76 Feather Duster, A904, green on green(originally)

I bought the car in 2003 for $500 and when I did it was in bad shape. Both fenders were mangled, busted grille, had been sitting for a year, trashed interior, no working gauges, etc. I've changed a few things, but haven't gotten rid of anything I took off the car. I have been working on this car very slowly since I got it and since then it has gone through:

Super Six with new BBD
Straight fenders
Gone through about 3 grilles(some shop broke one of them!)
Replaced plenum cowl
Replaced sheet metal between tail lights
high back split bench
Completely rewired with low mileage '76 wiring
Lots of interior stuff, near perfect dash pad
A little bit o' custom work to the original gauge cluster
Lots of aux work in the engine bay (oil pump & sending unit, water pump, timing set, oil pick up and new pan gasket, valve adjustment[naturally])
Buffed down a crappy white paint job and made it primer black
Recently rebuilt entire front suspension with sway bar added and 892/893 torsion bars
Rebuilt rear suspension with 5 leaf springs


I recently, and for the first time EVER, got a working speedometer and a correctly adjusted choke.

Next up is a new windshield, front floor pans, new passenger rear quarter, new distributor, and the manifolds will be planed and reinstalled with my Aussie gaskets that are in the mail. After the body is straight I may just give it a DIY paint job.

Unfortunately, or maybe fortunately, I haven't really kept track of the money I've spent on it. Probably way more than I could sell it for right now.

Slant on,
Billy

I just got my recovered seats back from an upholstery shop today. I think the seats look pretty good.






Here is a pic of my dash with a steering wheel I found in an Aspen and white gauges.

Nice job, interior looks good also. How about pics of the outside?

Looks good, your sister car sits over on Market St. in Salem,except she's a manual OD car (with A/C and the deluxe trim dash) and the green has seen the sun way too often...


-D.Idiot

Thanks guys. Mine actually came with A/C also, but I have pulled it to install a later style compressor from a Volare and have the system fitted for r-134. And when I got it, it sure had had enough of the sun. Most interior plastic was trashed and the dash pad looked like the Grand Canyon.

Here is a pic of my gauges at night. They aren't quite as bright as the photo would lend one to believe(2 second exposure), but they are brighter than stock bulbs because I got colored LEDs for the green and white LEDs for the turn signals(I cut some blue plastic inserts for these), oil and brake lights, and high beams indicator.




Here is what my car looks like right now. It is a cell phone pic, and the car looks nicer than it is because the primer almost looks like it is painted when it rains!

Nice job to the dash? better on the eyes I'm sure. Keep up the good work. Talk to you soon. Don

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Yesterday afternoon:



A glass shop owes my father(lawyer) money so I get the windshield replaced today for free - new glass, gasket/lockstrip, and molding clips. I had to do the body work though(I severely doubt I'll get a warranty against leaks!) Spent all day in their yard out in the hot sun working on it(yeah, they didn't give me garage space).

This shows my attempt at fixing windshield channel rust. Welded in little strips of sheet metal and bondo'd little imperfections. I had to do both sides. I only took pics of the passenger side though. Guess I wasn't thinking straight on account of the heat.

I've had a cracked windshield as long as I've owned this car. My car leaked like a sieve. I hope my amateur bodywork does the job. If so, then I can replace the swiss cheese floor pans up front.

And yes, I obviously still have a little body work to do below the glass there!!!

Later,
Billy

I saw Billy's white-face gauges a few weeks ago in Denton, when he drove down to the "Mopar Mini-Nats". Very cool...

Jerry

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