Mopar Muscle Association UK

Sure it'll be worth the wait and I cant wait to see how it turns out. When we bought the Polara we thought the 1st major job would be a respray and a little bodywork, and had JPC in mind to do it, just from his reputation. So it will be good to check out some of his/their work when yours is done. Bu...

Aw shucks Clivey, thanks :oops: I'm lookin forward to seeing some info on your rebuild. You not got any pics of it at JPC yet? Are you expecting it to be done for this spring/summer? I thought we had enough pics of Maxie doin the rounds! I was goin to post some when I've got some new ones of it at P...

Not much else to report since all that bodywork was done, except, oh yeah, some of it had to be done all over again after a sticking throttle incident! That was around '97 and we were starting to get micro-blisters so a full respray was quite timely. Only problem is it wasnt as good a paint job and ...

Rcok On? Can you say that here? :shock: Not finished yet; gearbox needs attention, engine could do with a freshen up, had a new shifter for a coupla years that needs fitting, not to mention the dog dishes that we've had for prob 10 years without any steels to go on, and still got to fix that vibrati...

Well, Mal. Wouldve been some profit if we hadnt spent at least what its worth now (around £10k according to Tony O). If we'd spent a bit more at the time and got a Roadrunner (I remember one going for £2200 around that time), and managed to get one in good nick that wouldnt have needed a bunch spend...

God that is spooky Kev! Got so many pics over the years of our car, its strange to see some different ones! Could well have been the same meet, at least another in 85 or 86 cos I think we had the centrelines after that. Used to have to jack up the rear using the air shocks and by changing the fixing...

1st proper outing for the car after all that work was a classic & american type show at Lee Valley, Waltham Abbey, Essex. Cruised down there with Tony Walden in his 69 RR (RRX972X). Felt good having a car that didnt look out of place with its hood up. Plenty more good pics (IMHO!) from this even...

At last!! :hello1: At the time we thought 8 months was a long time, but hearing how long some club members have had to wait, and considering Steve had to do a lot of other bread & butter jobs (eg insurance repairs) as well, dont think he/we did too bad. Okay, its not a concourse resto but still ...

nearly there...

New windscreen fitted too, paid for by the insurance (before they started charging a separate excess)

Was trying to keep it in date order but thats gone a bit pear shaped. Not many left tho so bear with me.. Gettin some paint (ok, primer) on at last. And engine gettin tarted up too. Did want to stick with the original colour but Steve was reluctant to use metallics cos he didnt have access to an ove...

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Driver side front wing needed a lot more repair than the other as we already had a replacement. Only prob with the pass side was/is that it's off a 68, so Steve had to cut out the side marker area from the original and graft it in place of the replacement's.

Mark
Have a look at this colour chart, see if theres mention of any of the colour codes on your fender tag.
If you say it was dark green, might find an F8 stamped on it, that seems to be the darkest green.
Keep this jpeg, might prove useful when you come to look for new paint.

oops doubled up on one there.
As you can see from some of the pics, original colour was Spanish Gold Y4 i think. I'm sure Stu will correct me if I'm wrong. There were about 3 other colours still on the car including the Volkswagen green and a white.

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