My charger restoration dream car

[showard]

I set passenger door window and vent window today. I did attach the vent window support bracket with the mounting screws and blue locktight. I did find a problem with the screws in place of the spot welds. After getting the window set i could not get the window to roll down all of the way. I found out that the screw heads were holding and catching on the bottom of the plastic slide in the window channel. I cut a groove in the plastic slide far enough to let the window go far enough down. Spot welds might have been the preferred method but I think that everything is OK and it is all working well now.

I could have worked some more on my car but my brother and I also enjoy helping my dad restore a Citabria airplane. This was an airplane that had a flip over landing and was totaled. I have been enjoying learning about airplane restoration also.
We worked on painting the wings after rebuilding them and recovering them.

 

[daytona kid]

Very Cool! I've always liked the citabria-airbatic. I used to work on planes myself. Are you gonna fly it when done?

 

[showard]

Very Cool! I've always liked the citabria-airbatic. I used to work on planes myself. Are you gonna fly it when done?

Yes, I am excited to fly it when it is done. I remember when I was a kid I use to complain to my dad and ask "can't we just drive somewhere like most people do instead of flying?". Of course now I can't get enough of flying.

 

[moparnation74]

Howard

Good the see you back at it....Coming along nicely!

 

[daytona kid]

Yes, I am excited to fly it when it is done. I remember when I was a kid I use to complain to my dad and ask "can't we just drive somewhere like most people do instead of flying?". Of course now I can't get enough of flying.

I flew a plane before I drove a car. I was 13 and got a free lesson for career day at school. Hope you post more pics of the plane as it goes together.

 

[slimt]

I set passenger door window and vent window today. I did attach the vent window support bracket with the mounting screws and blue locktight. I did find a problem with the screws in place of the spot welds. After getting the window set i could not get the window to roll down all of the way. I found out that the screw heads were holding and catching on the bottom of the plastic slide in the window channel. I cut a groove in the plastic slide far enough to let the window go far enough down. Spot welds might have been the preferred method but I think that everything is OK and it is all working well now.
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I could have worked some more on my car but my brother and I also enjoy helping my dad restore a Citabria airplane. This was an airplane that had a flip over landing and was totaled. I have been enjoying learning about airplane restoration also.
We worked on painting the wings after rebuilding them and recovering them.
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Cool.. you using Randolph dope nitrate with aluminum paste as a UV barrier and smooth out the tapes and Butrate for colors?

 

[showard]

I flew a plane before I drove a car. I was 13 and got a free lesson for career day at school. Hope you post more pics of the plane as it goes together.

I wish I could do that for my students.

 

[daytona kid]

I wish I could do that for my students.

The instructor came from a nearby airport for our career day and offered a free lesson to anyone who wanted one, I was the only kid who did. Years later I went to a&p school with that same instructor. We did our practical on a plane once owned by Charles Lindbergh. Can't remember the make of plane but it was so old the motor had exposed valve springs. ha.. Aviation was a big thing for me back when. I spent a lot of time at Mojave and Edwards afb in the 80's, the epicenter of aviation. I envy you guys with that citabria. If I had ever owned a plane it would have been something like that. Keep us posted.

 

[showard]

Cool.. you using Randolph dope nitrate with aluminum paste as a UV barrier and smooth out the tapes and Butrate for colors?

Sounds like you have done some of this before. I am still learning some of this stuff. We have been doing the Polly Fiber process. Yes, we are using Polly Butrate (Polly Brush, Polly Spray. and Polly Tone).

 

[slimt]

Sounds like you have done some of this before. I am still learning some of this stuff. We have been doing the Polly Fiber process. Yes, we are using Polly Butrate (Polly Brush, Polly Spray. and Polly Tone).

Yup.. spent many years rebuilding Cubs, scouts, Citabrias, Vikings.. Eagles and Pitts.. Ceconite covering ceconite tapes.. cotton around the wing and tailfeather bows. I think its changed up a bit now.. not so labor intensive..

 

[showard]

I have been doing little odds and ends when I get some little time here and there.
I put the connecting rods on the door latch. Now I can open the doors from the interior.

I got some seals put in and the door exterior cat whiskers.
I now have sore pushing thumbs but I think that all went well. I used a light mallet to carefully tap in the top door seals. I read it was easier to put them in after the door window was set so that is why I did it in that order. THEY would be easier to put in before the window but it would probably make the window installation almost impassable.

 

[showard]

Just for fun,
Citabria update,
My brothers and I setting the Lycoming O-320, 150 horse power engine. This engine will do well for this small aerobatic airplane.

 

[showard]

I cleaned a few more parts and installed them. With the days getting darker earlier it has been easier for me to come in from outside and work on my car now. Tonight I cleaned and installed the rear window headliner brackets.

I also installed the padding, in the top of the cab, that I got from legendary a few years back.

 

[69 GTX]

Looking good!

 

[The Rebel]

Nice job!

 

[showard]

When I disassembled my car I took off these little clips that go on the top of the windshield opening and held the interior trim. When I reinstalled them they are now very loose. After looking at them it looks like the tabs were bent over and clamped on. When I removed the tabs bent and are now loose.
Does anyone have suggestions on how I can clamp these back on?

 

[69 GTX]

Can you set the tabs with a flat punch when you bend them over?

 

[moparnation74]

When I disassembled my car I took off these little clips that go on the top of the windshield opening and held the interior trim. When I reinstalled them they are now very loose. After looking at them it looks like the tabs were bent over and clamped on. When I removed the tabs bent and are now loose.
Does anyone have suggestions on how I can clamp these back on?
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When inserted you squeeze the outer small tabs and that sets the inner tabs...

I adjust them a bit on both sides. The backside get them to fit tight through the opening on the front side flare out more with a flat screwdriver. I think in my thread I show an example of this...I will check...

 

[moparnation74]

http://www.forbbodiesonly.com/mopar...y-father-my-69-gtx-restoration.127388/page-16

 

[showard]

http://www.forbbodiesonly.com/mopar...y-father-my-69-gtx-restoration.127388/page-16

Thanks Justin,
I can see how to fix it now. I was thinking like Tim and trying to figure how to get something down between the sheet metal and bend the tabs.