MINOR PROGRESS

We are currently waiting to move the Charger's chassis to the body shop. This will be a long wait given the shop's current work backlog.

Progress on the Charger has been slow in large part due to the purchase of the 1965 Chrysler reported on earlier. Time was taken away from the Charger project to remove the transmission from the Chrysler and rebuild it. Since the plan is to restore the Chrysler and since it was on the lift we took time to clean the under carriage, change the drive shaft u-joints, clean and repaint the shaft, clean and repaint the transmission support bracket and transmission oil pan. The transmission was cleaned as part of the overhaul. It has been rebuild and will be reinstalled soon.

While concentrating primarily on the Chrysler restoration since our last blog update some progress was made on restoring several smaller parts from the Charger. Besides cleaning and rust treating what seemed like hundred of bolts, nuts and fasteners work to restore other pieces was completed.

Pictured above is the Charger's gas tank filler tube. It along with the trunk lid hinge arms, trunk lid torsion rods and bumper jack were stripped to bare metal, rust treated then repainted.