Another long week since my last post and also the second anniversary of the ordering of the kit and 13 months since taking delivery of the first bits.
Anyway, last report ended with me sizing up the dashboard cheek pieces and seeing them as a not deparately good fit. so the first job was to rectify that. Firstly they needed a bit of reshaping including removing the tang at the forward end. The inner edge needed to be abit wider in places. Fibreglass can sort that out...Here is one side with a mold made from cardboard and masking tape.
Then they need covering in van liner cloth.This stuff is very stretchy and can be persuaded to follow almost any contour.
Here is the dashboard with them installed with the temperature gauge on the stbd side and the cut off switch to port.
The next job was to install the radio aerial! (It gives a clue as to the progress being made when that job came to the top of the list.) The kit did include an aerial that looked as it it had been made in the early '60s. It did have a coax cable which I used to extend the original cable. I actually added the new bit in the middle of the original as I wanted to keep the original termination. The inside of the A pillar had already been covered in vinyl so the top was peeled back...
.... the coax threaded up the A pillar and across the top of the windscreen and out by the courtesy light...
... then screwed to the original aerial after a bit of nibbling on the roof ...
Looks pretty good I think.
Next time its another myriad of little jobs...
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