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Getting ready to cover garnish moldings and arm rest in ultra-leather.
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Working on the door panels. Don't have pic showing much detail, but the slats have been glued in place. Then the tweed material is glued down and stapled to the first panel.
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Here the upper and lower panels cover with ultra leather, then glued and stapled to the first panel, for the finish panel, with arm rest installed.
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Pic 1 As viewed from the pass. side.
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Templets made so I can get my glass cut.
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Here I've installed the glass and rubber around the edges.
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Here is a good shot with the new cover on the top, and the truck in the background.
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Top on the truck and showing taillight setup.
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Tomorrow I'll post about the top interior with lots of pics. Jim
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Looks really good! Congrats!!!
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Turned out really nice. I will admit that I have seen more bad roadster conversions than good so usually don't care for them. Yours has just the right amount of chop and great profile. |
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:lol::lol:, yeah I wish I could get things done that fast, but I'm not a TV show. I agree with you about the roadster conversions, I've seen several I just did not care for. Thanks about my job, I spent a lot of time looking at real convertibles, to try and match that look. Picture of clips isn't good, can't get it to focus real close up. |
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Pic 1 shows a small piece of the lauan Pic 2 This is the glue I use, it can also be sprayed with a sipon paint gun. |
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I went for about 5 years without doing the top interior. I had been working on a rebuild for a good friend (more on that later). Anyhow here is the build on the top interior.
Pic 1 I had about 80% of the interior thought out, except for the corner pieces (that's another reason for taking so long:lol::lol:). What I finally did was take some poster board and form a piece in the corner and cover with 4 layers of fiberglass. Pic 2 The other side. (both of these pieces are held in place with the Xmas tree type plastic clips) |
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Showing general shape of interior.
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Pic 1 Sanded fiberglass and started adding filler to smooth out.
Pic 2 More filler. |
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Again a general view. Since I already had the exterior top material on the top, it made it harder to work on this, and not mess up something:dum::dum:
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Pic 1 More filler
Pic 2 Finally got it right. |
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Jump ahead here, loss some of my pics.
Pic 1 This is the center secion of the main piece, slats glued in place and then covered with material. I had cut the leather close to the size I needed, stapled to the edge of panel. Pic 2 Close up. |
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Pic 1 The second panel is put in place, glued (contact cement) and stapled to first panel.
Pic 2 Thin close cell foam is glued to panel, and cut to fit. |
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Before the leather is pulled over the foam, you spray glue to both pieces, then let it tack up good, then work from center toward the outside edges, and press down. I use a bondo spreader for this. Then staple in place
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Here both front panels are done and the corner pieces, covered and installed. The corner pieces are held in with plastic xmas tree door panel clips.
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Pic 1 Close up of side panels with excess material now stapled down.
Pic 2 The other side. |
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Pic 1 I tried to take a pic of the date on this piece. It's from a 1927 Chevrolet roadster top. I ended up covering it in material for the inside of top.
Pic 2 Another view. |
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Pic 1 Here is the back section for the top. Center is covered in material, to the left and right are 2nd panels, smoothed out.
Pic 2 Close up view, they end up being covered the same as the main centerpiece was done. Only difference is the ends were folded back and stapled, then the entire piece is popped in place, using metal door clips. |
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Here is the outcome. Still need to make up the two side pieces.
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Sorry forgot the pic.
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Pic 1 Here the top is back on the truck and you can see what it looks like.
Pic 2 Another view. This isn't the way I wanted it to be, too many pieces on the side to suit me. I wanted it to be alsmost one piece, but I couldn't get it to work out for me. There were so many curves and angles, maybe next time. |
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That's todays post. Tomorrow I will finish up with the latest updates to my truck. Jim
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I have been showing my Auto tech class your build they like it, we voted and decided to load mine on the trailer and haul it to you and let you finish it. Joe |
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I love the work you're doing, it looks great!!! I did noitce you primed and painted over POR15. How well is it holding up? Did you use any special primer? You do good work keep the photos and info coming!!
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About two years ago I decided to update with larger wheels, but I wanted to maintain about the same height of old tires, so I went to a lower profile.
I took off 14X6 in front and replaced with 16X7 with 4" b.s. and 215/60/16 tire. The old 15X7 rears and replaced with 17X8 with a 3-1/2" b.s. and 235/55/17 tire. Here's a couple pics with the new set-up. |
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Well that's the end of my build, I have enjoyed posting this build. I also have a little surprise for you. We all have our favorite cars and trucks, but we like looking at just about everything. I redid a 67 Chevy pickup, long bed step side for a friend. Worked on it in 2005-2008. Truck has been on the road for about 2-1/2 years. I'm going to do a build on the 67-72 pickup forum(projects and builds), have about 800+ pics to post. It's built with the same detail as mine, with some body mods, and a very nice interior. If you want to follow along it will be titled JIMBO'S 67 LONG BED STEP SIDE BUILD. It might be a couple days till I post, checking out the pics. Hope to have you follow along. I appreciate all the feedback on my build and getting to know you guys. Thank you very much Jim. Oh, here's a before and after shot for a little teaser.
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Jim,
Thank You for taking the time and sharing your hard work with us. A very nice truck, |
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X2 Thank you. Panelman55 |
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