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Title: 73 rocker bend?
Post by: fireguyfire on May 09, 2019, 03:55:26 PM
Going over my recently purchased 73 challenger and noticed this "fold" in the rear of the drivers side inner rocker.
I'm assuming this isn't supposed to be there as the other side doesn't have the fold but I thought I would check before I fix it.



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Title: Re: 73 rocker bend?
Post by: Bullitt- on May 09, 2019, 04:13:36 PM
I think what your seeing is a drain which should be there... there's a couple along the bottom of the rocker if I recall correctly 
Title: Re: 73 rocker bend?
Post by: fireguyfire on May 09, 2019, 04:35:40 PM
For some reason my phone is fighting me as far as posting photos.
Definitely not a vent opening; you could put 2 fingers into the inside of the rocker at that rear bottom corner; the rocker was full of sand; obviously the car has been driven on gravel roads lots in its past!


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Title: Re: 73 rocker bend?
Post by: Bullitt- on May 09, 2019, 04:37:41 PM
Nothing you could put a finger in.... maybe a large flat blade screwdriver ..

found this photo looking straight up at a drain, maybe a couple of inches long at most

(https://i.postimg.cc/MH1V2xWb/DSC01660.jpg)
Title: Re: 73 rocker bend?
Post by: Bullitt- on May 09, 2019, 04:41:10 PM
another.... just in front of rear wheel opening I believe

(https://i.postimg.cc/FzysF654/DSC01671.jpg)
Title: Re: 73 rocker bend?
Post by: fireguyfire on May 09, 2019, 04:42:52 PM
That's where it is; that inner rocker corner that is open for the vent has been bent inward and upwards making a bigger opening into the rocker in that corner.
Thanks for the photo; I will try and put it back as it should be


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Title: Re: 73 rocker bend?
Post by: Racer57 on May 10, 2019, 06:32:02 AM
Looks to me like the car is getting ready to shed its skin and turn into a Cuda.  :D
Title: Re: 73 rocker bend?
Post by: gzig5 on May 10, 2019, 01:03:29 PM
Quote from: Racer57 on May 10, 2019, 06:32:02 AM
Looks to me like the car is getting ready to shed its skin and turn into a Cuda.  :D

Ugly caterpillar into a beautiful butterfly.   :D