Here is some more progress on the GTX! Our car still had original factory applied paint on the interior of the car as well as the door jambs! Plenty of stuff to learn as not that many cars are left like this!
pass side inner door frame and door jambs repainted!
latch reinstalled and cleaned up
driver side inner door, inner door frame color painted first, then masked off and exterior color applied.
driver side prior to disassembly of all the small stuff. notice the lower left corner of the door where they must have had masking still on the corner of the door. interior color showing where exterior color should be!
again, notice the masking pattern!
underside of the driver side door. notice the lack of paint that was applied at the factory!
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More pics of the restoration....
another pic of the underside of the driver side door and lack of exterior paint!
excellent condition of original door (as well as the rest of the car! original sheet metal is nice!)
passenger door almost completely put back together.
door jamb and striker on pass. side door. (Dave did I get the indexing right on the screws?) :smilielol:
driver side door jamb prior to disassembly, original factory tire pressure decal!
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I had been debating on whether or not to replace the trunk weather stripping. Its the factory installed original but as you can see, it is starting to dry out and show its age. If anyone has any leads on an NOS one or an mint used one, please contact me! I'd hate to have the trunk seal be the only non-original weather stripping on this car.
original trunk seal showing its age!
more of the driver side door hardware.
factory pass side door gasket, looks and feels like it just got installed back as it did in 1968!
measuring of where original tire pres. decal was for replacement later.
piece of cardboard wedged or installed between the upper door hinge and the cowl :clueless:
more measuring of where the original decals were!
removed the splash shield which was coated in factory undercoating in which we had to scrape it away to get the bolt heads exposed enough to remove them. notice the red oxide primer! Also, we found a piece of bail wire hanging from the mounting bracket hole on the cowl where the bolt "should" (key word!) have been. Apparently, our car had a factory mess up as there was no bolt ever installed nor any shims. Would anyone know what this bolt size was off the top of their head? Worse comes to worse, I can always pull out the one on the pass. side.
notice the 1" wide tape where they masked off the black lower body paint prior to applying the T3 Honey Bronze color. located under the door sill plate.
seems the metal covers for the wiring were installed after paint for some reason :clueless:
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More work completed...... Driver side interior color painted and T3 Honey Bronze door jamb color now matches the rest of the exterior. Sad to cover up the original factory applied paint but it just didn't look right since the exterior color was a shade lighter than the factory applied color.
interior color was applied first at the factory.....
T3 being applied to the jambs.....
some of the masking removed.....
masking all removed, awaiting it to dry a few days before reinstalling the hardware and weather stripping.
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Dad got the door panels installed. Man, they look great! I'm really psyched to get the rest of it done now! Anyway, here are some more pics of the progress.
(Dad wanted to leave the protective film over the mylar to prevent any accidental scratching. This film will be removed once the car is finished!)
pass side door all back together!
freshening up the underside of the trunk lid. paint is still the factory applied paint as well as the factory applied jacking instruction decal! Also notice the edge closed to the camera which would be the rear most part of the trunk lid. Notice the lack of paint as the trunk was in the up position when it was painted causing a lack of paint to get to this rear most part. Also a lack of paint in the void where there was access holes for pot metal trunk finish panel and plymouth name. You can see where some surface rust started and the factory dark gray dip primer was where the exterior color did not get painted.
lots of factory runs! Also notice the bare mental area behind where the trunk latch was. Supposedly they bolted a prop rod / plate to this location to keep the trunk up while painting.
factory installed jacking decal! (seen better days!)
Almost a perfect outline of the trunk latch which had zero paint on it!
Factory typo on the trunk weather strip rail! Should read 9G, not G9!
All cleaned up from having some rust starting under the factory applied paint in the rain gutters!
Interior pieces which are down in Dad's basement waiting to be installed!
Restored factory console. Original molded colored plastic. Original chrome. Just reapplied the wood grain and repainted the black paint.
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Just another update on the progress of the car. I was able to get the underside of the trunk painted as well as the rain gutters and jambs for the trunk repainted on Wednesday. Trunk lid was reinstalled on Thursday as well as putting the trunk light and interior panels and seat back in.
Notice the dark gray primer on the front side of the trunk and inside the void on the trunk where the access is for the finish panel speed nuts.
you can see the freshly painted area on the trunk jamb with the older paint (still dirty with a slight film of dust/dirt) but once it was all cleaned up and quick detailed, the paint matched perfectly!
trunk lid installed and aligned.
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interior going back in. rear cross piece that goes behind the seat and ties the rear convertible door panels together.
rear panels and rear seat back in.
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since I have some other stuff that needs to be plated, I decided to pull off the carb and pull it apart to get the linkage replated as well. Might as well do everything since the place I am dealing with has a minimum price. Anyway, here is the carb before and after. This carb appears to have been a replaced at one time, possibly a warranty carb as it is dated Apr. of 69 as the car has a SPO date of 10/68. I'm actually glad to be pulling this off and rebuilding it as whoever did painting at one point got redish orange paint all over the lower part of the carb!:angry1:
Check out the garf that is inside the carb. This car ran absolutely great before I pulled the carb. We added Star Tron Fuel system treatment to every tankful and we still had this inside the carb. I am pretty sure that this was there prior to us getting the car as we replaced the tank and blew out all of the lines and installed the correct vapor separator too. Hopefully this will make the car run even better once it is all clean. At least we wouldn't have to worry about having any issues after this!
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With everything else going on, and unsuccessful attempts at trying to find an original trunk weather stripping for the car. I decided to try something unprecedented before. Dad removed the original trunk weather stripping off of the car and while it didn't have the original molded part number on it, he found weather stripping that had the same profile as the original. It has bothered me that all of the weather stripping on the car would have been all original with the exception of this one so I decided to carefully remove the rubberized "skin" off of the foam core for the trunk seal. This allowed me to retain the part that had the molded part number and DCPC logo and other markings on it. The next step will be to adhere the rubber "skin" to new "core". I'll update as that happens also. For now, here is what I had started with. FYI - it took me over 2 days! just to remove the foam core on the old one.
