Well I started working on the car this winter and thought I'd post some "build" pics.

Here's my car in it 's new home taken in November.



I started with the interior.  Here's what the floor looked like when I bought the car. Looks ok from inside but very bad underneath. He didn't cutout the old rusted floor pans so the new pans and patches are sitting over top the old ones. Gonna fix that later on.



Here's the PG shifter hump and console mounting brackets that I added, which were out of my '63 Nova SS.



Console mounted in place.  This is just a mock up of my Lokar floor shifter. I'll make a bracket once the trans is in the car so I can drop it as low as possible without interefering with the tailshaft. I'll make a nice shifter boot too.



Before everyone gets there panties in a knot , these seats are TEMPORARY!
I have the correct era '63 bucket seats and rear bench out of my '63 SS which will be recovered and installed I'm hoping next year.  I got these for $75 so I'm throwing them in for now. Lots of lumbar support to boot and they match my black interior somewhat.



With the headrests removed and the bottom brackets cut off the front bucket height was pretty good.  The top of the seat is at the door line.  I welded new shorter mounting bracket to the buckets and drilled holes for them.

The rear seats were another issue.... so out came the butchers knife, grinder and welder. Here's how much foam I cut off the top of the rear seat.



I had to cut and weld portions of the bottom seat frame to fit nicely also. Only need to clean up the top of the existing seat cover and hog ring it up and she's good for now.



I bought some aftermarket black lap belts with chrome air-craft stlye latches for the front and rear.  I made some floor reinforcing brackets tha I cut out of square tubing and all the holes for the belts and seats have been drilled in the floors.



Here's the stock plastic parking brake handle that was broken and needed replacing.



Instead of getting another stock handle,I felt it needed some cool factor so I found a cheap Hurst T handle on e-bay, cut the head off a bolt, threaded it to the handle, drilled a hole for the roll pin and installed it on the factory parking brake lever. I love the look of the handle and the brushed alum matches my interior colours.



I bought this '62 chevy tissue dispenser so I could eventually hide a CD player in it.



I wanted an old school looking tach but didn't want to spend big bucks on an old sun super tach and resistor so, I bought one of the super tach II's and modified it.  Here's how it looked at first.



Dismantled....



Modified.  It's not perfect but it'll do. I'm thinking of adding a small round sticker in the center of the face or adding a shift needle from another tach I have.



Here's the tissue dispenser centered under the radio delete plate with a hinged door (like Todd's write-up).  It's mouted using 2 existing holes in the bottom of the dash on the front side and I made a rear suport bracket for the back side.

For the tach, I mocked it up in a few places, top of column, lower left side off column, knee knocker postion didn't work cause of the parking brake and tissue dispenser so I chose to mount it on the console like some factory GM's had.  I made a hidden mounting bracket that extends behind the console and under the foreward lip and it is held in place with a bolt that clamps against the back of the console.






-- Edited by 62Beaumont on Sunday 17th of May 2009 09:34:44 AM