

Hi Michelle

    I have owned two real Chargers over the years . One a 66 and one a 72 . After warming up the drive train I made sure BOTH engines were painted Chrysler Turquoise . My Preferrence . After all Chevy had Orange and Ford had Blue ! T.B.   P.S. Both cars had the majority of the bodies painted Natural Pearl White .

 

 

Hemi engines however in stock form are Hemi Orange.

Well;

 If you should happen to find a 66 it may be close to toast .They are not easy to bring back either . I had to use the front clip off a cop car to get mine back .

 The 72 might be easier . There's a lot of parts floating around . Oh , wait a minute , lets get the model done first , right ? Good going .  now don't worry about the rain . This would be a good time to clean , and prep , and detail the inside .  T.B.

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"Oh, you're so lucky! I wanna be like you when I grow up, lol. I don't care about the year, I just want a classic one for the sound, and I love the body style of the older ones."

 

I've owned five, four '71's and a '68. My favorite was a 1971 Charger 500, gold metalic body with a white vinyl top. White/black/gold interior, white leather bucket seats w/ the center console, T-shifter, rallye instrument cluster. It was awesome. The only drawback is it had a 318cid (5.2L for you youngsters). It was WAAAAY underpowered. Looking forward to watching this build.

 

this should be interesting 

Hi;

 I can't argue with that . I just preferred mine in 1957 Dodge Turquoise . You know  , like the old 318s .

I'm slowly but surely working on getting the old black paint off in between everything else going on around here. Got bitten by a late spring cleaning bug, so doing some cleaning/organization, and working on a F16 model at the same time. I did get a chance to test out the color I want to use, and decided to use just the red. It didn't cover the black too well, although it does look kinda nice over a metallic gold, but that one is too much of a PITA to clean up, so I'll probably skip that. I'll try to get some pics up maybe tomorrow...

Took some time today to try to get more of the old black paint off. A few more tiny spots to work on, then on to putting down the new body color!