Major Milestone! The Car Has Doors (And Hood, And Trunk Lid)
Dateline - 08/13/2016 - This was panel hanging weekend. Matt and Karen came over and helped me hang all the panels. It was a hot day on Saturday and we sweated a lot in my hot garage, but managed to get the trunk, hood, all four doors and the back fender valances hung and except for one small cut finger, no major accidents or injuries! Matt and I were pretty knackered by the end of the day though and so we all went out to Outback Steakhouse for dinner (because yours truly didn't get the stakes out of the freezer in time to thaw completely!).
Matt brought his cameras over to log what was going on and took some really cool wide angle lens shots (the wide angle makes my stomach look bigger then it really is. Honest!) He also set up a camera that took a picture every 15 seconds and made a really cool time laps video. All are included below:
Mounting trunk lid
Trunk lid mounted
Taking off hood latch so we could close the hood for fitting
All the relays in the dash
Interior dash
The usual state of my workbench! Okay! Not the cleanest work area in the world!
Interior with doors closed
Dash from the top
And here is the video on YouTube.com
On Sunday, I did some more fitting. I ended up taking the hood off again because I could not get the latches to work. I had welded down the tongues on the hood which took away the flexibility needed for them to engage with the latches. So I had to take the hood off and beat in the area of the hood that meets with the hinges. This positioned the hood back about 1/2 inch when closed, and allowed the tongues to insert correctly into the latches.
I also mounted the front valance piece that runs between the fenders under the bumper. This wasn't too difficult but we had run out of energy on Saturday to do this.
I was really sore on Sunday and it was getting hot again, so I ran out of steam pretty quickly, but I did manage to get one door seal mounted on the driver side front door. Then I called it quits!
Still have a ways to go, but big progress none the less!
