Si's '70 Charger 500

Charger · Post by **Charger** » Mon Jan 27, 14 8:23 pm

Andys Charger wrote:Great to see more '70 Chargeres are on here from when I was last on.
I spent a long time looking at this one at the Nats nice car love it!

cheers Andy, looking forward to seeing your build

Charger · Post by **Charger** » Thu May 07, 15 11:11 pm

realised I’ve not updated this thread for a long time

my bad, so here goes

to recap, it’s no major build or resto, just a few ramblings about things I’ve done to keep my old Charger on the road and in reasonable fettle

over the past week I’ve been trawling thro old photos and putting some words together, hopefully over the next weeks I’ll be up to date

Charger · Post by **Charger** » Thu May 07, 15 11:13 pm

rewind to 2009 …

the front valance had always bugged me a little, was a bit scabby and over 40 years looked like it had been used as a parking aid on a number of occasions

as it is relatively straight forward to remove I decided to do so and get it repaired and painted, rather than doing it in situ and it snowballing into painting the whole car

so off it came and away with it up to Dave (Moparnutterz) in Chorley for sorting out

Charger · Post by **Charger** » Fri May 08, 15 7:43 am

decided to take off the front fenders to check for rot and treat any areas not possible to reach with them on

pleasantly surprised to find only a little surface rust

both scuttle panel drains blocked with old rodent nests, I guess that’s why I used to get wet feet when the car was out in the rain, seems to be cured now

Dave81 · Post by **Dave81** » Fri May 08, 15 12:46 pm

Inside of the fenders look really clean Si..........I take it its a dry state car?

Rats Nest insulation.........Interesting Mod!

Charger · Post by **Charger** » Sat May 09, 15 8:43 am

other bits and pieces cleaned and painted in the process

I made the upper control arm cam bolt access covers from an old recycling box

Charger · Post by **Charger** » Mon May 11, 15 7:34 am

cleaned, treated rust and painted the inside of the fenders

a little welding to re-attach the passenger side upper rear bracket

Charger · Post by **Charger** » Tue May 12, 15 8:30 am

repaired and painted valance panel back from Dave

Pete · Post by **Pete** » Tue May 12, 15 8:40 am

Looking good - I did not think the car needed any work, it always looks so clean...........

db · Post by db » Tue May 12, 15 8:58 am

Great work there!

Charger · Post by **Charger** » Tue May 12, 15 4:46 pm

cheers guys

this was back in 2009 remember

i’m catching up slowly

apart from the scabby valance I guess I could have just left as is would have looked ok, but while I had the valance and bumper off seemed sensible to take a look under the fenders

Mossy68 · Post by **Mossy68** » Tue May 12, 15 6:26 pm

Keep em coming Si. I'm enjoying this.

Charger · Post by **Charger** » Wed May 13, 15 7:58 am

park & turn signal housing cleaned, painted and fitted, new lenses from PG Classic … http://www.pgclassic.com/

danny_duke01 · Post by **danny_duke01** » Wed May 13, 15 9:10 am

Great work Si!!

Keep the pics coming...

Charger · Post by **Charger** » Thu May 14, 15 7:43 am

reassembly

getting everything lined up again with nice panel gaps was easier than I thought it was going to be