My 69 Coronet

Hi Daly,

Try getting on Fabo. A lot more friendly atmosphere, and lots of fabo guys n gals also own B, C, E body cars and D and W series trucks.

I love the speedhut gages, and was all set to go with these in a custom panel for my 67 cuda. I was going to lay it out like a 68 charger, but lucked out on a decent dash frame, and glove box door , and decent stock cluster for my cuda, and ponied up the bucks for all the chromed plastics.

I wasnt happy with the stock backlighting for the gages and the many dim spots in the stock cluster so i bought some peel and stick flexible led strip lighting in green. 12v #5630 led and lined the gage bucket. More uniform lighting and its dimmable down to 7v. This stuff is cheap. I payed $7 off ebay for 5 meters of this stuff. Only used 3 feet inside the cluster.

I ended up restoring my dashboard along with color changing my interior from dark blue to black. I modified my ammeter gage to volts with guts out of a sun voltage gage, and put a fault light in the gage. Also ditched the vibrating points voltage limiter for the gage panel and made one out of a solid state nte960 semiconductor chip.

My project evolved from starting with a fairly stripped shell with a title that i was going to make an oval track racecar for the street ala chrysler "kit kar" , to making it a restored looking sleeper as i was able to aquire needed parts to actually restore it. I love the stock resto look, but with all the mods for performance hidden in plain sight.

Even going so far as to paint the exterior 1967 daffodil yellow, with black interior. Body colored steelies with dog dish hubcaps. Low key is the key

Matt

I thought about rebuilding my gauges, but being a 500 car it has the swept gauge and it wasn't working. I'll try over at FABO and see what kind of info they can get me, Most of the info I want is on drivetrain anyway and it must be the same... Body wise I've done body work before it's not a problem for me. I did finish up getting the new headlights wired in. I'm pretty happy with them. I haven't wired up the halo's yet, and I'm not even sure I'm going to...


I'm going to paint the grille silver before I put it back in. I'm not digging the black and even plan to remove the R/T stripe.

Eventually the car with be painted white with silver accents...

Yeah i saw the blacked out grille on your coronet and i wasnt feelin it either. Somehow these cars dont look good to me either with stuff like that blacked out

Those lights look nice n bright. I need a pair of 7" with hi/low beam all in one for my 67 cuda. Really nice looking ride you have. I love B bodies.

Had a 66 coronet 440 2 door hardtop back in 1986, and a 68 charger 383, and later on a 69 charger R/T clone i built as a 440 4 speed. Killer B's.

never saw this before... WOW. Gotta love the 68-69 mopars

Painted the grille Silver today, if it dries and I can get them on before dinner tonight I'll snap another pic...

Been busy working on the car over the winter. Fab'd the dash up, now I'm trying to decide where I want what gauges. I'm also running the battery cables to the truck and cleaned out where the battery use to be.
I'm very tempted to get a FiTech EFI system for the car right now too. We'll see what the tax man gives back this year.

Busy weekend wiring the car up. I moved the battery to the truck and decided to clean up the head light wiring. I also wired up the halo's in the head lights and for ****'s and giggles, I installed and wired up a 30" light bar I had lying around lol...

Got it running, getting closer...

New tires on today, gotta lower the front end tho...

Yes, I see how old this thread is... it's just my favorite car, PERIOD.