The windlacing around the rear doors is
easy. The windlacing at the front of the front door took hours to
install. The trough where the plastic rod slides had been mangled and
reshaped. There was extra material at the bottom that just would not
feed. I got the privilege of spending several hours working on both
front doors. Needless to say, the photographer did not get any good
shots of this.
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A layer of ballistic mat was put down over the spray in sound
proofing for additional deadening in the passenger compartment.
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The carpet was installed and trimmed to
fit all the odd shapes of the wagon interior floor. The new audio system
subwoofer was installed under the rear seat.
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The vinyl was installed on the tailgate, along with the painted trim and the stainless cover plate from Madmooks.
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The driver footwell looks sharp. Kurt decided to leave the old pedal pads to have at least something original.
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The headliner was installed, one bow at a time. We had to cut
holes again for the two dome lights. That is never fun because you never
know if you've got the exact correct spot or not. More often, it's not.
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The headliner before we started tucking the extra material and using a hair dryer to get a tight fit.
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The slider mechanism for the front seat was cleaned up and repainted. It looks almost new.
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What we didn't know was that several springs
were broken and would have to be fixed. Fortunatly we had a donor seat
that we had kept from that old junk wagon and it's springs volunteered
to be the replacements.
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The bottom of the front seat was next. This is the original
seat. We knew that it would need some help with the padding.
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A friend who had not done upholstery work before came over to watch and lend a hand.
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The completed front seat bottom, with an extra layer of batting for comfort.
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The back of the front seat had other
problems. The burlap that holds the two halves together was giving out
and would need to be fixed.
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Patches were made from blue suede again, same as for Betsy. The leather will hold up much longer than the burlap.
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The batting on the old seat was very bad, so we replaced the
entire mess with foam and another layer of batting. The Ciadella site
had a video on how to do the foam that was very helpful. We prefer the
comfort of the batting and couldn't find the exact thicknesses
recommended, so the combination worked well.
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The reupholstered back of the front seat. The side shells will cover the gap where the springs are still showing.
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Once the front seat was in, Kurt decided to put the door panels on.
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The door panel reinstalled, with the cleaned up original door handles.
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The passenger front door panel fully installed. The original door handles were used throughout the interior
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Next problem was the rear wheelwell panels. The dividing lines
between the vinyl did not line up. Rather than wait on replacements,
Kurt carefully unstitched, realigned, and resewed the panels with some
of the extra turquiose vinyl that Ciadella sent along.
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The corrected wheelwell panel, complete
with the stainless trim. We are not sure if that is a stock piece or not
as no one seems to offer it, but since we had a pair in good condition
and Kurt liked the look, he kept them.
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The fully installed headliner with the
custom sun visors. The turquoise edging makes the visors stand out and
breaks up that large white headliner.
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We're nearing the deadline so friends kept stopping by to help.
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The rear linoleum laid in place. We can't
use this until we can afford the stainless pieces that hold it down, but
hopefully that won't be much longer. For now, the carpet will be there.
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Installing the back seat is a two person job, one on the outside for the bolts inside the fender and one in the car.
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The help from the outside position decided to take a break and check out the fit of the rear seat.
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