70 RR Fix-up

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I made the bracket for the vent cable, and the cable stop as it was MIA when I got the box. It's not like the original, but it works good.

 

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Finished heater box!

 

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Refinished the driver's side vent box with new seal, stripped and repainted the cable bracket and added the new foam seal up top.

 

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Here's the steering column resto part...installed new upper and lower bearings, ignition ant turn signal switches, coupling joint.

 

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Here's the stripped upper column parts that I had dipped, rather than trying to sand all that aluminum, and risk scratching the surface, and keeping the shavings out of the fine threads.

 

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Here's the refinished parts....all ready for re-assembly.

 

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Before and after of the gear selector needle.

 

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The finished product -

 

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Finally time to install something on this heap! Vent box on driver's side, and heater box are ready and fully operational!!

 

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Here's the instruments after they've been gone through, and of course, I had to add in the tic-toc-tach!

 

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The dash harness was a rat's nest, and I'm surprised everything worked before, and more importantly, that the car didn't have a fire with all the BS work done to it.

FYI the thich red wire was bypassed on the coupler, and soldered directly into the harness. Also, notice the red plastic connectors all over this mess!

 

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New dash harness is installed and ready for some voltage!

 

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Dash frame installed with the instruments in there, wiring harness and new dash pad, too. I installed most of the parts on the frame out of the car and installed it as one assembly that way, rather than trying to do it all inside the car.

 

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Front stainless windshield trim professionally polished to a chrome-like finish, and dings removed along with the glass/trim installed.

 

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Here's the finished dash. I liked the way it turned out!

 

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Here's the lower dash trim pieces, before and after.

 

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Had to do some repairs to the lower pieces as the tabs that held in the clips for the center section, under the column, were broken off. So what I did was added a piece of plastic in there behind it that I rivted in, and drilled for the holes for the clips. Hope it's not too half-assed!

 

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Time to get rid of the BS lime paint on the door frames and the rear door panels! Car was sent to a friend of a friend's for the paint work.

 

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Here's what the interior looks like all done...note that I still need to address the steering wheel as that's a 69 earlier part. Something to do in 2012!

 

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Here's the wheels with lots of imperfections and the masking job I did by hand, and painted.