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The biggest modification I had planned was the redesign of the entire rear face of the Coronet. I wanted actual lights, and not a chrome plated tin bezel, to extend the whole way across the rear end. I tried 67 Charger lights, 68 Cougar lights, and finally settled on 1966 Thunderbird tail lights...

The trunk lid is on gas filled lift rods and the mounts for them have a hole for the gas filler pipes to pass through the mounts. Trick. I fabricated a flat trunk floor and welded it in over a new brace underneath. The brace holds up the full fuel cell and the exhaust hangers attach to the lower...

I shaved the filler door. I never understood why Ma MOPAR thought it was a great idea to create beautiful Coke Bottle quarter panels and then slap a great ugly filler door right in the middle of all of that greatness. What a bad design cue. It had to go. Period. I toyed with placing a 69...

There is a steel firewall panel across where the rear seat back would be to separate the cab form the trunk. I replaced the passenger side floor pan. The Audi center pull E Brake was a simple location and mounting drill. The cables are two left hand Coronet cables that meet in the middle. The...

There are "roadster" type panels that begin just behind the bucket seat backs and go to the rear windshield. These came about because In my plans for the rear face of the car I would have a 1970 Road Runner rear bumper so the exhaust could exit through the round back up light holes in the...

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Building the door panels became a challenge the more I got into it. The Audi doors are tiny compared to the Coronet slabs. The panels boosted a curved face that matched the dash end face but wouldn't work on the 67 doors. Too small. So I cut away each element of the Audi panel and ditched the...

Some pics from earlier in this tale that got missed...lol..the shots showing the bumper ends before sectioning, the door upper sections during fabrication and the Express pulled out onto driveway in 2018 to check the rolling status and steering.

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For this floor shift console, I wanted a short throw Pistol grip shifter. They are crazy expensive for an original so I decided to try to make one from scratch. I used 3/16" plate steel for the handle blank and white oak wood from a downed limb I found out in my woods. It took a couple of...

One of the three biggest modifications, the front end, the rear end & the interior, was a long detailed job. The Coronet dash and interior just didn't do it for me. I had always wanted to try installing a modern dash and interior into a 1960's muscle car. Seemed like a doable thing if I could...

The right end of the cowl top turned out have been bashed in by a tree falling on it. They Bondo'd over it. So I cut out the bad spot and welded in new metal and body worked it back to perfection. The close out panels are mounted by slipping Allen head chrome bolts down through the surface and...

I'm months into this project and haven't progressed past the radiator yet! It's going to be a long road! The car came with a 26" radiator so that was a bonus but the trans cooler was tiny. I bought a 1986 Dodge Power Ram pickup a few years later because I wanted the 440 Magnum engine the PO had...

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The 67 Charger grill and headlights are a much larger modification, along with the hardware there's wiring and fabrication as well. I disliked the 54 year old clunky headlight motors because they were...well, clunky and because rebuilt ones were expensive. I shopped around across the planet for...

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To tell this story I'll start at the front of the car and work my way to the rear. So, accordingly, the front bumper is first up. To complete the change to 67 Charger grill and headlight buckets the front bumper would need changing, or modifying. The Coronet bumper had the turn signals on the...

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