Fixed the fender...and got them mounted on the rotisserie ends in the position that they will be hung on the car. Now it's time to deep clean the garage and get ready for paint Saturday night into Sunday morning!
When I painted the underside of the trunk lid, it seemed like it was a touch too green. I didn't pursue the issue until I could get it into some good light. Well, it was. So some adjustments were made at the supply store (thank god they were open yesterday) and we have what I can safely say is as close as I could get to the original color. There was some original paint left on the top inside of the doors, but it wasn't true to the color because it was somewhat thin. So, here we are. I shot the base late yesterday, and got up early this morning and hosed a bunch of clear on it. It's nice and sunny today, so that made for some good photo opportunities.
Since I didn’t do enough this weekend, I started to work on the front wheel houses. I’ll have these blasted and then do a little repair work on them...then hose some black paint their general direction. I also ripped all of the AC parts off the firewall and completely disassembled the dash off the parts car. It’s time to start detailing parts.
Boy impressive doesn't even start to express this thread. Awesome awesome work. You are so the man. Thanks for posting all that you do. Again. I am beyond impressed.
I did some cleanup on pedal assemblies and a few other trinkets in that general area. Been disassembling the parts car and got the entire dash and inner firewall stripped of parts to use on this car. Tomorrow, I start working on AC system cleanup.
Inner and outer AC boxes, and all associated doodads are cleaned up and installed. Still need to buy some flex duct to connect the boxes. The firewall insulation was a pain in the arse to get the pins through the firewall. Seemed like that took more time than anything else. All pedal assemblies are installed. I started to get some wiring in. Threaded the power window harnesses through the doors and roughly hung the dash harness. Mounted the fuse block and left everything else hanging for now...until I can get the instrument cluster back from my spray chrome guy.
I started installing door guts yesterday. I forget how much crap is bolted to these doors, until I have to remove ,clean, paint, grease, from the old door to the new door. The original glass to the car was really worn and scratched up. I ended up ordering a set of side glass from Auto City Classic. I had already ordered a windshield from Summit (Pilkington date coded). The side glass will be here in a couple weeks. Not sure on the windshield. Here's a really exciting picture of what appears to be no progress, but it represents about 6 hours of fiddling with parts and bolts. Thank god for Todd's fastener kit!
Several deliveries today...side glass came, and in-line tube order for master/booster came as well. Bruno also sent me a red heater control cable, and it came today too.
I assembled all of the hardware onto the new glass today. I got a hardware kit from Todd, which includes a good portion of new parts, but some I had to reuse from the old glass. I'm really glad we got new glass for this car. The old stuff was so scratched up and worn out...would've been a bummer to install it on such a nice car.
Love seeing the progress on this car Adam. I had a shop locally spray a deck lid with some Tealmist a few years ago. It too looked too green, at least under some lighting conditions. Tealmist is one of the colors which seems to shift somewhat depending on sun angle. From your photos, it looks like the color I remember from when the cars were new. Nice job! This is under full spectrum fluorescent lighting with camera flash.
The underside was definitely greener than the rest of the car, so I reshot it today with the grille trim piece. I also cleaned up some doodads that were hanging around in a box that came with the car.
