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Nice carpet set up. He did a great job getting around all the extra stuff on the floor and firewall!

Nice look I really like the wood work incorporated into the flooring .

Originally Posted by bluestang67

Nice look I really like the wood work incorporated into the flooring .

Thanks for the nice comments. The walnut approach came from a friend looking at the car one evening, and me worrying about how to do thresholds in metal, seeing that they really needed to roll over the curved edge. He said, "Will you incorporate any wood into the interior?", and that planted the seed. I'm having to rework the front ends a bit - door panels are binding with them about the first inch...

Realy like the wood not many guys use it???? I had red oak running boards on my 38 chevy and my 51 Chevy P/U.

DANG !!!!!!!!...nice score Roger...wooow !!!!!

It's looking better and better every day.

Mike

Originally Posted by rspears

Thanks, Steve. I put off posting the details, but then thought "...if I'm trying to figure this stuff out......", so I posted. I'm sure it's old hat to many of the guys & gals here.

Posting gives us study guides , I even sit and look at mine and think of where its going and see what I did and the look .

The wood with black looks classy Roger.....your doing a fanatastic job...

Looks Great!!!

Man Roger you are one talented guy!
Great work and good ideas as well.
Very interesting thread on your build too.

Thanks guys, for all of the nice comments. I'm reminded that doing things our own way is what makes this such a great hobby, and what makes our cars unique and personal
I thought I'd post a few more shots of the steps I went through on the interior, not that I did it right, but just that I muddled through learning as I went.
There are a bunch of arm rest products out there, but if you have a shape in mind they can be formed from foam and fiberglassed, or for me formed from a chunk of scrap 2x4 on the band saw, router table and belt sander to get the conture you want.Armrest 002.jpgArmrest 001.jpg I hit the top with some Weldwood cement, glued a little 1/4" dense foam to the top for padding, contured the edge a bit on the belt sander and then covered them with vinyl. My interior guy told me later that he uses steam to warm the material, and gets everything smooth and tight that way, but he told me that after I had done mine

I finally decided that my door panels would have 1/4" foam on top, above the walnut accent strip/door pull; 1/8" foam in the middle, and no foam in an arc at the bottom because of clearance to the floor pan area in the very front. I installed the accent strip and marked the top edge, took it off and masked the area below to keep glue away. I cut a piece of 1/4" foam a little oversize, gently roughed the back side with 100 grit sandpaper to break the skin and improve the glue bond, and sprayed both the door panel and foam with a good coating of glue. I used Weldwood glue and an old siphon spray gun to apply it. It doesn't plug up much at all, and if it does it will be a skin of glue over the outside of the orifice, or at worst a soft plug just inside the orifice that can be blown clear with a nozzle and air through the siphon tube easily.Headliner & Panels 002.jpg Weldwood.jpg Now the trick is to not get impatient - let the glue dry until it is no longer tacky at all, up to 1/2 hour or more depending on the weather, and it will be much more forgiving. Run a razor blade on your tape line, pull the tape, place the foam, installed the accent strip to use as a cut line, and trimmed the foam to the line using a very sharp utility blade. Next it's mask off the upper foam, make a cardboard pattern for the lower section which gets no foam, and mask off that section, leaving the center open - same drill, using 1/8" foam. Once all foam is in place just gently sand the surface to break the skin on the foam, shoot it and your vinyl with glue and let them dry thoroughly before attaching the vinyl to the foam. I covered most of the panel with craft paper, leaving only a couple of inches of glue exposed, aligned my vinyl and started laying it in place, smoothing any wrinkles and defining edges as I pulled paper and slowly went down the panel. Here's the finished panel - next time I do them I'll figure out how to cover the spring clips so the heads don't show so much but they'll do for now... I'll show some shots of the steps in another post using the headliner to show the process, and how I aligned floating inserts.Door Panel 001.jpg

Roger - I really am impressed with your upholstery job. I almost makes me want to pull mine apart and do it over - myself. It's the only part of the car I farmed out except the chassis powder coat. I do know that my carpet will soon be redone.

Again, great work

Looks great Roger. Do you have any sohots of the panel with just the foam on it?

Here's a few shots of the headliner process, to show some of the steps. My headliner panel is a contoured piece that follows the shape of the top, front valance and has a lip at the back to join a wrap panel from door to door. I needed 1/4" foam on the sides, back and front to help fill gaps between panels, but I did not want to give up any headroom so I finally settled on a simple shaped insert that would have no foam above the seats. The center is tapered a bit from the radio console, getting a bit wider in back, and leaves about 4" at he back and sides for the foam. This meant that I was going to have to cut the foam in a rectangular shape, but also that it had to be aligned for symetry both side to side and front to back. I struggled with this for a bit, and finally cut a pattern from luan plywood of that shaped insert. After sanding the headliner to give it some tooth for glue and using my paper pattern I taped off the inserts to keep them free of glue, so that the foam would not stick in that area. Then using the luan pattern I aligned it on one side and drilled three 3/32" holes in a line, so that three common nails could be used for pattern alignment after the foam was in place. I inverted the pattern for the other side, aligned it carefully and used the holes already drilled to drill the headliner panel. Finally time for glue, sand the foam gently, spray both and let them dry thoroughly, and place the foam, smoothing from the center out. Here's a few shots:
Glue on, masking removed, ready for foam:Headliner & Panels 001.jpg
Foam on, nails in place from the bottom:Headliner & Panels 004.jpg
Luan Pattern in place, ready to cut:Headliner & Panels 005.jpg
Finished Headliner Panel, vinyl on, dome light in place:Headliner & Panels 006.jpg
Test Fit with Radio:Headliner & Panels 008.jpg

Originally Posted by stovens

Looks great Roger. Do you have any sohots of the panel with just the foam on it?

Steve,
No, I did not do well with pictures during that process - I was too caught up in the glue/foam process, and wondering how much of a mess I was going to have if I got the foam stuck down in the wrong places I did get a few of the headliner, but as I look back not as many as I should have... One book that I got that really helped me a lot was Custom Auto Ineriors by Don Taylor and Ron "The Stitcher" Mangus. It doesn't give all of the secrets, but it opened my eyes on many of the processes and tips that make things easier to understand.