1969 Dodge Dart Pro-Street 440

[Taxmanth]

Wrapping this gauge cluster is going to be a pain i can see it now. On the plus sude i made a template out of wrapping paper on the first try

 

[Taxmanth]

Here goes nothing

 

[Taxmanth]

Day three n this is as far as i got fucckkkkkk

 

[Taxmanth]

After a week this is finially done, omg ti kicked my *** but sewing machine vs me and this gauge cluster we made it happen

 

[Taxmanth]

Idk y these photos r uploading upsidedown but w.e, check me out black n purple

 

[Taxmanth]

Looks just fin on top of the car, but it belongs on the inside lol installllll time

 

[Taxmanth]

First things first, use extra leather to wrap the steering column, got to make it look nice too.

 

[Taxmanth]

Installed boom, some troubles, but all n all im not taking it back out again so w.e, but its not too bad

 

[Taxmanth]

Ok heres a better shot of the sewing job i wrestled with. Its super clarey and its not even day time out.... Stupid camera.

 

[Taxmanth]

Headliner time. Shout out to my dad, he gave me his huge roll. Idk where he got it from but there was a roll the size of the titanic boiler in his gerage hahah

 

[LocuMob]

Is there anything you don't do? Nice work and glad to see you are getting as much done as you are.

 

[Taxmanth]

Hahaha jack of all trades. I know how us car guys do bisness

 

[Taxmanth]

The painless harness had provisions for a dome light and a third brake light.

I have some alunimum angles left over from the becool radiator and so i got some led strips to fab me up some new lights

 

[Taxmanth]

Tada three brake lights

 

[Taxmanth]

This is what it looks like so far. I'm happy with the great. Breaks up the all black cockpit. And complements the purple too.

I wants to install in one way but the sail panels I had to make and I didn't make the even the first time. So every time I look in the review mirror I would have noticed it and it would have pissed me off so bad every time I looked backwards. So I had to make it perfect.

I hope o can wake up early and Finnish it before I go back to work tomorrow

 

[Taxmanth]

A better pic of the dash

 

[Taxmanth]

Finished the headliner. Came out ok. Just hope the glue holds up a few years n doesn't start saggin on me n piss me off lol

 

[Taxmanth]

Also notice the light In that last picture? Yupp while the glue was drying I installed the dome light. Works like a champ and on both doors. Awesome!

Would have liked my switch Parnell to light up but that would have been wayyy to much work.

 

[Taxmanth]

The headliner was in a huge roll so i made the bulk of it out of one pice. All i did was cut out the holes for the windows

 

[Taxmanth]

Notice the tape hangining on the roll cage? Thats how i made all the tlates for the sail pannels and the a pillers.

I tape the edges where i want the fabric and then peal the tape off and lay it on the what i want to cut out.

Add a inch to the sides i wanted to stitch and tada! They fit perfict:glasses7:

 

[Taxmanth]

Haha srry heres the picture

 

[Taxmanth]

Making door skins out of 1/8 plexiglass. First i had to measure the door, the front side has a slight bow in it, but my glass does not have enough material to made that shape.

I got it from lowes, the top of the door is 40.5" the sheet i have is 41". Plus the original door skin also used push clips to hold it in place. Those are long gone! They have huge holes on the edges so not following the contour of the front of the door will help me bypass that problem of trying to find big *** screws to fit in them

 

[Taxmanth]

The door is 40.5" long and 14.5 tall. So i broke out the ol andle grinder n my straight edge and went to town.

The glass is clear. Its just a white protective coating on it. After cutting out the glass i held it up to the door and used a marker to trace and cut out the holes for the window crank and the door handle.

 

[Taxmanth]

Once i got the holes to line up in a way i was happy with i crossed my fingers and held that pannel to the driver door inside out, and i got lucky, the door is a exact mirrior immage.

So i took the skin i just made and flipped in backwards and cut it out for the driver side.

 

[mguner]

Some short plastic drywall anchors might be the ticket for those fat screw holes....