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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.
Pic 2 Another interior shot. |
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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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