"Calif Bill" wrote in message
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Actually built some narrow plates to go inside the folded sheetmetal
frame. Can not exactly remember how I did it. But towed a 2800# vette on
a tandem trailer with spare wheels. Worst part of the beautiful POS was
the lack of brakes 10" drums, and lack of radiator size. Could not use
the AC on real hot days.


Don't know about the '68 models but in '69 the R/T's that had either the 426
or the 440 HO had disks on the front and an oversized, 26" radiator. They
were part of what was called the "Hemi Package". The brakes were the most
difficult items to get when we were re-doing the front end. They are big,
four piston caliper types that are very hard to find and few shops can get
parts to rebuild them. I had called Smith Bros. Restorations who
recommended upgrading everything ... rotors, spindles and calipers to those
from the readily available 1970 and later models that were two piston types.
We lucked out though after six weeks of searching found a new set of
rotors, four piston calipers and pads of the original type. Got them from a
small, off the wall garage in Georgia.

Eisboch