Worked on some more knick knacks. Nothing earth shattering this weekend. I decided to start investigating what I would need to keep on the forward door jamb area and got rid of the right side kick panel. I really just need the jamb post itself and nothing more forward of it. Dane made a suggestion about lengthening the hood to eliminate the cowl area at the base of the windshield. I think I am going to see if I can make that work since it will make the wiper motor accessible from the engine bay instead of buried under the dash. We'll see.  Anyway I cleaned up the inside of the quarter panels and separated them from the outer wheel tubs as a part of the process of replacing rusty/damaged metal. I finished replacing the lower front quarter panel with some new metal giving it a slight kick down and flare out ala the old stock car version of this area.

Well I have been idle for a while due to some medical issues in the family. Just got back to work. I finally finished up the inner support system for the sail panels. I really wanted to do this because I feel this is maybe the way the factory would have done it if the window plug had not been an aftermarket afterthought. This also gets rid of a few pounds of excess metal. Since the 06 is a 5,000 lb car and this old body is not lighter that the 06 I felt any weight savings would help performance.
 I capped off the stock gas hole in favor of using the side mount door from the 06 mainly because while I love the way the cap on the 68 looks I am not a fan of drizzling gas on the quarter panel if I can help it. Also I don't have one. icon_smile_big
The last two pictures are of the piece I had to make to replace the flange that holds the window wiskers. Lucky for me the other side was intact so that I had a good hole pattern to follow.

Now it's really starting to look like nothing.

Well I still have a lot to do on the 68 but I kind of got going on striping out the SRT-8 and now I have it braced to start chopping. I bolted 1/4" plates to the seat belt locations in the rear of the car and to the door jamb where the dash sub assembly fastens. I then welded some 1"x1" .083 wall steel to connect the front and rear so that when the upper part of the body is removed the center won't sag. I ran two verticals from these bars down to the seat belt bolt up on the rocker to keep the upper bar from bowing up or down. Lastly I tied them together side to side to keep them from spreading.

I also put a cross tie from rear shock tower to tower to keep them from rolling inward.