1967 Plymouth Barracuda

Archive for the ‘Body’ Category

Re-installed the torsion bars and set the ride height close to where it was.  It’s now ready to roll onto a trailer and take it to it’s new home.

The new gas tank has arrived with the complete kit. Tank/filler grommet/strap with hardware and pickup with hardware. Good value from Ebay (In my opinion)… Shout out to tomsclassic eBay Store.  The link to his eBay store is:

http://myworld.ebay.com/tomsclassic?ssPageName=ADME:L:OU:US:1181

We will be moving to a new house soon and I needed to get some new tires in order to move the car. The tires on the car are dry rotted and two of them have actually exploded.. Purchased the cheapest 195-65-14 tires that they had…

Pulled the gas tank… will not be using this one. The pickup was completely rotted and rusted wide open. Ordered a new tank/pickup.

Made good progress today. Ben fabricated a support brace for the 4-speed z-bar. This reinforces the inner fender wall area where the stud attached to the ball-stud comes through. It was welded to the inner fender and also the frame rail…and provides a stronger brace than the factory one. It was fabricated out of 2 pieces of angle iron and a solid piece of steel to connect them all together. After it was welded and re-installed, I sprayed it with an undercoating so that it would just ‘disappear’.

Re-installed the steering column and all of the steering components. Need to order Outer Tie-Rod ends.

36-grit grinding disks used to remove paint on the drivers door jam area…. and some rattle can self-etching primer (for now) to cover the bare metal.

Stripped the drivers side quarter panel.  Less paint on this body panel as it appears to have been replaced at some point.  Only a few minor injuries to my hands… and one burned up grinder.

This is a potential design for the barracuda… a cheesy pencil sketch…. This would be a deck stripe very similar to a “Super Bee” that would wrap around the rear and instead of the Bee…it’d be the barracuda emblem centered on each quarter panel… The Bee-acuda?

Needed to replace the brake line from the distribution block to the back… the line was 47in. and the replacement piece was 51in.. didn’t want to cut it and have to flare it, so I created a little detour taking up the 4inches.

Some pictures of the current status… Oct 2012.

Making room for the re-popped 4-speed floor hump….