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"A guy know's he's in love when he loses interest in his car for a few days." -Tim Allen

He who dies with the most toys... still dies.


Check out my restoration!

We haven't had an update on this build lately but we have been working on the car.

I just haven't had time to make the posts to keep up.

If you've looked at any pictures of a Mirua, you've noticed that, when off, the headlights lay back into the fronmt clip kind of like a 928. When they are opened they are hinged todards the front & just pivot up.

If you look at detailed pics of the headlights, you'll find that all of this was done with 1960's technology.

Here's a few pics of what we did with them.







I call the back end of the light a stove pipe.



After getting the light hinge figured out on the right side of the car we worked on making the light so it would go up & down on command. In other words we worked on the light mechanism. We will be putting adjustable arms on these.









Archie

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First up we had to put the heaterbox back in, to make sure we left enough room for it when building the interior.



Then we installed Dynamat over all the nicely Powdercoated interior surfaces.





A long time ago, before the chassis was Powdercoated, we had mounted the major dash parts into the chassis so that we could establish the mounting points to the chassis. That way we wouldn't have to drill too many holes or do too much welding to the chassis after it was coated. So now we're going for a finished configuration then we can blow it apart to send it out for upholstery.



Notice the part we are starting with for the center console. It's the console pc. from my interior kit. Watch this part closely & you'll see it get greatly modified.



Notice how the 2 gage pod openings in front of the driver are off center to the steering wheel. Obviously the kit this dash was originally made for had the steering column a little farther outboard.





We have a center console/glovebox/cupholder thingie from a Jetta (I think) & the plan is to build it into the center console.



Here you see the VW console fitted down inside our console & you see that we've made a rear console cover to fit over the ECM area.



We didn't want to make that part from scratch because it would have wasted a lot of time. We also would have had to worry about making it symetrical. So we looked around all the stuff we have laying around & found that this wash tub (being used as a parts bin) was just the ticket. So we used it as a mold & made a part off of it. I love walking around hardware stores (or even plastic container stores) to find things that could be helpful when making other things.



Here is that center console I told you to watch getting another modification made to it.



Here you can see that we are progressing on the center console. At this point I think it has had about 6 mods done to it with more yet to go.







We even made a little coin tray type pocket so that when the cupholders pop out & open up there's room for the bottom part of the holder.



Archie

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[This message has been edited by RichLo (edited 02-26-2009).]