I've always enjoyed trimming car panels, but I've previously had pre-formed door cards, and other pre-formed panels to work from. All I had now were the grotty bits of carpet with all the rigidity of damp lettuce. To make a decent job of the trimming I need hardboard formers that would be screwed to the doors and other interior surfaces. I guess in the end it didn't go too badly but it did involve a lot of planing and filing to get the hardboard into the right shape. After I'd done the door cards and the rear luggage area I became aware of a film of hardboard dust over pretty much everything in the garage. Hmmmm - best separate the workshop area from the car. A large piece of Visqueen, left over from the house build, did the job, and allowed me to benefit from the small fan heater I keep for cold days as it reduced the area being heated. Progress was fair over the next week or so as panel after panel was covered with leathercloth.
It had been fairly typical to build a transmission from ply in these cars, and my car was no exception having a rather crude ply structure running from bulkhead to luggage space. This had to go, and it didn't take much to remove it. In its place I formed an aluminium tunnel that ran forwards from behind the seats to the gearchange. It was also my plan to build a transmission tunnel over the gear remote change, but more of that later.
I had to fiddle around with the door locks as the slightly greater thickness of the trim panels stopped them shutting fully. However, I was pleased with the end result. Now to move on to other things....
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