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Running a '59 Custom Royal 361/TF, updated rear end, Disc brakes, oh and I made a small...styling change...muahahaha!!
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| 60 dart - 2013-02-08 10:54 PM
and it's the ultra rare G/T model . more photos please kind sir ------------------------------------------later
Haha, yes...those have to be the most hideous, totally wrong for a 1960 car stripes of all time!!!! I couldn't wait to grind them off.
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Location: atlanta | Guess I better go grind the one's off my 47 Ply BC, hell, I thought they were still "in" |
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Location: Fleetwood, Pa | What year dash have you decided to put in your creation..........I vote for the 60 Chrysler astro globe....... |
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Location: Finger Lakes NY | thats going to look sharp with the 58 front defianatly throw alot of people off !! |
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| sidesho_bob1961 - 2013-02-12 9:49 AM
What year dash have you decided to put in your creation..........I vote for the 60 Chrysler astro globe.......
That is too funny...would you believe I seriously considered a '60-62 Chrysler dash?!? I have one, but decided to not go overboard there, and I really like the Plymouth dash, with it's space age styling. |
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Thanks Jeff, yes it will be interesting to see if non-Forward Look people pick up on it.
It ended up being lots of work modifying that front to accept the '60 body, neither of the door/fender,
hood/cowl gaps were right, had to redo all them. Purely fluke though, the '58 bumper bolted right on in perfect alignment.
Tomorrow is the BIG DAY, I finally paint! 
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| Thanks Brian, it's going to be a fun car. I decided to go with the 58 front, was a tough decision but prefer it a little bit. Course that meant I had to build the center lower valence almost from scratch, make a 58 grille out of two 57's, and made headlight mounts, using 59 Dodge headlight rings. Guess I'm a glutton for punishment! |
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Location: Perth Australia | Isnt it so good when you finally get colour in them
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Location: Williams California | Neat color! Almost reminds me of the Emberglow color on some sixties Fairlanes and such. It will probably look totally different once out in the direct sunlight, though.
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Location: cornpatch county, Southwest IOA | Seems that most people paint there cars early in the build. Probably is an incentive -big leap thing. I would worry about all the scratches and nicks that are bound to happen before the build is done. Last two things I will do is paint and then interior............................MO |
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Location: The Bat Cave, Fairborn, OH | Well, your car will certainly live up to the slogan of the 1957 model "Suddenly it's 1960!" It should be an interesting modification. |
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Location: Michigan | Jeff, I don't have one of these vehicles so I am not sure I can see the modifications you mentioned at the start of the thread. What did you change?
Was it the front fenders? Hard to tell because you don't have a front view 'before' picture posted.
Just curious as you've done a nice job with that body work and those of us ignorant of the subtlies of these years may never notice them.
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Location: Perth Australia | Beltran - 2013-02-17 2:11 AM
Jeff, I don't have one of these vehicles so I am not sure I can see the modifications you mentioned at the start of the thread. What did you change?
Was it the front fenders? Hard to tell because you don't have a front view 'before' picture posted.
Just curious as you've done a nice job with that body work and those of us ignorant of the subtlies of these years may never notice them.
The subtle styling change is a complete front clip swap from a 60 plymouth to a 57 plymouth
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| Hehe, Thanks Mick for filling Beltran in. It must not look too disjointed if it isn't obvious! Thanks for the compliment on my bodywork, it's not an easy car to do bodywork on, let alone to spray...especially the inside of those gargantuan fins, it's impossible to get your spray gun correctly in alignment to that area, just have to kind of shoot it in from a distance! |
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Jeff, I don't have one of these vehicles so I am not sure I can see the modifications you mentioned at the start of the thread. What did you change?
Was it the front fenders? Hard to tell because you don't have a front view 'before' picture posted.
Just curious as you've done a nice job with that body work and those of us ignorant of the subtlies of these years may never notice them.
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Location: Perth Australia | I have been haveing the same fun with the contours of the rear panels on my dodge, I think I got enough on the underside of the round bits where the tail light goes (didnt rub through it when I cut it back.
When its my plymouths turn, I will let you know which one was easier lol
To MO
My dodge is far from complete yet, but had to paint it to help with the inspiration side of things.
I get so bored of doing bodywork, how people do it for a living is totally beyond me.
Just getting paint on it just makes the mind think that your finally getting somewhere on it (to me anyway)
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| Mick, I agree, bodywork is so incredibly boring! My 60 Desoto was no walk in the park to paint either, had to spray inside of fins with gun upside down! |
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| Beltran - 2013-02-18 8:28 PM
Well now it makes sense heh. Was it just that easy? Did the front clip just bolt on?
