What did you do with your ebody/Mopar today?

[YellowThumper]

Covered it back up after a couple trips to show covering 220 miles.
Morning rides in to Spring Fling were good.
Home not so.
2 hours of stop and go traffic each time...

[YellowThumper]

Show photo dump.

[soundcontrol]

Today I got the connectors done on my wife's 65 Barracuda.
Primer, paint and some more undercoating now.
Don't like undercoating but this is not a resto project, just wanna get it OK and running.

[MoparCarGuy]

Show photo dump.

The van photo made me think of The Green Ghosts on Scooby Doo. https://scoobydoo.fandom.com/wiki/Green_Ghosts_(A_Night_of_Fright_is_No_Delight)
I wonder if this was intentional in lieu of a "Mystery Machine". Very cool, either way.
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[jimynick]

Son Nick came home to detail his mother's car and the weather was so good, that we got the old Challenger down off her skates, ran it outside and washed the dust off 'er, dumped some gas (at today's prices about $12 worth) down her throat and turned the key......click! Jesus, and I'd actually had the trickle charger on it and thought we were all set! Rolled the big charger over and started the old gal up. Thinking a run down the road might help the battery situation, I parlayed that into a trip to the farther away liquor store and bought mommy a few btls of bingo and a couple of bunches of tulips (she's Dutch ya know). I managed to burn about a 1/4 tank of gold, I mean gas and got some nice compliments from guys seeing the car. Back home with wine, flowers and a big grin on my stupid face. A good start I'd say. 

[Cuda_mark]

Ran the Hemi for the first time ever in the convertible. I posted a link to it in my restoration thread. Major milestone!!! I'd have the car on the road this summer if it weren't for the backlog at Legendary. I'll probably end up putting a junk seat in it just to be able to drive it around until the seta covers arrive in December.

[DrEamer]

It has been over a year since I have done any real work on the Challenger. My life had other things to deal with, and with those things resolved, it is time to get going again. Today I finished fitting the front frame rail repair section. Next will be panel laminating it in place, then finishing with up the welding it in. The first picture is part of what was removed.  I think I used enough C-clamps.

[gzig5]

Made it into a convertible, sort of.  Long ways to go.

[Swamp Donkey]

Test fit my motor.  I have questions.  Boy, do I ever have questions! 


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[cuda hunter]

Sorry @cuda hunter all tags were "missing".

He sure has all well-trained to look.   

yes he has.

Funny.  Apparently I have not looked at this thread since October.  Thanks for letting me know.

It's unfortunate that we don't have an alert bar that tells us that we have unread posts. 
I know there is a  new threads tab, but I miss a bunch of stuff with this set up.

Since I'm talking on the "what have you done" thread, here is a picture of what I just did.  Moved a few cars to a different garage. 

[jimynick]

I threw in the towel on the old battery and went out to CTC and bought on of their Nautilis group 27 batterys and managed to pay for it with my CTC money, Yea! Took it home and installed it, and if the case'd been 1/8" taller, I wouldn't've been able to get the battery holdown back on! 800 CCAs so we should be good to go- literally. 

[Brads70]

Well after 12 years I had to replace one of my amber headlights . I guess thats an ok lifespan. I had spares so I replaced them both. Now I'm heading out with the Challenger to one of my favorite breakfast spots, that has just opened again after the last 2-3 years shutdown fiasco!   

Weather is pretty nice, might roll out the Javelin and start back at it after a long dormant winter .

[bentpshrods]

       Had the grand kids over the weekend, they do nothing but fight and yell. My nerves could not handle it today so i jumped in the cuda and left for the day. Ended up in the mountains enjoying a nice spring day. We had a cold, wet spring so the flowers are a bit behind but did find this big field of purple flowers. The sunflowers are not quite up to full bloom yet but this area has full hillsides of them. Might have to go back next weekend for them.  A guy rode up to me on a bicycle and we were talking when he asked if I would like a pic of me with the car. Hadn't even thought of that--but it was a great idea.  Great day and I kept my blood pressure down.  Put in just over 200 miles.   

[Mr Lee]

       Had the grand kids over the weekend, they do nothing but fight and yell. My nerves could not handle it today so i jumped in the cuda and left for the day. Ended up in the mountains enjoying a nice spring day. We had a cold, wet spring so the flowers are a bit behind but did find this big field of purple flowers. The sunflowers are not quite up to full bloom yet but this area has full hillsides of them. Might have to go back next weekend for them.  A guy rode up to me on a bicycle and we were talking when he asked if I would like a pic of me with the car. Hadn't even thought of that--but it was a great idea.  Great day and I kept my blood pressure down.  Put in just over 200 miles.

Love this.  Sounds like an ideal day to me.  Beautiful pics too. 
How long do you have to drive before you're out in the mountains (away from everyone)?  Just curious.  I live in the most densely populated state in the country (New Jersey) and there's just people and cars everywhere.  I 'm right next to the ocean so I can only go west and have to drive a good forty minutes before I can find some nice desolate farm country roads, and even then there's not too many of them.  I dream of living somewhere I can just take the car and motorcycle out and not see too many other people.  One day.

[bentpshrods]

       Idaho is still pretty rural state. If you go north from Boise 35 miles you are in the mountains. Go up Hwy 55 over the hill and thru Horseshoe Bend you start up the north fork of the Payette river and are in the pine trees. This is where I do my peperroni run.  Boise is in  what they call the high desert area. Go south 30 miles and you are in wide open sage brush country. You can follow the Snake river into the canyon lands. Hundreds of miles of open country to run around in. Just take your pic----trees or sage brush. The only down side is today's price of gas. When I'm out there I have a pretty heavy right foot and I'm only getting 10 to 12 mpg.  But its more smiles per gallon than cost for me.