1967 Plymouth Barracuda

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Stripped the dash and blasted the glove box and ash tray.  Hit them with a red scotchbrite and wax and grease remover.  After that, applied some DP90 expoxy primer (black) then good coat of sandable primer (gray).  Next is some wet sanding and color…stay tuned.

Pulled the dashboard to sandblast and paint.

Painted the Glove Box trim Black with Chrome paint lettering/fish.  Not perfect, but the best I can do with my old eyes and small brush..

Since the theme has turned into a candy red and gloss black… I sandblasted and cleaned the dash and glove box bezel.  They were worn out an either needed fixed or replaced.  In case you haven’t looked at the price of replacing the dash bezel recently, I decided to fix/paint them.  They will be gloss black with silver hightlights as seen by the Wiper piece.

Since I upgraded to front disks….none of my wheels had the 3 inch hub clearance required.. so I went with Cragar Black D-Window 15×7 wheels and Cooper Cobra 235/60 and 215/65 tires.

Removed the factory paint from the passenger door hinge area, primered it and installed the passenger door.  Fits really well.

Started by sandblasting and quickly realized that was not going to work… brought out the Harbor Freight $10 grider and some 24-grit discs and went to work.  Took a couple hours, burned up a grinder and a package of discs, but it’s done….sort of.  Six coats of paint seem to help keep the metal in good shape…

Found on forabodies.com..

Stripped the drivers door using a combination of Aircraft paint stripper and a 36-grit disc on my handheld grinder.  The aircraft stripper seemed to only remove the paint that had been added over the factory red.  I had to grind the factory paint off.  3-hours.

Had to do some cleanup in the garage to make some room for progress..