Repairable? Or am I looking for a donor body?
Discussion
mrzigazaga said:
Have you had extra scrim foam put on arm rests and centre consoles?...Looks really comfy...Is it leather?....
Looks lovely..The wood work looks like a tasty chunk of toffee...Yummy...
Zig, When the body was off I stripped it back to the bare fibreglass, removed what glue i could, sanded and then covered the parcel shelf, trans tunnel (probs an inch thick here), inside sills and footwells and the boot with sheets of upholstry foam offcuts that I got from a local business for $60. Then glued new carpet over the lot with hi temp stuff. All new edge trimming as the old stuff needed shooting and burying. Looks lovely..The wood work looks like a tasty chunk of toffee...Yummy...
The door skins and seats were done circa 2004 professionally, and all the walnut french polished then too. That's been sitting on a bookshelf for a decade waiting for the rebuild so its still perfect.
All the vinyl is original circa 1984, I just cleaned it. Some of the stitching (door tops) is tired but nothing new is a perfect match so I'm not touching it. Hardtop was recovered too as that had holes on the corners....
I didn't want the car to look (or smell) new, but I wanted it as tidy and sorted as possible. There was next to no rust, just in the door hinge plates, but every bit of steel has been blasted and painted 2 coats by hand with POR-15 (that was a P.I.T.A I can tell you). unlikely it will see any rain though out here.
I'm amazed that no bushes squeak and the the ride is actually quite good. Got the new Gaz shocks set midrange for now and they might stay there.
Oops sorry, got carried away :-o
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