looking good chris!

 

Speaking of the parts car, here it is!

 

This thread wins all of the everything. SO crazy. Looking forward to the final product!

 

Haha Thanks!

Dropped the car off for paint this afternoon. I spent most of the day trying to get the Heater Valve off the firewall and unstuck. Once I got it off it didn't take much to get it functional again.

Also, I think I've decided on a color finally.. I'm pretty sure it's going to be the same color as my fathers Austin Healey:

 

I need to visit soon

 

fresh

 

So I finally made a little moer progress on the dash this afternoon:

I started with this (3 broken pieces):


The best thing I could come up with on how to re-attach these pieces would be to use metal or wooden dowel pins to connect the pieces and use some 3M vinyl glue to hold everything together. Here is the result:
Wooden Dowels:


This is how I marked the location on the adjoining piece:


I used 2 Dowels on every piece I could:


The end result:






Overall, I am happy with the result. I will use the padded dash filler to fill in the gaps and hopefully this will also add a little bit of strength to it as well. Stopped by the body shop today and gave them the paint code and also got to see a little progress on it, but I had no camera with me

 

oh snap!

 

Props to you for taking on such an extensive project. Good luck.

 

looks good, chris