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Re: Blue's Barracuda
Posted: Mon Dec 18, 17 6:26 am
by cadboy
Blue wrote: Sat Dec 16, 17 5:37 pm
Cah, you don't want much you do ya? Shall I write a bleedin' how to manual while I'm at it?......
Blue if you do I will have a copy to follow and get mine done
Good work by the way, wish I could do the same as your
Re: Blue's Barracuda
Posted: Mon Dec 18, 17 1:31 pm
by kma176
Great work and great thread!!!
Re: Blue's Barracuda
Posted: Wed Dec 20, 17 6:17 pm
by Blue
Rallye dash. Cluster had to come out to replace the voltage regulator with a solid state unit, the original is part of the fuel gauge on these panels. Someone had it all apart before and decided to paint the fascia gloss black which looked 'orrible so I thought I'd have a go at making it look more like it should while it was out. I left the grained section at the top black and masked it off. Sprayed the bottom half with wheel silver then masked that off. Finally sloshed the rest with plastic kote chrome spray. The "chrome" looks more like polished aluminium but I'm happy with the finished result.
Re: Blue's Barracuda
Posted: Wed Dec 20, 17 6:19 pm
by lough3969
looks excellent blue! I quite like the soft silver chrome finish on that...
Re: Blue's Barracuda
Posted: Thu Dec 21, 17 6:14 am
by cadboy
Looks very good Blue
Re: Blue's Barracuda
Posted: Thu Dec 21, 17 4:59 pm
by Blue
Torque boxes made and ready to weld in after Christmas.
Re: Blue's Barracuda
Posted: Fri Dec 22, 17 12:23 pm
by Birdman
Looking good Blue.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all in Mopar land
Re: Blue's Barracuda
Posted: Tue Jan 02, 18 1:46 pm
by MattH
Torque boxes look great, same as standard fit on Aussie Chargers.
Dash is superb, great job.
Re: Blue's Barracuda
Posted: Wed Jan 03, 18 4:47 pm
by Dave999
perfect for taking the skin off your knuckles as you remove the rear spring hangers
Re: Blue's Barracuda
Posted: Wed Jan 10, 18 5:12 pm
by Blue
Back in 1968 some bloke on the production line made a particularly lousy job of fitting the o/s inner wing. Fast forward 50 years and some random bloke in a shed far far away thought he'd drill out the spot welds and make a better job of it...
Re: Blue's Barracuda
Posted: Wed Jan 10, 18 6:37 pm
by Derek
You amaze me at times Blue.
Keep up the great work.
Re: Blue's Barracuda
Posted: Wed Jan 10, 18 9:54 pm
by Mossy68
Great work as always mate.
Surprising our cars even lasted 50 years considering they were pretty much slung together !!!
Good design I suppose !
Re: Blue's Barracuda
Posted: Thu Jan 11, 18 8:16 pm
by lough3969
Re: Blue's Barracuda
Posted: Thu Jan 11, 18 10:28 pm
by Cannonball
more likely had a crash early in its life and a lousy body shop did that repair 40 yrs on it would be hard to tell
Re: Blue's Barracuda
Posted: Fri Jan 12, 18 6:31 am
by Blue
No definatly came out of the factory that way, you can tell by the spot welds and the original paint and undercoat on the underside, it's never been repaired or hit there.
