Thought a good way to jump into this forum after my initial post was to start a thread on the Road Runner. It is another one of those stories where the car landed in a restoration shop and the owner of the car and the shop had issues and so the car was sold-in boxes. The car had been disassembled blasted and epoxy coated with the exception of the roof and rear quarters. The gentleman I purchased the car from picked it up at the body shop and moved it to his house where he put it on a rotisserie and his son who in the collision repair manager at the local Chevrolet dealership started the body work. Interest waned and other projects took priority so I was able to purchase the car. It came with quite a few new parts but at the same time being moved 3 times in boxes a few parts were lost but I have been pretty fortunate to find them on the internet.
The resto shop was old school that originally blasted the car and the reason they left the exterior bare was so the filler would stick so the first this I did was to take the hood, deck lid and one door that was previously blasted down and have them blasted again, the two front fenders and drivers door were pretty much ready for paint-I know it is a little risky trusting someone else's work but I spoke to his son and felt pretty confident it was done right, I did block them down again and will hit them with primer. The back half the car was a challenge though. The blaster was able to get my parts done in a week or two but it was a 3-4 month wait to get the whole car in so I tackled it myself. I wont go into detail but with the advice of my blaster and a ton of work 100% of the surface rust was removed. Since a picture is worth a 1000 words I will post pics along the way and right now I will bring everyone up to speed of where I am at.
The plan is to keep the car the original W1 (white) with the burgundy interior. I wrestled with that combo but I spoke with a highly respected Mopar Restoration shop (Frank Badalson) and he felt since it was a matching numbers car and such an unusual combo I should keep it that way, so I will.
One last item is that it came with the original 383/727 which was rebuilt by a respected local shop just prior to the sale so that is one thing I will not have to do.
The first couple of pics is me picking the car up and then back in my garage. Then the surface rust removal-didn't take pics of the quarters but they came out the same.
The resto shop was old school that originally blasted the car and the reason they left the exterior bare was so the filler would stick so the first this I did was to take the hood, deck lid and one door that was previously blasted down and have them blasted again, the two front fenders and drivers door were pretty much ready for paint-I know it is a little risky trusting someone else's work but I spoke to his son and felt pretty confident it was done right, I did block them down again and will hit them with primer. The back half the car was a challenge though. The blaster was able to get my parts done in a week or two but it was a 3-4 month wait to get the whole car in so I tackled it myself. I wont go into detail but with the advice of my blaster and a ton of work 100% of the surface rust was removed. Since a picture is worth a 1000 words I will post pics along the way and right now I will bring everyone up to speed of where I am at.
The plan is to keep the car the original W1 (white) with the burgundy interior. I wrestled with that combo but I spoke with a highly respected Mopar Restoration shop (Frank Badalson) and he felt since it was a matching numbers car and such an unusual combo I should keep it that way, so I will.
One last item is that it came with the original 383/727 which was rebuilt by a respected local shop just prior to the sale so that is one thing I will not have to do.
The first couple of pics is me picking the car up and then back in my garage. Then the surface rust removal-didn't take pics of the quarters but they came out the same.