Re: Larry's 1951 Club Sedan Project

Posted by Larry51 On 2014/6/23 20:22:39

Having been away for a couple of months then doing home renovations not much has been done on the 51 for a long while. But gladly I'm back to it now. My blog is retrospective, some of the stuff done was from earlier, before I went off. I'll try and do some catch-up blogging! Not my strongest point, keeping up with the paperwork. When I read some of the great and very helpful posts others have put up it makes me realize it is worthwhile to keep the stories going.

My list of things to get done has now become just a couple of pages instead of a daunting list of hundreds of tasks, so that is encouraging. I plan to have it on the road in a month or two. Most important things to get done for driving it are

- Complete exhaust fitted
- Seats reupholstered and all trim fitted
- Fit petrol tank
- Rubber seals all round
- Bumper bars and brackets on
- Windscreen in, wipers fitted

But there's also a lot of minor stuff like making kick panels, fitting under-seat heater, fitting stainless trim on, plus much more.

Just before I left on the trip the internal door trim panels arrived with broadcloth and vinyl from SMS upholstery. Luckily I ordered these a year ago so in a way they're just in time! Very nice job and they are exact copies of the originals, which I still have.

Meanwhile, I'm off to the upholsterer with a trailer-full of coupe seats, to get a quote on the job of recovering them.