Sunday, June 21, 2015

Well I am rounding third base and heading for home on the interior panels. I finished fabricating the right side back door panel and also bondoed and covered the left side. While the front door panels were way more complex I was able to work on them with the door on saw horses. These had to be made in the car sitting kind of twisted. I am pretty happy with the results thus far. I have some little do-dads to attend to once I get done with the interior panels before I move into the body work. I have timed it just right because it is getting nice and hot here so as you know that is the best time to be covered in bondo.





Sunday, June 7, 2015

 I finished covering the over head console and the two halves of the head liner and fit them up into the car. They will have to come back out because I don't want to expose them to the bondo/ paint mess. Also I need to put some sound deadener on the bottom side of the roof skin. Besides checking them for fit I needed to install the head liner so that I could fabricate the rear door panels which over lap and capture the bottom of the head liner.




Since the chassis was a 4 door and I had to remove the "B" pillar hinge post I knew the stock carpet would have issues in that area. Luckily all I had to do was to make an inner threshold cover to deal with the transition. I made this out of .045 steel and it will be painted out with some trim black.




The last of the head scratching scratch fabrication jobs on this car is the rear door panel covering the seatbelt reel and the window motor. As with the front door panels I went at it piecemeal . Kind of sneaking up on it if you will . I have it mostly worked out. All I lack now is finishing.











Thursday, June 4, 2015

Well I am still working on the head liner. I finished the metal work on the left side and removed it from the car.
I used the Trex material to create a round over edging for the transitions from the headliner to the side and rear window openings.
I temporarily taped the pieces in while the epoxy dried.





The right side head liner went a little quicker as I was able to use the patterns from the left side.
I removed the right side and glued in the edging as with the left side.
I assembled all three pieces upside down on some saw horses so that I could bondo in the transitions.
The last photo is of the left side with the headliner fabric glued to it.