1974 Chrysler Valiant Charger

[bazbiker]

As the Aussie Charger topic has been raised i thought i should get a build thread up of mine!

I bought it last Xmas and this is how it looked then

[bazbiker]

Decided to get torne in to it, so started stripping it in February and found loads of holes and bad repairs





I couldnt get any panels in the UK so i just had to make my own

[bazbiker]

All four corners of the boot area were the same

[bazbiker]

And both A pillers



They were stuffed with polistirine and then filled over




So replaced it all with metal

[bazbiker]

Floor pan


Cut out


Made a new one


welded it in


and sealed it


then some red oxide

[bazbiker]

A few more repairs to the floor and a compleate red oxcide

[bazbiker]

After months of cutting, making new repair panels and welding them in i bare metaled most of the car due to all the lares of paint hiding the lines


then bar coated it

[bazbiker]

Then in to Primer






Then a white base coat

[bazbiker]

first coat of orange


second or third coat (cant remember)


getting there now


Out in the day light again for loads of wet flatting (the worst job i had to do on it as its so big!)

[bazbiker]

Time for the stripe work and start getting things like the glass back on

[twincammy]

nice work dude. it amazes me, the ingenuity that folk use to fill panels with polystyrene.

[bazbiker]

Finnished and at its first show


Took us 5 months start to finish working on it at weekends and nights.

I also fitted complete new steering and front suspension bushes, ball joints and arms. as well as a new exhaust system and engine dress up kit

[dirtyroger]

That is stunning! Good work man... when i first saw the orange i thought god no, but it looks ace!

[Camp Davy]

have fond memorys of these back home cheered me up seeing yours have the original advert cheers davy

[ToolsnTrack]

I think i remember seeing this on DAT a while back? Always wondered where it ended up!

Looking good, will need to see it in the flesh sometime...

[retrolegends]

Awesome mate, lovin the orange and the stripes.

[waveman1500]

Nice car. That looks like some serious work you've done on it, but these do love to rust like almost no other car. When they were new they only came with a 12 month warranty and I've seen reports of people getting rust cut out and welded up under their warranty!

Just out of interest was it originally an orange car?

[sowen]

That is an amazing transformation, and done in 5 months

Brilliant looking car

[HoTWire]

That is just wonderful!

[bazbiker]

Jan 23, 2011 9:16:40 GMT waveman1500 said:

Nice car. That looks like some serious work you've done on it, but these do love to rust like almost no other car. When they were new they only came with a 12 month warranty and I've seen reports of people getting rust cut out and welded up under their warranty!

Just out of interest was it originally an orange car?

It was originally yellow but I'm not a fan of yellow cars so decided on a one off special mix orange and some original RT stripes with a twist of my own to make it the way I wanted it to look