The weather finally cooperated and we got some things done this weekend.
First thing was with the interior mostly painted up and ready, some of the details are still getting worked out. The ashtray was well used in this car, and very rusted, so we sandblasted it and hit it with some silver paint to make it look nice again.
The other thing is fairly minor but kind of neat. The plastic moisture barriers for the doors are long gone, but I didn't really care to spring for another 45 bucks for the American muscle ones. I had plastic sheeting left over from the booth construction,
and decided to make my own.
We mocked up the plastic in the door to trim it to size.
I used butyl tape to adhere it to the door panel so that I can remove and reinstall it without destroying it each time.
And the finished product (less some trimming for the door handles, etc.
I will trace the tape line with a black sharpie on the plastic to guide reinstallation down the road.
Lastly, we finally got the wheels painted.
Black base coat went down well.
Then we put four coats of clear with a mixture of black base.
After we pulled the tape off there is some finishing work to do on the edges of the black. We couldn't make a perfect circle with the tape, and were worried that the edge would look imperfect. Hopefully a sanding block held at an angle will smooth it out and make it okay.
So, got a wedding to go to next week, but hopefully we can get the wheels all finished up the following week so I can get some tires on them. Once those are on, we will swap to five lug and I hope this is the last picture I post with this thing wearing turbines.