Rocker's 1973 Duster "Clara"
I made a few quick changes to the car in April, right before the start of this year’s cruise season. At the time I didn’t plan to do any real work on the car until the end of this year, as I live in an apartment and did not have access to a garage. One of the previous owners painted/dyed the interior black, and in the process also resprayed the gauge cluster the same. Since cluster was fully functional so I purchased a parts cluster and swapped the front plate. The faux wood grain breaks up the boring black dash.
I picked up an A body bench seat off of CL. The small split you see in the pic is the only damage on it! Underneath the foam and mesh are 100% intact, and Best part…I picked it up for $100. I almost felt bad. I am not a fan of bucket seats, especially when they don’t match. I also scored a set of NOS knobs for the seat adjust levers off of Ebay.
This was taken right after the seat was dropped into place, so it is a bit dusty here still.
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Keeping with the color scheme, I pulled my emblems to “refresh” them. I wanted to do them right the first time, so I sent them to Leanna to be powder coated, and the pictures below are the results. I didn’t realize pot metal could be coated, and soo nicely at that!
Pics taken after they were completed at PSC.
Back on the car. Really like how they pop!
More to come...
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I made a few quick changes to the car in April, right before the start of this year’s cruise season. At the time I didn’t plan to do any real work on the car until the end of this year, as I live in an apartment and did not have access to a garage. One of the previous owners painted/dyed the interior black, and in the process also resprayed the gauge cluster the same. Since cluster was fully functional so I purchased a parts cluster and swapped the front plate. The faux wood grain breaks up the boring black dash.
I picked up an A body bench seat off of CL. The small split you see in the pic is the only damage on it! Underneath the foam and mesh are 100% intact, and Best part…I picked it up for $100. I almost felt bad. I am not a fan of bucket seats, especially when they don’t match. I also scored a set of NOS knobs for the seat adjust levers off of Ebay.
This was taken right after the seat was dropped into place, so it is a bit dusty here still.
[FONT="]Keeping with the color scheme, I pulled my emblems to “refresh” them. I wanted to do them right the first time, so I sent them to Leanna to be powder coated, and the pictures below are the results. I didn’t realize pot metal could be coated, and soo nicely at that!
Pics taken after they were completed at PSC.
Back on the car. Really like how they pop!
More to come...
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