A Teenager and His Swinger

Hey guys progress has been made.

Here's the 360. Not very pretty at the moment, but it's going to look and run great when it's all said and done. The cam, lifters, gaskets, and timing set have arrived.

I pulled out the rear end from the Swinger and my Dart Sport. The Sport has a 7.25 that I'm using temporarily since I had already put all new brakes and brake lines on it AND it's big bolt pattern. The Swinger has a 8.75 rear with 3.23 posi gears that I'm definitely using. The only thing is that it's small bolt. I'm going to put this one aside and wait until I can afford to rebuild the brakes and order some big bolt axles for it.

This beautifully rusty 4 door Dart is being sacrificed for it's trunk floor. I cut it out and set it aside for cleaning. I still have to cut out the floors from the Swinger. Whoever "repaired" the floor in it taped a piece of cardboard over the rust and fiberglassed over it. Nothing else.

These are the only pictures I took before it got too dark to take any. I'll take more tomorrow and post them. I also removed the steering column and I'm putting in a floor shift column that has a new ignition switch. Then I'm going to sand the engine bay and spread a little bondo where the metal has been pitted. IMO a Mopar like this needs to look just as nice under the hood as it does outside.

More to come tomorrow. Thanks for looking!