Very excited to see you do the full swap from the start. I did follow your Daytona build on Facebook but it’s nicer to have the process in a video. So far this is looking very similar to the process I went with on my body swap which makes sense since your Daytona project really inspired me to do that.
Well I am sure you built model cars as a kid so the concept is pretty simple it's just all those little details that slow you down. Makes you appreciate the massive effort to design and manufacture street cars.
Steve, we knew you are a talented craftman but taking another project this soon tells us you are also an absolute hard working individual. Much respect and admiration. I will follow this new build with full eagerness every week. Best of luck!
Well it just became a good New Year's now! Thanks for sharing your skills with us and taking the time to explain the thought process and the why's. Can't wait til the end!
Hey Steve, awesome new project. Looking forward to following along. Would have pulling the glass first help at all with the roof and panel removal? A windshield cold knife and an Olfa knife would help get the glass out. I know you have the skills to do it. Too late now I know, but something tells me this won’t be your last project.
I have thoroughly enjoyed watching you build the last 2. Looking forward to watching this one come together. Do you think all that foam is going to trap water in these cars and cause rust issues later on?
Hey, those headlights, I'm wondering do you plan on keeping those? I'm working on a 2010 challenger with a smashed front end, I welded on a Chrysler 300's front end, only was 400 bucks from the junkyard for everything I wanted from it and I will need challenger headlights and a few other challenger pieces, would you be willing to sell them?
The headlights are going to be used on this. Also you need to check your radiator core support they are all the same except where the headlights attach. I used a dodge magnum front clip to repair the Challenger for my last project and had to get a Challenger specific core support to carry the headlights properly.
@@SteveMirabelli ok, wow thanks I didn't know, thanks for the tip, and it is fine I'll find headlights, I'm just fixing it to be a challenger, nothing really cool like what you do to them, it is an rt and I'm going to give it a different front end style like a hellcat front end and a very different paint job and a few performance upgrades and new rims but that is kinda it for changes, I find what you do very interesting though and again thanks for the tip
@@carlitoclimbs your welcome. By the way I have another set of headlights I was gonna offer you but they don't come with transformers and by the time you figure in shipping you can get a conventional non HID set up right off eBay for less.
@@SteveMirabelli Makes sense, I'd do the same. I know you get it all the time but you do awesome work. I'd love to built a Daytona similar to yours but I have my hands full with rebuilding 2 70 Roadrunners, a 69 Ply station with a 440-6 and 4 spd and my 71 Charger (5.7 5 spd).
Glad to see a new project, Steve. Can’t wait to see the whole process. It’s going to be fabulous!
We shall see Doug.
Very excited to see you do the full swap from the start. I did follow your Daytona build on Facebook but it’s nicer to have the process in a video. So far this is looking very similar to the process I went with on my body swap which makes sense since your Daytona project really inspired me to do that.
Well I am sure you built model cars as a kid so the concept is pretty simple it's just all those little details that slow you down. Makes you appreciate the massive effort to design and manufacture street cars.
Great job Steve - you are a BUSY man :) ! Hope 2022 is a good one - hang in there and thanks again for taking us along for the ride...
Thanks again Bobby.
Steve, we knew you are a talented craftman but taking another project this soon tells us you are also an absolute hard working individual. Much respect and admiration. I will follow this new build with full eagerness every week. Best of luck!
Thanks for following along. Hope it doesn't get too boring. This video ran a bit long.
Happy New Year! Excited to see another project, watching you work your magic, but I'm beginning to question your sanity....
No need to question it. I have a few bolts backed out for sure.
Another amazing project. Your friend is a lucky man. I hope the next car is a Hellcat rebody project.
Thanks. Well the guy who bought my GTX is having another builder do a Daytona on a Hell Cat so I missed that opportunity.
Well it just became a good New Year's now! Thanks for sharing your skills with us and taking the time to explain the thought process and the why's. Can't wait til the end!
You are welcome.
Wow, great work Steve, you sure work quick!
Thanks but if that were true the GTX would have been done last spring. I appreciate the vote of confidence.
Absolutely amazing!
Thanks Jeff
Here we go folks, strap in and hold on. This is going to be good.
Whoa. Talk about pressure 🤣
Interesting swap I didn't think they would have had the same wheel base.
Just an inch difference.
Hey Steve, awesome new project. Looking forward to following along.
Would have pulling the glass first help at all with the roof and panel removal? A windshield cold knife and an Olfa knife would help get the glass out. I know you have the skills to do it. Too late now I know, but something tells me this won’t be your last project.
I took the time to remove the glass on the Daytona project and it wasn't worth the effort so I will let the junk man deal with it.
I saw another video on TH-cam where they used ford crown Victoria as the base for a charger body
That is a pretty common thing these days.
I have thoroughly enjoyed watching you build the last 2. Looking forward to watching this one come together.
Do you think all that foam is going to trap water in these cars and cause rust issues later on?
It already has.
Eager to watch this one transform. What is your expected time frame?
No earthly clue.
Did he keep the old vin number or used the 68 vin
The car is vinned as the modern Challenger. It makes sense in that the car is just that with a different skin.
Hey, those headlights, I'm wondering do you plan on keeping those? I'm working on a 2010 challenger with a smashed front end, I welded on a Chrysler 300's front end, only was 400 bucks from the junkyard for everything I wanted from it and I will need challenger headlights and a few other challenger pieces, would you be willing to sell them?
The headlights are going to be used on this. Also you need to check your radiator core support they are all the same except where the headlights attach. I used a dodge magnum front clip to repair the Challenger for my last project and had to get a Challenger specific core support to carry the headlights properly.
@@SteveMirabelli ok, wow thanks I didn't know, thanks for the tip, and it is fine I'll find headlights, I'm just fixing it to be a challenger, nothing really cool like what you do to them, it is an rt and I'm going to give it a different front end style like a hellcat front end and a very different paint job and a few performance upgrades and new rims but that is kinda it for changes, I find what you do very interesting though and again thanks for the tip
@@carlitoclimbs your welcome. By the way I have another set of headlights I was gonna offer you but they don't come with transformers and by the time you figure in shipping you can get a conventional non HID set up right off eBay for less.
How do you deal with the VIN plate? I don't know how the new car's plates are affixed but they look like stickers whereas the 68 has a riveted plate.
I just cut the steel out around the vin sticker as wide as I can so when I re weld it to the new dash I don't burn up the sticker.
@@SteveMirabelli Makes sense, I'd do the same. I know you get it all the time but you do awesome work. I'd love to built a Daytona similar to yours but I have my hands full with rebuilding 2 70 Roadrunners, a 69 Ply station with a 440-6 and 4 spd and my 71 Charger (5.7 5 spd).
@@MH-rb7lp that is a handful for sure.
@@SteveMirabelli Yeah its a bit daunting but it keeps me busy.
Do you have contact info?
stevemirabelli@yahoo.com