Last post by Chuck W -
The current state of things.
Got a foot of snow this past Sunday. Got everything else dug out, but had to put this off for a bit, as I have no place to easily put the snow.
Started working on that a bit after work today. I have to carry the snow to a couple different places to move it, so it takes a bit longer.
I want to have it uncovered so I can start it (and work on the start/warm-up routine a bit while it's cold) and work on a couple of the other small bits. The roads aren't going to be clear enough for a while now, so Natasha (as my wife refers to it (i.e. the Black Widow) is sidelined for a little while again.
Last post by bodyman -
Got the windshield home without issue. I increased my odds by taking my Moms Subaru instead of my old f150, I’m sure the crossed fingers didn’t hurt either.
Last post by Chuck W -
I'm pretty sure that they used whatever color for the receiver side in the Tbirds, as they were originally covered by the plastics. I've run into red or other color receivers on grey interior cars a few times.
I have the right color grey belts for the front retractable ones, and dark grey belts for the back seat, which I expect won’t see much use. These seats are temporary until I get the original red seats recovered, probably very close to how these look now. I have new fox mustang grey plastic covers on order from LMR, going to try to make those work for the belt latch part attached to the front seats. I think these red belts in the grey plastic covers are original to the cougar they came out of. Going to try to spray these red ones with the SEM interior paint I have once I get the new covers figured out.
I’ve got a 4 hour round trip planned tomorrow morning to pick up the windshield. Hopefully I get it home ok, I probably jinxed myself as I already have the local glass company scheduled to put it in Thursday afternoon.
Other than that, just been taking care of some loose ends here and there. Started final sanding on the header panel, I’ll be spraying that and the spoiler and a few smaller pieces when we get out of this deep freeze in a week or so.
Last post by bodyman -
Some console lid repairs. Both spots where the hinge screws on were broken. Roughed it up a little and used some 3M 8115 to remake mount.
The original plan was to use black interior paint on the lid, but I ordered plenty of black vinyl for the shift bezel, so I gave it a go. The first try failed because the upholstery adhesive wouldn’t stick to the original red vinyl. Some 80 grit on the DA and some hand sanding around the edges solved that. Few wrinkles but fairly pleased with the results. Hopefully it holds up.
Compared to the lid, the shift bezel was fairly easy to cover. Other than it sits up just a bit from the vinyl wrapped around the edge it turned out well.
