Wednesday, August 16, 2023

Final mock up to make sure everything fits before starting to prepare the sofa for paint.





All detailes where not ready when I started putting it together so some final fabrication work was needed.


More bead rolling was done to the rear part of back rest to try and imitate backrest of a 65-66 station wagon Dart, same theme as with the beads made earlier. 

Back side primered and ready.



Found a used motorcycle licence plate I liked on a swap meet. The paint has a tendency to peal of so I cleaned the plate and sprayed it with clear coat this will hopefully prevent paint from pealin of further.


  


To install the licence plate a simple bracket for fastening to bumber was made. Its not dented even if it looks like it in the picture!




Friday, August 11, 2023

"Restoring" the bumper

 The rear bumper is in bad shape it is bent and rusty, started with straigtening it in the shop press.



The corners where totally rusted out! Only the crome made it look intact. Cut out the rusty part to have something to weld to. Used 3mm flatbar so I have enough material to grind the shape of the bumber.





One corner welded and grinded.


Same procedure on the other side witch is in worse shape.

Several pieces where needed here.




Roughly grinded in shape



Bumper fastening brackets painted.




Inside of bumper painted black.



Visible side of bumber is grinded down and covered with clear coating. 

An alternative here would have been painting or wrapping witch would have enabled use of bondo to cover remaining imperfections but I will try it like this as I like the fact that repairs can be seen. I can always paint or wrap later if I feel like it.





"Paint booth"


left to dry over night.



Reassembly of fastening brackets.





Tuesday, August 8, 2023

Fastening of plywood for seat and backrest

Fastening the backrest. 
Started with drilling 9mm holes in the frame. Aimed to get the holes in a straight line and with even spaces inbetween.


Clamped the backrest and drilled 8mm holes true the plywood.

This is the M8 threaded hardware used.
Backrest installed.


The plywood is covered with mold protective coat of "saunasuoja" with brown pigment.




Next up for backrest and seat is upholstery.




Final details done and the project is now ready!

 Here are some pictures of how it turned out.