slow going

Spent pretty much a full day in the garage today. Installed outer door handles in both doors. Installed the mirror bracket on the driver's door, and the antenna on the rear fender. Started putting the nuts on the top fender trim and decided it needs to come off to open up a hole slightly so it's not so forced.

Most of the time today was in the dash area. Pulled the column and reinstalled with all the gaskets in place. Put the column/dash support in place. Put the dash in place, but still need to bolt down. Glued the dash pad and put the defroster vents in place. Put more wiring from the engine harness through the firewall. So much more to do.

Reassembly Day One

The car came home yesterday, and I started a couple things last night, but not much. I got the left hand rear bumper brackets in place, but realized the right side would have been a whole lot easier before we bolted the body last week. Had to unbolt some of the right side body bolts and lift the body to get the right side brackets in place.


Along with putting on the bumper brackets, we cleaned the taillights and I mounted them, and we cleaned the chrome around the licence plate, and I installed the back bracket, license plate and the chrome. I also put the trunk lock in place.

The interior took the bulk of the time today, mostly in putting in seven sheets of dynamat and taping all the seams with aluminum tape. I started running the engine harness into the interior - I'll put the PCM on the tranny tunnel. Soon I'll want to get the instrument cluster in place so I can start the remaining wiring and get key gauges hooked up so I can fire the engine.

Home at last

Took a late lunch today and had a tow truck meet me at the shop to get the car home. Tow truck driver rolled her right off the truck and on to the lift. All good.

Ready to come home

Got word today the car is essentially ready to come home. Ron will do one final pass with a glazing compound, and she'll be as good as done. There's also a few small parts that still need paint he'll work on in the next two days.

Ron and Jason hanging the deck lid.

All new weatherstriping on the deck lid - I won't recognize the car without the rattle of fiberglass on fiberglass.

Trunk lid now hung. It also has fresh weatherstripping.

A shot of the back of the car with the trunk lid and deck lid on the car.

And from the front with the hood in place.