Installing seats and door jam covers
After the paint dried, the door jam floor covers were installed and the front seats were bolted down with the 4 bolts.
Cleaning rust of interior parts: seats, headliner rods, ashtray, door jam pieces, etc
Now it’s time to start putting the interior back together. A lot of the parts had surface rust so I wire wheel brushed the backseat frame, the headliner rods, door jam pieces, ashtray, trunk gas [...]
Current status
The project is slowly coming along. This just shows the current status of it being pieced back together.
Current mileage: 66,455 and documented new parts with low mileage
This post is just for documenting purposes showing the current mileage of 66,455. This is the original car mileage on the engine. However the below components are new or redone which marks them having somewhere [...]
Replacing windshield: upgraded with built in antenna
The windshield had a crack in it from when I installed the original back in the car over 15 years ago so it needed to be replaced. The most affordable place including shipping is autocityclassic.com [...]
Cutting carpet holes for seats
Here I used a gasket hole punch set to hammer out holes through the carpet for the seats to bolt through it . It was a little hassle to find the holes. To make it [...]
Interior carpet installation
I ordered a replacement carpet and the sound dampening material from RockAuto for a decent price. This was installed today. Below shows the sound dampening material laid down according to the printout sheet. Then the [...]
Rear window molding: Cleaning and install
The rear windows molding pieces were cleaned up with lacquer thinner and fine steel wool. Then I placed the rear window molding clips into the little groove around the studs . These hold the window [...]
Rebuilding front end: Grill and bumper
It took some time cleaning all the grim off the old parts before installing them on the front end. There was some primer overspray that I had to clean up with lacquer thinner also While [...]
Installing window molding chrome and gas tank cap
For today’s task, I cleaned up the window molding chrome pieces with lacquer thinner and fine steel wool. That shined it up and helped to remove the grim quickly. Then I simply pushed it over [...]