Haha, I wish! No, the door to fender gaps were different curvature, as was hood to cowl, the hood hinges didn't line up, the rad support
needed new mounts (57 was a single mount in middle, '60 -up was above frame rails). I ended up using the '60 fenderwells, they only
needed slight modification. The front bumper bolted right on, which is bizarre since I went from a framed 57 to a unibody 60!!
It was all worth it, I never would have been happy with that '60 front end (no offense, '60 owners!), and those parts would've needed a
lot of work anyway. These '57 fenders were junk though, I rebuilt the entire front of them, eyebrows to bumper, inside and out. The
lower part that meets the rocker had to be reformed (it was rotted out anyway) to mate up with the rocker, I think it turned out good.
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Location: cornpatch county, Southwest IOA | ttotired - 2013-02-17 1:19 AM
I have been haveing the same fun with the contours of the rear panels on my dodge, I think I got enough on the underside of the round bits where the tail light goes (didnt rub through it when I cut it back.
When its my plymouths turn, I will let you know which one was easier lol
To MO
My dodge is far from complete yet, but had to paint it to help with the inspiration side of things.
I get so bored of doing bodywork, how people do it for a living is totally beyond me.
Just getting paint on it just makes the mind think that your finally getting somewhere on it (to me anyway)
Yes it really does give new life to a project. I did get my body work completed on the main shell and got it into epoxy primer. Then I did my front femders and now the doors are at the body shop. In between all that I got the engine and driveline all done. .........................MO |
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That is really cool! The best of all things Plymouth! Now, which hood ornament do we put on there? :inlove:
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| More progress! Now you guys are really going to think I'm crazy, I downgraded the car trim-wise to a Belvedere
Love the way the bullets compliment the fins, more so than the oversized Fury medallions, I think.
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There's something awesome about the way the whole car looks. Good stance, clean in the cabin (no convertible top hump), well proportioned.
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Location: Jamaica Plain, MA | I had been waiting to see if you were going to do a Sportone thing there. Very cool. You could take a picture and process it to look like old black and white film and people might think it was one of those secret prototype cars. |
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Sorry if I've missed this, but what wheels do you have there, Jeff?
Coddingtons?
They look good...the whole car looks mega good!
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Sorry if I've missed this, but what wheels do you have there, Jeff?
Coddingtons?
They look good...the whole car looks mega good!
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| 57burb - 2013-04-16 3:43 PM
Here's a quick photoshop with some '60 Fury hubcaps and whitewalls.
Thanks guys, and Magnus, yes it's this time of year we get really tired of the snow! The mud just dries up, then it snows again
Holy hell 57Burb, that is so cool!! Thanks! I really need to get photoshop...and learn how to use it! Hmm...very tempting on the whitewalls...One thing I do like about the 17"s is how these cars handle with them on, but the whitewall look is sweet too.
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| Fintail and Son - 2013-04-18 1:18 PM
Well, it IS a Canadian car: '58 front and '60 rear. No way could the factory could have done a better job. Outstanding work!!!! Can't wait to see it finished and on the road.---Fred, Jr.
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Nice interior........
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| Yes, been woking on getting side glass in, I adapted power door lock solonoids from an '85 Chrysler 5th avenue. Super easy to install, at least on '60 up cars. Fixed the broken power window regulators as well. Also been getting new side glass put into channels, and now into the doors and quarters. The new top and cylinders are on their way, new windshield is coming mid-may!
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sidetrim and parking lights onto my 58. I think it would be the final word in "perfect design".
I too, find the 58 Plymouth nose to be a flawless design, where I find the 60 a little too blunt
for the overall slipperiness of the rest of the car. I know "change" was the name of the game
then, but I think ol' Ex could have dialed that nose in a little tighter. Nice work.
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That is one pretty car!
Really nice job, 58dodgeregent!
Now go tear up those roads!
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I only had one Fury emblem, so I figured that was the best place to use it.
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Location: Perth Australia | Those fury emblems are really hard to come by, I think it took me a year to find a set that were any good
They are in my small shiny stuff cupboard waiting to go on
I dont think I have seen anymore since
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| jboymechanic - 2013-08-13 9:12 AM
I really love the front and rear console with 4 bucket seat look, like an early 60s Chrysler 300 or first gen Dodge Charger. But, I prefer a bench so I can snuggle with the Mrs. on a long haul.
I do miss a bench at times for just that reason. That's exactly the look I was going for and where I got the idea, from the 1960 300's. But those bucket seats are awesome, on a long drive they are SO comfortable. |
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