Broke my 7UP Pop Machine today....

[dadsbee]

Front arm rests and backing plates.

Alcohol to clean up the chrome and scubbing bubbles for the vinyl arm rests.

Passenger side installed, along with crank handle and door release handle.

Drivers side done.

My trade secret for cleaning grained panels and vinyl tops. Scubbing bubbles and a plastic upholstrey cleaner can brush.

Quick spray and wipe with detailer wax.

Gluing the insulation onto the kick panels. It just makes life easier...

Passenger side kick panel installed after running the new antenna cable up to the radio. Note the near mint original heater box and part # stamp. Not reconditioned... original !

Drivers side in. Guess I need to clean that grease pencil off the hinge mount area.

OE sill plates are pretty good, but she deserves new ones

 

[dadsbee]

Like everything else reproduction, never an install "as bought" item.

A bit of trimming to a more correct shape.

Passenger sill plate installed.

Drivers side installed

Guess it's time for some dish soap and water to remove Jake's wax job and to float some decals into place.

 

[1 Wild R/T]

How's the metal thickness of the repo sill plates compared to OE?

 

[dadsbee]

How's the metal thickness of the repo sill plates compared to OE?

These are the good ones, identical. Only issue with them is the over size that needs trimming and the over the windlace profile isn't quite right but you can make it work with some persuasion !

 

[dadsbee]

Two small birds...

One goes 3/8" from trunk edge.. so mark and cut.

Area de-waxed and cleaned with alcohol. Sprayed with soapy water and squeegied into place.

The other on the passenger door interior.

30 year old NOS wing upright decals from my good friend Jerry Hall in Alabama

NOS vs reproduction. Not keene on Mike Mancini's choice of soft clear vinyl as the carrier backing on the repro.

Reproductions. I also have two sets of NOS Plymouth decals (one I had and another courtesy of Moparsaver!) and a set of 34 year old reproduction nose decals to bail me out if need be

Original door and VIN decal.

New VIN decal.

Placement as close as I can duplicate.

 

[dadsbee]

She has an identity again.

Tire pressure decal.

Took almost 3 hours for the glue to set up before I could peel the carrier paper.

Roadrunner Superbird...

Nose jack instructions in. Still haven't been able to obtain a bumper jack decal.

 

[Richard Cranium]

Good work ................ except .............

You've got to get the yellow paint off those two 1/4" nuts (the ones with the captive washer).

 

[dadsbee]

Good work ................ except .............

You've got to get the yellow paint off those two 1/4" nuts (the ones with the captive washer).

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Nope... not a hope in hell I'm touching those ever again. 46 hours alone to make that POS AMD door work and get the top of the vent frame to actually touch the roof rail seal.

 

[eldubb440]

Nope... not a hope in hell I'm touching those ever again. 46 hours alone to make that POS AMD door work and get the top of the vent frame to actually touch the roof rail seal.

one at a time, chief......... do I need to come up there?

 

[Richard Cranium]

Nope... not a hope in hell I'm touching those ever again. 46 hours alone to make that POS AMD door work and get the top of the vent frame to actually touch the roof rail seal.

 

[dadsbee]

OKAY... OKAY... I have some brand new bare ones here. I'll dip 4 in Boeshield tonight! FFS, the concurs judges and their attitudes!

BUT, if the paint chips off the door... I'm coming after you!

 

[eldubb440]

OKAY... OKAY... I have some brand new bare ones here. I'll dip 4 in Boeshield tonight! FFS, the concurs judges and their attitudes!

BUT, if the paint chips off the door... I'm coming after you!

if the paint chips off the door, send it back to the body shop for another month

sorry Wayne, I'm a lazy pos today....... you look like the only one getting things done

 

[dadsbee]

LOL... did the brakes on my truck this morning and then adjusted the shifter and tracked down oil leaks on the Wife's '67 Formula S this afternoon. Into the beer now...

 

[Richard Cranium]

OKAY... OKAY... I have some brand new bare ones here. I'll dip 4 in Boeshield tonight! FFS, the concurs judges and their attitudes!

BUT, if the paint chips off the door... I'm coming after you!

Looks like the door hinge bolts need some touching up anyway, but I won't tell.

 

[dadsbee]

LOL.. I already did that. I have a really cool Yellow paint pen!

 

[eldubb440]

I didn't stay a lazy pos for long...... posting from the shop....... just had to clarify, I have a reputation to uphold, dammit

 

[1 Wild R/T]

I didn't stay a lazy pos for long...... posting from the shop....... just had to clarify, I have a reputation to uphold, dammit

By the time you finally got to the shop I'd already been to the shop, I'd accomplished what I needed to get done & I'd gone back home... Where I'm sitting in my chair like a lazy POS...

 

[dadsbee]

Got my Bird out to meet Dawn this morning. What a wax stripper she is. Wax was on... wax is off. Still tempting to leave the decals off..

 

[MarPar]

Got my Bird out to meet Dawn this morning. What a wax stripper she is. Wax was on... wax is off. Still tempting to leave the decals off..
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Could always put em on at a later date if you want...

 

[dadsbee]

Could always put em on at a later date if you want...

Well..