70 Dart Swinger Restorationish

[pyrogen007]

Decided to go with Roll-bar & Chassis black, this is a driver not a show car.

 

[pyrogen007]

Y'all that posted photos of your projects, thanks! Gives me motivation and its cool seeing others doing what I consider the worst part of this hobby, rust removal and body work.

 

[crackedback]

Nice work,

Pull the front shocks and finish priming the shock tower under the hardware...

 

[pyrogen007]

Good call, I haven't painted the engine bay yet and I still have to remove the old /6 suspension for the new/restored V8 stuff, I am planning on doing suspension mounting points and the front frame rails while the K frame/front suspension is out.

 

[340sFastback]

Nice work getting underside cleaned up and painted. You are lucky to have a car that solid to start with.

 

[Lift&Move]

Good on ya...that's nice and clean!

 

[pyrogen007]

Eventually I'll have the whole underside done like that. not sure what to do about between panels and inside the "frame rails" most folks on the YT use some kind of encapsulator. Been looking at them, haven't decided on which one to get, Eastwood's platinum rust encapsulator looks promising.

 

[mygasser]

something like waxoil inside any cavities will protect those 'blind' areas. they have a long thin application tube with a 360 degree nozzle on the end. you push the tube in as far as you can then spray while slowly pulling the tube back out. repeat all along the chassis etc etc.
neil.

 

[CFD244]

Great Job

 

[pyrogen007]

Got to work on the Dart a little more Sunday, the angle grinder almost got me and I ran out of primer so I didn't finish. Just a mix of wire wheels and media blasting.

 

[pyrogen007]

One layer of primer before I ran out.

 

[pa340dart]

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Keep up the good work.
What media are you using for blasting?

 

[pyrogen007]

Black aluminum oxide from the local HF, they claim its 70 grit. I hate the mess but it does a good job.

 

[72dustervs]

Looks good , nice work , on the headliner I used legendary interiors , they make an ABS headliner , plain or with colored material covering , mine was a duster so unsure if they do one for a Swinger or not , its a lot of work , some have to trim for the fit , it looks good but was not an easy job , of course I did not have help and its a 2 person job

 

[pyrogen007]

I looked into Legendary Interiors, I might have to reach out as I didn't see the abs headliner backer for the Swinger/2dr hardtop, hopefully they still make it.

Finally got back to the Dart, primer arrived and then it rained, ugh. Doing this in my garage without proper dehumidification so I had to wait for humidity to drop below 65%, so Friday got the primer knocked out.

 

[pyrogen007]

Also after waiting the proper amount of time, got the black paint sprayed. got started on the area between the "frame rails" but no photos yet as I didn't get far before having to clean up and stop for the day.