A68DART360
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and all the bumps you can see under the vinyl. Good luckBased upon what it looks like by the trim what did you expect to find?
and all the bumps you can see under the vinyl. Good luckBased upon what it looks like by the trim what did you expect to find?
I am not far and do that type of metal work.
well, I really want to see you fix this car ......so here is what I have in mind.
me and my cousin are cutting up a 68 dart to fix our other cars....one quarter was already removed and I am going to use this car to "clip" a wrecked Demon I have.......
me or my cousin will not need the roof........
so if you have time....the time it will take me to remove the roof ....I still want the other quarter so it will be drilled out at the seam
I offer this roof to you for shipping......I have no idea how much it would be to ship from Colorado to you ....but you would be ahead on the part cost.
I am in southeastern Colorado and quite frankly cars don't really rust here (you can see the green one on page one is my worst one) and I know you guys don't have that luxury out east and I feel bad and im willing to help if I can.
so here is some of the part if you cant find anything closer and it sounds like you have an installer in the works ....so good luck and please save that dart, a 69 dart is a great car and well deserving of some effort.
Get the rear window surround as much as you could off that car. The trunk to window filler is available if there isn't enough with the roof. We just did one for $1000 with paint and the vinyl installed. no glass installed. had a glass Co. do it and customer paid that bill. But your headliner needs to be done before glass installation.
Absolutely, but starting somewhere shouldn't be removing the roof and both quarters, especially for a beginner.
And... I don't see GTS on the fenders.
$2000 Solid West Coast body + $1200 shipping = Saving thousands of dollars and a huge amount of time.
You will also have a better car in the end.
So I finally got around to pulling the vinyl top off the Dart this weekend and now I am freaked out. I guess I was not expecting the disaster that I found. The first picture just gives you an idea of what it looked like before. The roof metal is pitted badly and there are a number of holes all over the roof.
From this before profile the bumps along the roof ridge ended up being a sign of terrible rust.
And the holes in this picture turned into even more holes once this lower section of vinyl came off.
I will try to get some pictures of the actual roof condition posted later. Now I am not sure what to do. I have been told to cut my losses and dump the car (I really don't want to do that). Skim the roof and put on another vinyl top to cover the disaster and let it ride for awhile (I know that is not the best option). I know that replacing/re-skinning the roof is the right way, but that is far beyond my capabilities. And I have searched the area high and low for a donor car, but can't find anything. I read through a number of the "rusted roof" threads from the past, but that spooked me even more. Really need some advice on how you guys would proceed and maybe how you tackled this situation in the past.