Swingin' '73 Dart
Thanks HG800. My avatar is also my tattoo.
We woke up this morning to a duster-ing of snow.
Time to make room in the garage.
Since the seat is out and torn apart, I found a box to sit on. It's kind of a funny box, because it's an old copier toner box that says "USED" on it and next to that says "WINE", because well the box came from my wife's office and had the "USED" on it and we used it to move, hence the "WINE". It's all cheep white wine and has been in this box since we moved in here in Dec of '05. When I told her I used the "USED WINE" box for a seat, she knew exactly what I was talking about. But, I digress.
I started the day taking Mrs. Frogpirate to work, and then coming back to the house for breaky. I loaded up the seat frame and took it up to the auto upholstery shop to get an estimate. Right at $600 including spring repair. More that I can spend right now, but really not that bad considering Legandary wants almost $500 just for the cover.
Dirty door panel.
Time to start cleaning up front. I removed the arm rest, window & door knob, and lock button and scrubbed the door panel. The sill and jamb got the same treatment, and the hinges got soaked in oil.
Yucky.
I also got the foot well panel cleaned up and scrubbed the dash. I took out the crap radio, and got a rude shock.
Some rat bast*rd hacked the dash.
I probably should have know this was there, but for some reason I'd hoped the dash was virgin. I guess it's Karmic payback for the dashes *I* hacked when I was a kid. :munky2:
Ok, so here is the door panel all cleaned up.
Much nicer.
I need to take the panel off and glue down that little tear, and see if I can get one of those vinyl repair kits to hide it as best as possible. I got the dash scrubbed and broke for lunch (and another episode of Top Gear; I'm addicted). The dash really needs painted, so I'm going to pull it and take it down to my friend's to see if we can just weld up the radio hole. Later I'll cut a DIN hole for a modern radio.
I decided to see of I could find some springs online, as the side 'S' springs are standard items. A quick search turned them up and I headed out to home upholstery shop to see if they sold them locally. He does, and has it "by the roll" and will cut and bend them for me. Whoo hoo! So I came home and took the broken springs off the frame.
Yep, that spring is broken.
So not a lot of progress today, but hey at least "Homer" (Mrs. Frogpirate has named him) is in the garage dry and warm.
Toys, toys, toys. Necky Kayak, motorcycles, Homer.
Aprilia Tuono (RED), Suzuki V-Strom 650 (flat black), Homer
Thanks HG800. My avatar is also my tattoo.
We woke up this morning to a duster-ing of snow.
Time to make room in the garage.
Since the seat is out and torn apart, I found a box to sit on. It's kind of a funny box, because it's an old copier toner box that says "USED" on it and next to that says "WINE", because well the box came from my wife's office and had the "USED" on it and we used it to move, hence the "WINE". It's all cheep white wine and has been in this box since we moved in here in Dec of '05. When I told her I used the "USED WINE" box for a seat, she knew exactly what I was talking about. But, I digress.
I started the day taking Mrs. Frogpirate to work, and then coming back to the house for breaky. I loaded up the seat frame and took it up to the auto upholstery shop to get an estimate. Right at $600 including spring repair. More that I can spend right now, but really not that bad considering Legandary wants almost $500 just for the cover.
Dirty door panel.
Time to start cleaning up front. I removed the arm rest, window & door knob, and lock button and scrubbed the door panel. The sill and jamb got the same treatment, and the hinges got soaked in oil.
Yucky.
I also got the foot well panel cleaned up and scrubbed the dash. I took out the crap radio, and got a rude shock.
Some rat bast*rd hacked the dash.
I probably should have know this was there, but for some reason I'd hoped the dash was virgin. I guess it's Karmic payback for the dashes *I* hacked when I was a kid. :munky2:
Ok, so here is the door panel all cleaned up.
Much nicer.
I need to take the panel off and glue down that little tear, and see if I can get one of those vinyl repair kits to hide it as best as possible. I got the dash scrubbed and broke for lunch (and another episode of Top Gear; I'm addicted). The dash really needs painted, so I'm going to pull it and take it down to my friend's to see if we can just weld up the radio hole. Later I'll cut a DIN hole for a modern radio.
I decided to see of I could find some springs online, as the side 'S' springs are standard items. A quick search turned them up and I headed out to home upholstery shop to see if they sold them locally. He does, and has it "by the roll" and will cut and bend them for me. Whoo hoo! So I came home and took the broken springs off the frame.
Yep, that spring is broken.
So not a lot of progress today, but hey at least "Homer" (Mrs. Frogpirate has named him) is in the garage dry and warm.
Toys, toys, toys. Necky Kayak, motorcycles, Homer.
Aprilia Tuono (RED), Suzuki V-Strom 650 (flat black), Homer