Re: HA's 52 200 Grey Ghost
Posted by Hans Ahlness On 2016/8/24 15:48:13
Door panels are now installed. My sewing expert (wife) used the same vinyl materials as the seat covers, we thought up a simple design to make them look nice. I used new backing boards, got them from the local upholstery supply place - kind of a cross between masonite and cardboard. Cut them to match the old panels, glued some 1/4" foam padding to them after marking and punching all the holes for the clips that hold the panels to the doors.
Then installed the covers over the foam, glued to the backside. Had to carefully cut the padding out of the ivory patterned sections where it folds around the board to have clean vinyl to glue.
I had made the holes for the door handles and the armrests before I covered the boards, so poked holes through from the back and then carefully widened as needed once clipped to the doors. I painted the door handle bases and window crank knobs red (they were black) and also painted the plastic bases of the armrests ivory white. I used Krylon Fusion paint for the plastic parts. I removed the old black material from the armrest pads, it came right off of the old rubber pads. Stretched and glued red vinyl to those and reassembled, they turned out nicely.
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Then installed the covers over the foam, glued to the backside. Had to carefully cut the padding out of the ivory patterned sections where it folds around the board to have clean vinyl to glue.
I had made the holes for the door handles and the armrests before I covered the boards, so poked holes through from the back and then carefully widened as needed once clipped to the doors. I painted the door handle bases and window crank knobs red (they were black) and also painted the plastic bases of the armrests ivory white. I used Krylon Fusion paint for the plastic parts. I removed the old black material from the armrest pads, it came right off of the old rubber pads. Stretched and glued red vinyl to those and reassembled, they turned out nicely.
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