The door panels have been the biggest project so far. These were pretty torn up. Its hard to find good used ones and the reproductions have gotten mixed reviews, so I figured I’d see what I could do with these. I cut back the edges around the holes, added some foam, then covered it with paintable silicone.
After getting the silicone as smooth as I could. I put on bedliner for texture. You can see its a little wavy around the front of the armrest.
Sanded down high spots and add more silicone to low spots. I probably did this 4 or 5 times before I was happy with it.
For the final sanding I went to 800, then 1500 to smooth the bedliner texture out. I painted these with SEM Landau black.
I made some pieces for the corners where the screws had pulled through. These will go on the front side of the panel behind the carpet.
Also a few of the clip holes had blown out.
Smoothed out the trim pieces and relocated the emblem holes.
Painted the black stripe with my favorite engine paint.
New “wood” everywhere. I actually purchased some woodgrain material to match the dash in my Standard, but I ended up with a set of extra dash panels, so I could save my originals and experiment with these.
Here’s one of the completed door panels. I had to dye the carpet also. The texture isn’t quite right where I had to make repairs, but I can live with it.
Polished up the small stuff while everything was apart.
Black visors ready to go.
Seven years of bad luck for my car?
The backside looks really nice though.
The dash pad might have some green in it, but its close enough to black that I’m leaving it alone. The block off plate was black, but the trim around the warning lights was green and had to be dyed.
I’m not sure when I’ll get to this. I want to add the switches and map light and use the extra swithces for fog lights and a power antenna. I’ll need to do some research to figure out the switch for the antenna though.
There are a half dozen screws that attach the bottom of the panel, so I’ll have to put holes in the door for those and a couple more for a bracket that attaches to the armrest. Other than that, it looks like everything is where it should be.
Thanks everyone. That steering wheel was just brushed on leather dye. It turned out OK, but its a little too shiny. I am saving the original steering wheel, dash inserts, and door panels so I can go stock again.
I can’t beleive how many parts are color coordinated. Except for my seatbets, which are black, everything was some shade of ivy gold or green. Some more small pieces going black.
Console finished. I’m not sure what is correct, but the plastic pieces are charcoal black, the pad is SEM Landau black and the metal parts are GM engine black.
Back together. I think I need to change the front ashtray to charcoal.
Here’s my project for the weekend if it gets warm enough. I know headliners aren’t very expensive, but I don’t think I could install one and have it look as good as the original. For the vinyl, I’ve been cleaning the pieces once with simple green, twice with dish soap, then wiping down with acetone prior to paint and its seems to be working well.
Where’d you get the burlwood material? Or is this something you made up somehow? If the former, seems to me this could be just what JCC needs to get to have a new run of steering wheel bezel, radio bezel and console insert decals done.
Schnikeys! It is…didn’t even look at that. Pretty sure they have smaller, more affordable samples in-store. 4x8’ would be overkill to get a sample from.
Here we go…much better than $700 clams…tho probably still not “exact”:
The Rocket-tac is mounted. I printed out the write up from The Curb so I could see what needed to be modified, but it bolted right in with no trimming anywhere.
I polished the lenses and trim rings while I had it all apart.
Dyed the original sail panels.
Original package tray. This piece really sucks up the dye. I ran out and finished up with paint. Probably not the smartest approach, but it came out fine.
So for the headliner, did you just mask it off good and then spray it with dye / paint? It looks pretty darn good to me, and I’m sure it was easier to “paint” it than it would be to remove / install a new one.
