1965 Dodge Dart Charger

65dartcharger said
After some cleaning on the date code I found out that the housing on the starter is from June 1964!! I need to get a new aluminium housing. Or was it possible to have a June built starter on a January 1965 assembled car?

I checked the old spark plug cables and they have paint on them. This means that the cables was on the distributor when the engine was painted or the cables and the cap was added right after the paint was shot so paint got on the cables.

The cables was produced by the Packard company. This cables are from quarter 3 of 1964.

I would say that the wires and the rest of the accessories were added while the block was still wet. Seeing many original cars over the passed thirty years, i have seen this many times. Also paint on the valve covers after they removed the mask after applying the paint. The paint was still wet and would leave paint marks like strings across the valve covers. Valve covers like hemi covers, not painted ones. Watching your progress, can't wait to see this competed.....