Hey everyone! I figured I would start a build thread on my 69 GT I just bought a few weeks ago. I bought the car from another member here. I picked up the car from West Virginia. The road trip was fun that's for sure.
The little green Dart has been lovingly named... "The Green Bastard" (from parts unknown)
Here are a few of my plans for the car.
This summer I am going to just do some maintenance on the vehicle along with some minor upgrades. My final build on the car will be a mild 440/727 and an 8 3/4 rear. I have a lot of things to do first to make the car safe.
I noticed that the frame rail on the driver side is in really bad shape. I ordered a nice clean used rail and will eventually get that in the car. I checked the right side rail and it's in good shape other than the upper control arm mounts are toast.
After 3 hours of cutting, swearing and a few cut off wheel's I finally got the left upper control arm off. The bolts were totally seized into the bushings.. Yuck...
I am going to roll the car outside now and blast the area really well. I have cut most of the bad spots out of the rail, and made a few cardboard templates to fix the damage with some heavy steel I had laying around. Here are a few pictures... more to come as I go along.
I did notice that the brake lines were in really bad shape too so I ordered a new set from fine lines.
The first thing I did to the car was to adjust all of the latches. The doors were a bit sticky and the deck lid you had to slam to close. Not much work involved. I just adjusted the strikers properly and the deck latch. Closes with one finger now
The little green Dart has been lovingly named... "The Green Bastard" (from parts unknown)
Here are a few of my plans for the car.
This summer I am going to just do some maintenance on the vehicle along with some minor upgrades. My final build on the car will be a mild 440/727 and an 8 3/4 rear. I have a lot of things to do first to make the car safe.
I noticed that the frame rail on the driver side is in really bad shape. I ordered a nice clean used rail and will eventually get that in the car. I checked the right side rail and it's in good shape other than the upper control arm mounts are toast.
After 3 hours of cutting, swearing and a few cut off wheel's I finally got the left upper control arm off. The bolts were totally seized into the bushings.. Yuck...
I am going to roll the car outside now and blast the area really well. I have cut most of the bad spots out of the rail, and made a few cardboard templates to fix the damage with some heavy steel I had laying around. Here are a few pictures... more to come as I go along.
I did notice that the brake lines were in really bad shape too so I ordered a new set from fine lines.
The first thing I did to the car was to adjust all of the latches. The doors were a bit sticky and the deck lid you had to slam to close. Not much work involved. I just adjusted the strikers properly and the deck latch. Closes with one finger now
