The Yankee Express restomod build thread.

[Ghostrider 67]

On the Audi doors there are clear ' puddle' lights along the bottom, facing down, and 'marker lights'
in red on the rear edge facing rearward. I made a template of the holes for these and cut places for them on the Dodge doors. The Audi also had wiring pass through boots in the doors to the cab. I did the same for these.
Among the other mods up front were a smooth firewall and inner fender close out panels. Smoothing the firewall meant moving the wiper motor from it's indented perch atop the wall to under the dash. Also it meant filling in that indent. The close outs are to smooth the area and to hide wiring behind.
The next challenge was to mate the Audi steering wheel to the 67 steering gear while missing starter and headers on the big block 440 engine. It took a Borgeson knuckle and a Flaming River D shaft to do it. I added a dual chamber master cylinder for the front disc brakes I swapped in. The deep dash means the seats needed to be mounted that same 13" rearward from the stock mounting pads. Good thing i have long legs!
One of my mods is the addition of roadster type panels behind the bucket seat tops. To accomplish this I bought a used 1967 Plymouth Sport Fury rear seat 'topper' panel. It's shaped like a set of wings that hug the seat backs. It's the right width because they are both Chrysler B Bodies. I jus mounted it behind the front buckets instead of the rear seat buckets. lol.
I fabricated steel panels that are hand formed to match the 'wings' and a trough panel to go down the center.