Let's tear down!!!

Also look under later C-bodies. Might have to trim the bar...but it would be easier then trying to stretch. ;)
 
I prefer the factory style mounting, but the Addco is probably a little stiffer unit.

Heh... I said "stiffer unit." :D

Next time I'm out there, I'll see if I still have the one from my old M-body squad car and measure it. I don't think I do, but it might be in the grass behind the garage.
 
Which is the factory style mounting? The one I have the open end of the "U" faces the front of the car and the cross bar is back by the rear. Other ones I've seen are mounted the other way. I've looked at a bunch of pics lately too...


Stiffer unit :D
 
I think it depends on the year, actually. I can't recall what year it changed, but I'm thinking maybe '75. As I recall, the '72 bar that I sold to beeper was straight across the middle rather than having a U-bend. I think the one from the M-car was the same way, but that's a different body style, too. I have a lot on my mind at the moment so I'm not thinking too well.
 
I meant the shape of the bar. The dip on the later ones was to clear the 9.25 rear, at least that's what I read.

Let me clarify, the ends of the bar that I have has brackets that clamp to and bolt through the frame rails, and the links are on the piece that runs parallel to the rear axle. I've seen others that the ends of the bar attach to the rear spring mounts and the side to side part is in front of the rear axle.

I was curious if one design was preferred over, or better than the other
 
I was just looking at pics of my own stuff because I'm frazzled at the moment, and the M-body setup unit was the second configuration you describe... links behind the centerline of the rear axle next to the shock's lower mounting point with frame brackets ahead and inside, but the "dip" went over the rear axle. It definitely would not work on your car, but then again, looking at the setup on the Chicken, it wouldn't either. Of course, you could section the bar if you're still planning on a spring relocation, but I'm not too keen on cutting and welding spring steel. A rear swaybar is a torsion bar, and I've had a torsion bar snap. It's violent, and to have a swaybar break mid-turn at speed (the only time it's going to do so) would upset the handling so badly you'd likely crash.

I can't think of a single factory setup that would work on a spring-relocation car, and I don't think the Addco would either.
 
I'll hold off on it for now, maybe when the relocation is done (btw do you still have that C body housing?) I'll look into one of the rear NASCAR style bars with the splined, removable ends. They're made up in different lengths and diameters.
 
Definitely dumping in the motor this weekend :dance:



Oh yea,on a side note Doc, somebody ordered your car back in late '70. '71 Charger SE, 440/4spd, black interior, black canopy roof, and A4. I read a little something about it yesterday in MCG, I guess it's going to be restored. The reason it was brought up was it was sold at White Bear Dodge.
 
The bitch of owning that car was you pretty-much have to restore it 100%. I'd rather have fun with a 318 car.
 
Like I've told you previously, you'd have shit bricks at the sight of my bedroom in Atlanta. I had so much NOS and original stuff for that car, I was afraid to leave it in the garage. I was afraid that someone might hear about it and show up in the middle of the night. I used a '71 Go-Wing as a coat hook and had an NOS Ramcharger hood panel against the wall next to my bed. Underneath the same bed was nearly the entire interior.
 
Dr.Jass said:
Like I've told you previously, you'd have shit bricks at the sight of my bedroom in Atlanta. I had so much NOS and original stuff for that car, I was afraid to leave it in the garage. I was afraid that someone might hear about it and show up in the middle of the night. I used a '71 Go-Wing as a coat hook and had an NOS Ramcharger hood panel against the wall next to my bed. Underneath the same bed was nearly the entire interior.
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Damn!
 
Some of the interior stuff under the bed included an NOS radio-delete Rallye cluster bezel and NOS housing and brackets for the floor-mounted cassette player, which is where I was going to put the CD player (it was a radio-delete car). The used airbox for the hood and NOS flapper door and vacuum solenoid were in my closet. An NOS "Super Bee" dash emblem rested in my drawer (price one of those). You wouldn't believe the money I poured into parts for that car. Then again, considering what I did with the LeBaron effort, you might.

It's all gone now, but I'd kill to have some of it back, particularly that cluster bezel and dash emblem... if only to sell them again! :D
 
That bezel has to be a really rare piece. Including yours I've seen or heard of 3. One was a Roadrunner and the other was a '71 Hemi Charger R/T.

That Bee emblem isn't cheap! I wouldn't mind having one I just can't justify the cost of buying one.

Has that Bee been restored?
 
I've seen exactly one dash bezel more rare than that one: same year, radio and heater delete. It was supposedly Hawaii only, which really doesn't make sense due to the humidity, but there was a part number for it in the books. I thought the damned thing was a rumor like the '71 Challenger T/A until I saw one (the bezel, that is). It was in as bare-bones a stripper as you've ever seen in a '71 R/T... and yes, it was sold new in HI. If memory serves, it was an E5 car, column-shift auto with a Super Track Pack and literally nothing else.

No one's heard a peep about my Bee since August 1998, when my roommate sold it after I sold it to him. There are only 9 documented sunroof '71 Bees and I don't think mine was one of them.
 
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