Well, welcome to FEBO from the desert. Definitely get the VIN situation fixed before speeding any money on the thing! Best of luck tracking down previous owners. You might get lucky and someone has the original Dash and/or fender tag!
@JDMopar is spot on which VIN you should be looking for...
Making a Chevy out of your Mopar? No thanks but several people have done it. Torsion bar suspension is actually superior to coil over. Just harder to swap out bars than springs. With TTI and Doug making great headers for our Mopars, I see no need for the Chevy Coilover crap! But that's just me...
"So I asked the shop to do a standard valve job and they told me they do not do iron heads and it would take 2 weeks if they sent them out and cost me $800."
What? Can't do iron heads? And wanted to send them out and to charge you over twice the price of the other shop? Don't go to that shop...
I too replaced the white door panels with black ones. For whatever reason, the factory plastic just starts flaking off in the blazing sun. A convertible would be worse I think with the white panels deteriorating.
Maybe if Legendary made the boot cover an inch wider would work! I do know every...
Melling VS150 or Qualcast 32672 are very close to the factory stock 318 springs. Are you planning to change just the one spring?
If it were me, I'd order a full set of 16 springs and replace them all.
In the factory body service manual, there's a whole section "Sealing" on where all the sealer was applied. It even tells you the angle to hold the gun nozzle when applying the sealer.
Should be very close to the 71 Body Service manual link below. Someone might have the 73 pdf...
Maybe a warm California day will help? Glad to know the blow dryer helped. Sad there seems to be an issue with Legendary's cover. Are they a member here? Please let them know the issue. We all depend on them for their good quality parts and they need to know!
Side note: 440 Source listens to us...
Side note, to all reading this post, if you have an electrical problem, Personal Message @Challenger RTA first. The guy is a wizard on electrical stuff! 🙂