I know it looks like I am posting the same pictures I just did but a lot has gone on since I last posted. I have blocked the entire car and polyester filled a ton of imperfections. So that took forever as I can only stand about 5 to 6 hours of that kind of workout.  So I re primed the car and put another guide coat on. Time to block again. Hopefully I won't be finding to many more low spots.  I have been looking at a bunch of colors out in the wild but until you spray out a large sample it is hard to tell if they will work well together. I wanted to stay with Dodge late model colors but that did not work out. The sides will be an 04 Dodge Stratus color which is Graphite Metallic. The top will end up being a 2014 GM Color called Ashen Grey. It is near impossible to see from the pictures but the first two work pretty well with each other and the Graphite color is darker than it appears in the picture. I really wanted to use the third color down as it is a 2013 Dodge Challenger color but while it looks blackish /grey when it stands alone it appears dark reddish /brown next to the Graphite Metallic. The last color which was a Toyota color called Magnetic Gray Metallic has a lot of red in it too so it did not work.

I wanted to put some side markers in so I got the 06 side markers and worked them around so that I could fit them into the sides of the front air dam. At work we use .060 Carbon fiber panels and I got some cut off pieces and epoxied them together to built the front air dam.
I got the first coat of primer on the car and it showed up a lot of my body work short comings. I have a bit more work to do than I thought but it is getting there.

So I am down to finishing out the fit of the nose and the headlight doors and such. Hopefully I will be moving on to some primer soon but I can't say when as I will be entertaining family next week so this goes on a little vacation for a while. After that it will be time to tear it down again and prep and paint the door jambs, the under side of the trunk lid and hood, the insides of the fenders and the back side of the nose.

I have gotten to a point where I have to put the nose back on the car to do the bondo work up front so I took a break from working over the rest of the car to clean up the bottom of the nose while it is still off the car. Also I had to finish fabricating the grill.
I used some 1/2"x 1/8" hot rolled flat steel to build the perimeter. I then took some 1/4" x  1/4" stainless steel screen and welded it to the back side of the grill surround. Finally I secured it into the opening with some stainless oval head screws.

Haven't been posting because there is not much to see. Just a bunch of bondo work. Most of it is on the floor. Been at it every weekend though. I am not a pro so this will take a good bit longer than most folks here could do. Plus old muscles don't like to block for very long.

Nothing really exciting to report here. Just bondo work. I needed a little inspiration so I mounted the wing to make sure there was a good fit to the quarter tops.
I also had to stop and deal with something that I had been kicking down the road. Turns out the Dodge Daytona is a very long car so I had to add a 3 foot bump out to my makeshift spraybooth. I had also been putting off working on finishing the closeout doors but the Bondo is everywhere now so I had to stop working on the car and get this handled.

It feels good after staring at this car in bare metal for so long to be finally mudding in the transitions.