72 Scamp 440 Build
Today was the day finally got to take the car around the block, not much more till it's done, mainly just body and interior and it's finished. The car has a great stance, even though it took forever to get the wheels painted It really sets it off.
The process of getting the wheels finished took much longer than expected, I initially bought 15x8 wheels and 225 tires and after all of the work getting them painted I forgot to take in account that the Dana came with larger drums so they did not fit what so ever even if the lip was rolled it still would have rubbed... so I bit the bullet and just got another two 15x7s and run the 205 tire same as the front so I finally got around to painting them and now it sits on its own wheels after a year and a half on blocks. I'm glad I stuck with body color on the wheels. The Winchester grey form PPG looks great.
While waiting to get the wheels finished I decided to get the center console finished. I cleaned the chrome up and it looks good, not perfect but from outside of the car it looks like new. I got the new wood vinyl stickers from eBay and they completely changed the look of it. I originally wanted to have the stock Dart GT tach but seeing how much people are trying to get for them that way out of the question so an Autometer half sweep will do.
I wired the tach and console lights together and used a plug so the console can be removed easily
After installing and removing it the console base got pretty scratched up and since you couldn't see the texture because of the multiple layers of paint, a paint stripper was used to get rid of all the layers instead of sanding turns out that the console was originally white. Then a few coats of Trim black were used and now it looks like new.
Thinking that I was finally done with the dash I had buttoned it all up then the speedometer decided it wanted to break so out it came, that is the fifth time it's had to come out, luckily I had a replacement speedo but it had the wrong mileage, because the drivetrain is all new I popped the odometer out and set it to zero instead of the 86k that the car originally had.
Today was the day finally got to take the car around the block, not much more till it's done, mainly just body and interior and it's finished. The car has a great stance, even though it took forever to get the wheels painted It really sets it off.
The process of getting the wheels finished took much longer than expected, I initially bought 15x8 wheels and 225 tires and after all of the work getting them painted I forgot to take in account that the Dana came with larger drums so they did not fit what so ever even if the lip was rolled it still would have rubbed... so I bit the bullet and just got another two 15x7s and run the 205 tire same as the front so I finally got around to painting them and now it sits on its own wheels after a year and a half on blocks. I'm glad I stuck with body color on the wheels. The Winchester grey form PPG looks great.
While waiting to get the wheels finished I decided to get the center console finished. I cleaned the chrome up and it looks good, not perfect but from outside of the car it looks like new. I got the new wood vinyl stickers from eBay and they completely changed the look of it. I originally wanted to have the stock Dart GT tach but seeing how much people are trying to get for them that way out of the question so an Autometer half sweep will do.
I wired the tach and console lights together and used a plug so the console can be removed easily
After installing and removing it the console base got pretty scratched up and since you couldn't see the texture because of the multiple layers of paint, a paint stripper was used to get rid of all the layers instead of sanding turns out that the console was originally white. Then a few coats of Trim black were used and now it looks like new.
Thinking that I was finally done with the dash I had buttoned it all up then the speedometer decided it wanted to break so out it came, that is the fifth time it's had to come out, luckily I had a replacement speedo but it had the wrong mileage, because the drivetrain is all new I popped the odometer out and set it to zero instead of the 86k that the car originally had.
