BUILD THREAD Project Olds Cool (Recognition!!)
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Man, Donovan, you are single handedly keeping me motivated to get back to my cars. I have started a new weekend warrior bar band that is in the throes of getting all the material together. Once we have our 45 songs done, I will have time to spend in the garage and get both the '88 H/O and '70 Cutlass S back into service. This winter (ha, Fla winter) will be the time I will put into the cars since it will be nice weather. We likely won't have any gigs until after New Year's Day anyway.
It's been too long...
It's been too long...
Proceeding ahead with the headliner material on the door panels plan.
Just mocked up in this picture, still don’t hate it...
Just mocked up in this picture, still don’t hate it...
Unless it's shag carpet I like the factory G body carpet on the bottom. What does your 70' have?
Aight Boils and Ghouls, it’s that time of year again. Halloween is fast approaching and we got our first taste of the white crap in my neck of the woods last night.
So garage season has officially restarted.
I got down to brass tacks tonight and pulled the lower door panel off the driver’s side. Cleaned the last remnants of old glue from the carpeted insert off with my trusty wax and grease remover, and made sure the surrounding areas were equally clean.
Now I’ve never really farted around with interior stuff much, I’ve always been more preoccupied with healthy engines and making exterior panels look purty, but I like to think I’m a pretty quick study. I’m fairly certain I stayed at a Holiday Inn once, and have watched an automotive show or two, so what the hell. I’ve got this.
I approached it the same way I would anything else, slow, steady and methodically. Not really any different than how I did the headliner, so here’s how it went.
Masked off the perimeter of the area to get glued...
...then covered the rest with masking paper. Greaaat, more flippin masking.
Took it over to the improvised plastic covered work bench, and laid in the headliner material insert. I placed it exactly where it had to go, then laid a sacrificial piece of masking paper over half of it and folded back half the material.
This piece of masking paper is to protect the half of the material I’m not working with from getting glue on it when I spray the half I am working on.
From there, it was spray the backside of the material, and the door panel where it is to stick down.
Now for the tricky part. I laid the material in the recess being extra careful not to stretch it. If I stretched it at all, I would have wrinkles I would not be able to get back out. The hardest part was not allowing the material to stick to the sides of the masking tape that had glue on them.
Halfway there...
... then prep the area to repeat the process for the other side:
Fully glued in now.
Time to unmask it. I carefully pulled the masking tape off back on itself at 180 degrees so that it wouldn’t pull the material off with it if it happened to be stuck to it in places. After it was unmasked, I used a tiny little bit of wax and grease remover on a clean cloth to remove any stray bits of glue that had made its way onto the material. A little Mother’s interior protectant cleaned up the rest of the door panel and made it look good without being greasy.
And voilà!
I ultimately decided to go this route rather than glueing the material to a piece of hardboard or the like, firstly because I hate working with wood, and secondly because I was concerned it might end up too heavy and stick out too far. Plus I’m cheap and didn’t have any on hand and didn’t want to buy a whole sheet just for this. It was a great suggestion though, thanks Spidereyes!
I’m very pleased with the end result, again I know headliner material seems like an odd choice to use here, but I really think it streamlines and updates the look just enough.
One done and the other to go, but first I’m going to remove the upper door panel and finish off this door. The spray wax treatment has already been done inside the driver’s door, so next I have to make a new vapour barrier for it and install the new door insulation I made before reinstalling the upper and lower door panels.
Now that garage season is officially back, stay tuned as I tackle and finish off the last of the mods and work to be done on Olds Cool before I get back onto The Juggernaut!
😉
D.
So garage season has officially restarted.
I got down to brass tacks tonight and pulled the lower door panel off the driver’s side. Cleaned the last remnants of old glue from the carpeted insert off with my trusty wax and grease remover, and made sure the surrounding areas were equally clean.
Now I’ve never really farted around with interior stuff much, I’ve always been more preoccupied with healthy engines and making exterior panels look purty, but I like to think I’m a pretty quick study. I’m fairly certain I stayed at a Holiday Inn once, and have watched an automotive show or two, so what the hell. I’ve got this.
I approached it the same way I would anything else, slow, steady and methodically. Not really any different than how I did the headliner, so here’s how it went.
Masked off the perimeter of the area to get glued...
...then covered the rest with masking paper. Greaaat, more flippin masking.
Took it over to the improvised plastic covered work bench, and laid in the headliner material insert. I placed it exactly where it had to go, then laid a sacrificial piece of masking paper over half of it and folded back half the material.
This piece of masking paper is to protect the half of the material I’m not working with from getting glue on it when I spray the half I am working on.
From there, it was spray the backside of the material, and the door panel where it is to stick down.
Now for the tricky part. I laid the material in the recess being extra careful not to stretch it. If I stretched it at all, I would have wrinkles I would not be able to get back out. The hardest part was not allowing the material to stick to the sides of the masking tape that had glue on them.
Halfway there...
... then prep the area to repeat the process for the other side:
Fully glued in now.
Time to unmask it. I carefully pulled the masking tape off back on itself at 180 degrees so that it wouldn’t pull the material off with it if it happened to be stuck to it in places. After it was unmasked, I used a tiny little bit of wax and grease remover on a clean cloth to remove any stray bits of glue that had made its way onto the material. A little Mother’s interior protectant cleaned up the rest of the door panel and made it look good without being greasy.
And voilà!
I ultimately decided to go this route rather than glueing the material to a piece of hardboard or the like, firstly because I hate working with wood, and secondly because I was concerned it might end up too heavy and stick out too far. Plus I’m cheap and didn’t have any on hand and didn’t want to buy a whole sheet just for this. It was a great suggestion though, thanks Spidereyes!
I’m very pleased with the end result, again I know headliner material seems like an odd choice to use here, but I really think it streamlines and updates the look just enough.
One done and the other to go, but first I’m going to remove the upper door panel and finish off this door. The spray wax treatment has already been done inside the driver’s door, so next I have to make a new vapour barrier for it and install the new door insulation I made before reinstalling the upper and lower door panels.
Now that garage season is officially back, stay tuned as I tackle and finish off the last of the mods and work to be done on Olds Cool before I get back onto The Juggernaut!
😉
D.
looks really awesome! I like it, I’m stealing that idea for mine later on lol.
Outstanding work 👏 as always Donovan
Cannot wait to see the vapor barrier and insulation installation
Cannot wait to see the vapor barrier and insulation installation
Sure, just pay me the royalties on the copyright and it’s all good!
😅
Thanks Tony. Shouldn’t be too long, I plan on starting to make the vapour barrier template and actual pieces tonight. The door insulation is already done (for one side at least).
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