Gluing the doors together.....





We took the rear clip off & set it up so we can do the fiberglassing on the inside too.....



Here Kris has put metal around the windshield area, then we can fiberglass over the metal to make the windshield lip wider & stronger.



Finerglassing the inside....





After we remove the metal & before trimming this is the new area around the lip of the windshield.





Another layer of glass at the back edge of the door & you can see it's starting to look good.





Starting to look good.



Thanks

Archie

Here Kris has done some cutting & fitting of the grill instert into the grill opening....





Now that we know it's going to work, it's time to make the opening around the grill insert look like it was an exact fit.









In the meantime we've also been working on the door latches....









Every once in a while you gotta step back & see where you are. Here the front clip is off for glassing the nose area, the doors are open while we work on the latches & the rear clip is open as we start working on the rear clip latches.



The grill opening looks a lot better when the front clip is right side up & back on the car....







And finally, few in-process pics of the rear clip latches.....





Archie

First up we had to put the heaterbox back in, to make sure we left enough room for it when building the interior.



Then we installed Dynamat over all the nicely Powdercoated interior surfaces.





A long time ago, before the chassis was Powdercoated, we had mounted the major dash parts into the chassis so that we could establish the mounting points to the chassis. That way we wouldn't have to drill too many holes or do too much welding to the chassis after it was coated. So now we're going for a finished configuration then we can blow it apart to send it out for upholstery.



Notice the part we are starting with for the center console. It's the console pc. from my interior kit. Watch this part closely & you'll see it get greatly modified.



Notice how the 2 gage pod openings in front of the driver are off center to the steering wheel. Obviously the kit this dash was originally made for had the steering column a little farther outboard.





We have a center console/glovebox/cupholder thingie from a Jetta (I think) & the plan is to build it into the center console.



Here you see the VW console fitted down inside our console & you see that we've made a rear console cover to fit over the ECM area.



We didn't want to make that part from scratch because it would have wasted a lot of time. We also would have had to worry about making it symetrical. So we looked around all the stuff we have laying around & found that this wash tub (being used as a parts bin) was just the ticket. So we used it as a mold & made a part off of it. I love walking around hardware stores (or even plastic container stores) to find things that could be helpful when making other things.



Here is that center console I told you to watch getting another modification made to it.



Here you can see that we are progressing on the center console. At this point I think it has had about 6 mods done to it with more yet to go.







We even made a little coin tray type pocket so that when the cupholders pop out & open up there's room for the bottom part of the holder.



Archie

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