Under cover Resto
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always loved the look of your car
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Looking good Karl, Nice work on the underneath. Still really like your front hood gaps.
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Must the one of the coolest if not the coolest 356 out there.
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Bless you all for your kind comments, I'll send the cheques
later.
I'm trying to work out the best way to install harnesses in the
rear for the children and how to make it less thunderous inside.
Hole drilling and dynamat I think!
later.
I'm trying to work out the best way to install harnesses in the
rear for the children and how to make it less thunderous inside.
Hole drilling and dynamat I think!
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Cool car. I have used these in mine:
http://shop.greenpower.co.uk/index.php/ ... rness.html
Proper top quality 4 point harness, kids size. Still involves hole drilling though.
W
http://shop.greenpower.co.uk/index.php/ ... rness.html
Proper top quality 4 point harness, kids size. Still involves hole drilling though.
W
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Thanks for the update, great job. Big surface area backing plates on the seatbelt mounts is what I learned.
Do you still think you'll paint it one day? Good honest patina is getting rarer (as opposed to the faux rust hood rides bollox), but its your car not ours!
From the other thread I just watched Jay Leno's garage on his unrestored, very patinated gulling racer..so, so much nicer than the restored cars. Racing mercs, just like old Porsches, earned their reputation by being tough under adversity - and for this reason patina suits them perfectly.
Do you still think you'll paint it one day? Good honest patina is getting rarer (as opposed to the faux rust hood rides bollox), but its your car not ours!
From the other thread I just watched Jay Leno's garage on his unrestored, very patinated gulling racer..so, so much nicer than the restored cars. Racing mercs, just like old Porsches, earned their reputation by being tough under adversity - and for this reason patina suits them perfectly.
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After looking at photos from Andy's (lightweight911) posts about harnesses, I made a cross bar to wrap the harness webbing around. Don't inspect the welding it's effective but ugly. Then I made some backing spreader plates out of some bullet proof metal. I managed to install the lap belts low enough, it did mean cutting into the rear seat cushion but felt this was justified as I don't think the covering was original any-way.
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Great update Karl, car looks cool as ever.
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Fabrication, PM me.
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Fabrication, PM me.
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I found this old post and thought I would use it to add updates to.
Keep some continuity going, and all that.
So , for 17 years of owning this car its never had a usable glove box.
A PO had cut a big hole in the rear for whatever reason.
I utilised some CAD skills Cardboard Aided Design.
I found that layering up the corn flakes box by 5, I got roughly the correct
thickness to match the glove box material.
I sprayed the large flat surfaces with water , one at a time, and clamped them flat and allowed to dry.
This brought a lot of neatness back, but don't clamp too tight or impressions are left in the surface.
Where it had delaminated I pushed a paint brush between with watered down PVA and reclamped and left over night.
It took a little over a week as I was leaving each bit of work to dry over night.
356 by karlhash, on Flickr
356 by karlhash, on Flickr
I then made a repair section by layering up cardboard over a spray can, this gave me roughly the shape of the back curve.
The spray can also came in handy for clamping the rear back into straight lines.
356 by karlhash, on Flickr
Once I had a good shape to fit the hole I delaminated the cornflakes box for thin pieces of card and layed these over the joins of the repair patch.
All glued in with more watered down PVA.
356 by karlhash, on Flickr
356 by karlhash, on Flickr
After I was happy with the shape and patches, I mixed up some acrylic paint to match the grey exterior and gave it a coat.
Then I scraped or shaved out the old flocking with a Stanley blade.
Using the acrylic paint as the gluing agent, I painted the inside and blew light grey flocking fibres into it wet, with a home made
flocking blaster. I had seen manufactured blasters for sale and thought lets make one instead of paying £20 for basically a cardboard tube.
If you want to do the same, I found that a toilet roll tube diameter fits nicely over a kitchen roll tube.
I did add some masking tape around the smaller tube to get a better/closer fit. For the ends a yoghurt pot or similar sized desert pot is close enough.
With 5 holes punched in one end you are now equipped with a pump action flocking gun.
356 by karlhash, on Flickr
356 by karlhash, on Flickr
The finish is acceptable but not perfect, but that suits the rest of the car I think.
Most importantly though, my partner Hazel can open the the glove box door without a view of her feet and can actually put stuff in it !
Karl
356 by karlhash, on Flickr
356 by karlhash, on Flickr
356 by karlhash, on Flickr
Keep some continuity going, and all that.
So , for 17 years of owning this car its never had a usable glove box.
A PO had cut a big hole in the rear for whatever reason.
I utilised some CAD skills Cardboard Aided Design.
I found that layering up the corn flakes box by 5, I got roughly the correct
thickness to match the glove box material.
I sprayed the large flat surfaces with water , one at a time, and clamped them flat and allowed to dry.
This brought a lot of neatness back, but don't clamp too tight or impressions are left in the surface.
Where it had delaminated I pushed a paint brush between with watered down PVA and reclamped and left over night.
It took a little over a week as I was leaving each bit of work to dry over night.
356 by karlhash, on Flickr
356 by karlhash, on Flickr
I then made a repair section by layering up cardboard over a spray can, this gave me roughly the shape of the back curve.
The spray can also came in handy for clamping the rear back into straight lines.
356 by karlhash, on Flickr
Once I had a good shape to fit the hole I delaminated the cornflakes box for thin pieces of card and layed these over the joins of the repair patch.
All glued in with more watered down PVA.
356 by karlhash, on Flickr
356 by karlhash, on Flickr
After I was happy with the shape and patches, I mixed up some acrylic paint to match the grey exterior and gave it a coat.
Then I scraped or shaved out the old flocking with a Stanley blade.
Using the acrylic paint as the gluing agent, I painted the inside and blew light grey flocking fibres into it wet, with a home made
flocking blaster. I had seen manufactured blasters for sale and thought lets make one instead of paying £20 for basically a cardboard tube.
If you want to do the same, I found that a toilet roll tube diameter fits nicely over a kitchen roll tube.
I did add some masking tape around the smaller tube to get a better/closer fit. For the ends a yoghurt pot or similar sized desert pot is close enough.
With 5 holes punched in one end you are now equipped with a pump action flocking gun.
356 by karlhash, on Flickr
356 by karlhash, on Flickr
The finish is acceptable but not perfect, but that suits the rest of the car I think.
Most importantly though, my partner Hazel can open the the glove box door without a view of her feet and can actually put stuff in it !
Karl
356 by karlhash, on Flickr
356 by karlhash, on Flickr
356 by karlhash, on Flickr
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Brilliant Karl !!
My favourite post of the year ...
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Brilliant Karl !!
My favourite post of the year ...
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Lovely use of the cornflake packets
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Very creative
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Any post with cornflake packets, toilet rolls and yogurt pots gets a thumbs up from me
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Its not how fast you go, but how you go fast
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2010 987 Spyder
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Its not how fast you go, but how you go fast
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Love this so much....can you post recent exterior pics as car sits today?
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Absolutely brilliant! Technology I can understand
I hope that after this lockdown more people will have discovered how to repair and rebuild rather than dump and buy new.
JW
I hope that after this lockdown more people will have discovered how to repair and rebuild rather than dump and buy new.
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1970 914/6 2.4E/Webers
1970 VW Beetle project
1972 911 Hillclimber 3.2 MFI. Part of the family for 30+ years!
2006 Hymer Merc Starline 630
2000 T4 Van LPG
2000 Golf V5 Estate GT (Greyhound Transport!)