Post your before and after restoration pics

MoparMike1974 · Dec 11, 2019

Post your beast to beauty pics here!
Here's my 73 Swinger cloned to a 72. Hope to be on the road this summer.

harrisonm · Dec 11, 2019

Dude, is that the same car? Nice work.
Here is mine.

Steven190 · Dec 12, 2019

Here is my project 69 Dart, from field to driver.

SPACECOWBOY · Dec 12, 2019

dibbons · Dec 12, 2019

Yep, same 1965 four-door Valiant V8: 1980 (Cadillac Terra Cotta) @ 12.72 seconds and 2000 (Black) @ 8.09 seconds.

I sold it 1980 to the Renteria Brothers (Morgan Hill, CA) and circa 2000 they sold it to Kenny Moorhead. (first image is a "file photo") I am guessing it became the quickest four-door Valiant on the planet.

MoparMike1974 · Dec 12, 2019

harrisonm, yeah same car. Pulled it completely down and put it on a rotiserie. Put it back together the way I wanted it. First pic was around 2002. Second pic is current.
Sweet looking Barracuda, love the green color.
Dibbons, I had a 75 valiant 4 door around 1992 that I put a 340 in. That was a fun car.

CudaChick1968 · Dec 12, 2019

April 9, 1991:

... and now.

I farmed out only the paint and bodywork. If I had to do it again now I'd probably do that too. I love that car like a second kid! It would take hours describing how much that one single $250 purchase over 28 years ago changed my life.

zephyr · Dec 12, 2019

Here's my 65 Dart GT. Never been off the Southern California roads. (Except for the 6 mos. it was in paint prison)

mbaird · Dec 12, 2019

My 68 was an empty shell I dragged out of afield. Guys at work laughed when I trailered it in to blow the dirt off and out of it with the Hotsy . No pics before but...

After

JDMopar · Dec 12, 2019

CudaChick1968 said:
April 9, 1991:

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... and now.

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I farmed out only the paint and bodywork. If I had to do it again now I'd probably do that too. I love that car like a second kid! It would take hours describing how much that one single $250 purchase over 28 years ago changed my life.

Wow....you grew about 2 feet during that time also!

1969VADart · Dec 12, 2019

Before

During

After

plymouth67 · Dec 12, 2019

Before

plymouth67 · Dec 12, 2019

After

CudaChick1968 · Dec 13, 2019

JDMopar said:
Wow....you grew about 2 feet during that time also!

At 5'0 I could use a couple feet LOL! The first pic is my daughter; then almost six, she's 34 now. She also drives a ................ Lexus. I have NO IDEA where I failed as a mother.

Hyper_pak · Dec 13, 2019

Spring 2009. 1962 Dodge Lancer 770 Station Wagon. No engine, transmission or interior.

Finished 2019.

Search Lancersaurus for the whole story!

plymouth67 · Dec 13, 2019

CudaChick1968 said:
At 5'0 I could use a couple feet LOL! The first pic is my daughter; then almost six, she's 34 now. She also drives a ................ Lexus. I have NO IDEA where I failed as a mother.

At 5ft tall you would be way down there for me at 6'4"... lol

JDMopar · Dec 13, 2019

CudaChick1968 said:
At 5'0 I could use a couple feet LOL! The first pic is my daughter; then almost six, she's 34 now. She also drives a ................ Lexus. I have NO IDEA where I failed as a mother.

LOL....I figured that was probably your young'un. It was too hard to resist the :poke: