My 1971 Road runner

[71Beeper]

Well I removed the offending tab and glued the piece in that area to the trim piece.

I used this stuff....it worked great.

My sail panels came in too.

I ordered them from Classic Industries. Looking at the packaging look where Classic got it from.

I have the sail panels in place to do a fit check along with the trim piece.

Next do the final install along with the rear window trim.

I'm gonna have to use a steamer come spring to get the headliner wrinkles out just above the sail panels.
Next step is to unwrap the rear parcel shelf and set it in place.

This one is from RM reproductions.
Now, I don't know if the piece is made narrower than the shelf itself - I do have gaps on either side.

 

[71Beeper]

I got a chance to spray some black primer followed by the SEM Landau black on the rear side panels.

That's them in primer......
Now with the trim paint.

I do like the finish that the SEM paint gives.
Next it was time to install the arm rest.

Get the ash tray mounted and install in the car.

With the sound deadner in place, the panel had to be pushed down on the deadner to get it in place.

Plus get the wires that run front to back in place behind the panel.

 

[71Beeper]

I don't have the ash tray for the other side - so I ordered one from airgrabber.com website.
I don't need to have brand new ones - besides the cost of $100 each! I'll make due with used ones.
I went ahead and installed the right side rear panel.

Here's how they look together.

Next step - get the rear seat backrest in place.

 

[ct71rr]

Very nice! I’ve heard good things about the SEM paint.

 

[Bee1971]

Looking great

https://www.semproducts.com/product/plastic-adhesion-promoter/39863

 

[71Beeper]

Bee1971 - I looked at the adhesion promoter and it says this:
Plastic Adhesion Promoter increases adhesion of top coat materials to a wide variety of raw plastic.
The panels I'm painting already have paint on them.
I did strip some of the metal trim, but the side panels still had paint on them, so I used a black primer first.

 

[71Beeper]

ct71rr - you are doing great work on yours!
You are going in depth way more than I did on mine.

 

[71Beeper]

I had time to put the back seat backrest in place - it's starting to look like some completion.....

 

[whayden2003]

I had time to put the back seat backrest in place - it's starting to look like some completion.....
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Love the seat material.

 

[71Beeper]

Had some time today to install the upper rear panels.

The SEM went on well.
Here's the panels in place.

It was a little tricky trying to line up the steel clips to fit into their respective holes, but I managed it.
Next step, pick out the 2 best lower door panels and get them cleaned up and ready for black primer.

 

[71Beeper]

Door panels painted......

Arm rests too.

It's been so cold in the past few days that I had to bring the painted pieces in the house to dry.....
It's only paint fumes....

 

[71Beeper]

While the lower door panels are drying, it's time to repair the upper panels.
I can't justify spending over $500 CDN dollars for a set of re-pop door panels.
Part of that would include shipping and duty and all that other BS.
So, lets see how good my repairs can be.
First step is to glue the carboard where the clips have broke thru.
I had to reinforce some of the clip locations with a piece of 1/2" wide by 1 3/4" sheet metal.

 

[Charger72]

Nice job on the panels, I re-skinned a pair of rear panels doing basically the same method.
For the front uppers I was able to find a nice used white pair on eBay that ended up being very reasonable even with shipping.

 

[ct71rr]

Nice job! Your interior pieces came out great!

 

[71Beeper]

Charger72 - I decided to use the panels the car came with even though they were painted gloss black (too shiny).
I figured if this satin black treatment didn't work, I'd use a different set of panels I have in my stash.

ct71rr - Thanks....they are not perfect but will do for now to get the car completed. Maybe in the future I'll save up my pennies to get the repop ones.

 

[71Beeper]

With alot of grunting and groaning and swearing I might add, the door panels are finally on.
I was surprised that the lower panels gave me more grief than the upper panels.
I figured it was gonna be the other way round.

 

[71Beeper]

I did also install the rear seat belts.

The car is starting to have some nice contrasting colors finally....

 

[71Beeper]

Even tho it was in the high 30's F in the garage today, I did manage to get the rear half of the carpet down.
The front seat belt buckles and belts too.
Hopefully once the weather warms u

 

[Grabbergreendream]

Your making me dizzy, lol!
Looks great though!

 

[71Beeper]

Good thing I edited the pics.
Man you got in there right quick.