Mopar Muscle Association UK

Haha
Cheers, however done a couple of small jobs this week so far
My front quarters require a modification to the front edge,
Early cars like mine have a steel lower front panel,
Fiddly little bracket to remove from original fenders and retro fit in the new ones ,
My brackets had some corrosion so ...

My Doug’s stainless headers and new mini starter were delivered today!
Excellent service from Summit as always,
And managed to get the front end pretty square over the weekend, so all good !
Had to fabricate a second pair of hands to assist with hood holding! :help:
Going to take a break from the ...

So block huggers apparently won’t work with a 4 speed
Bugger, so going for Doug’s Long tube stainless,
And a hi torque mini starter to combat heat soak
This bloody car is ruining me!

Well after another weekend Ive almost got the front short of aligned !
Absolutely crap way for building a car,
Shims and spacers, bending panels and a hundred different permutations to end up with something that’s just about acceptable,
Bit of an eye opener really,
The actual body tub is far more ...

Yeah I’ve considered this option, however the front of my house faces sheppy and the north wind !
I think a temporary type garage would get shredded quite quickly!
It will be ok, and as the thread title suggests it’s the very last one, I’m never ever doing another project!

It’s got much bigger since all the panels and subframe have been fitted!
So yes I have to work mainly outside now ,
Given the winter is almost here progress will undoubtedly slow, and eventually stop through the worst parts,
I’m hoping to get the front end alignment done, square up the panel gaps ...

Been busy again and trying to get my moody Asian metal work to something like aligning !
There’s very little in panels for early F’ body’s so later bits have to be chopped and modified,

Scrub that , I’ve spent the last 20 hours and managed to get my new fenders to sort , well sort of !
Much much better than last weekends effort
Still will need some cutting and dressing on the left side but not to horrible.

My Pypes exhaust system looks rather nice
Maybe a tad too large but meh !

probably going to abort fitting the repro OER front wings and repair my originals,
even after ages messing around getting them to fit , they will still have the inner structure hump which my very early gen two car dose'nt have
so sod it, im so far in now another few months makes no difference,

ill ...

Got the third member fitted today, went in fairly easily but a fair bit of pre preparation before hand
The joys of doing this stuff single handed

Started the front end and as expected my new quarters are total garbage, fit where they touch!
So that’s put paid to getting it painted this year,
As I ...

Well that’s interesting!
Looking back at my never ending summit invoices my parts are very global!

I flatted the epoxy and 2k primed the Hood today
As per made in Taiwan but it’s actually not to bad,
No idea at this point whether it fits ok !
Time will tell

My Pypes Stainless 3” exhaust was delivered today,
Looks quite nice quality, however i was a little disappointed to see even these components are made PRC !
Obviously the yanks like us make F—kal now

Haha , thank you , kind words it’s tough going at this time
Seems as I get older my garage gets even smaller!
Even these slightly smaller mid size cars are still a lump,
This is the one thing that causes me the most grief, the shear weight of the bits etc,
Still I’ll crack on as long as I can, it ...

No court yesterday so I cracked on and got the rear underside in paint,
I’ll be able to lift the axle and cart springs into place next week.

Yes this is my feeling, keep it simple etc, however my car being a 70’ has no clutch on the fan , old school direct drive,
In to a full shroud ,
I could get my one recored I guess but there’s seemingly no one local anywhere,

Ironically my wife’s first husband ran East Kent Rads !