Yeah I def like the plane Jane look, sometimes the simple look is perfect!

Haha will do roger.....

I'm slowly running out of parts to put on it seems.

But there's always more to do it seems lol

One thing that kind of bothers me is the window trim, both front and rear have some good dings and dents.  But they are 40 some years old now.  But for right now it's a driver, they should do just fine  

 

-- Edited by bowtieboy on Sunday 8th of December 2013 10:22:26 PM

Got the headliner in, its to completely done yet, but its close.  Took a bit to figure out the headliner bow configuration and to get everything to fit right.  The holes were all oblonged for the rods, so had to take a bfh/punch to the mounting holes.  That tightened everything right up.  Stretched the front/back of the liner/installed front window trim/stretched the sides today.  Used some 3m trim adhesive, seems to work pretty good.

 

Still have some wrinkles in it from it being folded in its original packaging, but it looks pretty good to me :thumb:

 

with the front/back stretched:

 

 

sides stretched:

 

 

 

Still have to stretch around where the sail panels go and install them as well.  Which that should take care of some wrinkles it still has.

Got the car towed home the other day, shop space was needed in the paintbooth. So it got kicked outside for a week. We got it home and a bunch of things done on it. Headliner mostly finished/visors-mirror put on, Wired reverse lights/tidied up some underhood wiring as well. got the rubber floor insulation laid out. Front half of the carpet is fitted/shifter and boot put back on.

A few pics:

 

 

 

-- Edited by bowtieboy on Tuesday 25th of February 2014 09:28:58 PM

Looks great! Nice job so far

Lookin' good. It has a certain toughness to it. Great work!

This weekends progress:

Got a set of seatbelts from Rabbit64cs, cleaned em all up. Picked up the backseat, got it in as well as the seatbelts.

Cleaned the trunk out, gave it a good coat of tremclad. Pumped the back part of the quarters full of my wd40/motor oil mix.

Front seat is done, just have to pick it up. Looks real good, can't wait to bolt
Er in.

Picked up MSD rev limiter for it, got it installed. Best place I found was on the inner fender on the drivers side.

My dad and I started straightening some more wiring
Out. Having some issues now, such as fuel gauge no worky and the dash lights come on with the key and go out when the lights are turned on. :doah:

Upon some more messing around, appears the light switch is whats messing with things. Ill have to pick one up i guess.

It's going back to the shop to have a couple spots wet sanded and buffed that were not finished.

 

Got word earlier this week that the Slowmont is accepted at the draggins, should be a good time.

-- Edited by bowtieboy on Friday 28th of March 2014 01:16:40 AM

""Having some issues now, such as fuel gauge no worky and the dash lights come on with the key and go out when the lights are turned on. :doah:""

Nice progress.

With regards to the dash lights, I would think a bad ground, as it is pretty similar issue I had with a car that I had the dash out and then but it back together and forgot the ground strap. If the tank gauge is pegged I would look at grounding the fuel tank with a dedicated wire to the frame or body.

Had a look at it again this week, appears as the light switch might be causing my issues. Fiddled with it a bit and it randomly works fine/goes wonky like it has.

Yeah its likely a ground issue somewhere.

-- Edited by bowtieboy on Friday 28th of March 2014 03:59:45 PM

Canadian Poncho wrote:

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 Speaking of oil undercoating, a friend of mine swears by chainsaw oil.

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          Nothing nicer, than a car inside a car show, dripping oil all over the stadium floor  lol  

 

 

 

Got the front seat back, got it/seatbelts/fisher plates in.

The new seat foamies I got were quite a bit thicker than the 40 yr old foams.   Seems to sit a guy higher up/ahead than you should be, but Im guessing over time it should settle out a bit.

 

-- Edited by bowtieboy on Friday 4th of April 2014 11:35:30 PM

How much would it cost to buy that front licence plate?