Lately, it’s almost like taking a miniature vacation when I can re-purpose a few hours to work on the car and yesterday was one of those days! I was able to get the passenger door trim installed and the latch adjusted.
I still have to play around with the arm rest mounting, but first
need to rethink a way to solve a couple of appearance problems.
At least the interior is beginning to look a little less barren.
I’ve already fit checked the rear seat and side panels, so once I get them in
place I’ll send the door and window handles out to the plating shop.
The new shop air conditioner makes summers more enjoyable in
out mid-nineties August temps, so maybe after my wife’s barbecue is history I can
re-appropriate a few more household hours to install the rear seats.
Then it will be back to checking for wiring errors! I’ve been putting
that off far too long. Doing it without a helper is going to take a long time.
This is the image sent by "unknown" in the comment below. Been there done that, and it works. I remember a neighbor kid back in the mid-50s who bought a $50 Henry J to drive to high school. The interior was trash, so he made a door panel out of quarter-inch fir plywood. He used a wire brush to bring out the grain and give it texture, then stained and varnished it. It actually looked pretty nice, and on a Henry J, there was no way anyone would criticize the results!
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