How am I doing? (Page 4/31) randye JAN 07, 06:23 PM Hood is back from the painter...again...and it finally looks like it matches the rest of the paint. Left front fender still isn't quite the right color, but we will shoot ity again on the car since there are nice edges to paint to and no blending necessary. The car looks like it's smiling at me every time I go out in the garage. randye JAN 07, 06:38 PM With some down-time over the holiday, I managed to find this little item. It looks and fits almost like it was specifically made for a Fiero I think I may fabricate a small bracket to fit up under the rear of the roof "lip", or it also looks like this light could simply be installed with 3M double sided tape. I think that the wire can be fed into the stock light housing inside thru a small hole poked in the "goo" around the rear window up at the top and behind the LED light where it won't be seen. I'm trying to find a source for more of these lights and might offer them for sale if there's any interest. The one I have is weatherproof and testing it on 12VDC it lights up BRITE!! randye JAN 07, 06:49 PM Finally getting around to some more of the interior trim. I thought that I would try to replicate the style of the Mr. Mikes seats on the center armrst console, so I shot the main body of the console with SEM Products satin black vinyl paint and shot the door with presidio grey. Installed, but I think the satin black is the wrong color. I'll probably take it back out and use some "charcoal grey" or other color that matches the seat leather and stock console vinyl better. The SEM strips off with acetone, (don't ask me how I know that), but it takes some work and a LOT of rags. Oh-well..one step forward, two steps back, but I want it right. The shifter console was reglued, (what a nasty job, but well worth it), and the shifter trim plate was painted with SEM satin black...here I think it looks ok and I'll probably leave it this color. New windorw switches, power mirror switch and switch plate were installed and I thought I'd see what this nifty little chrome shift handle would look like. I figure you want to use chrome on the interior lkike jewelry..don't over-do it, just a little here and there, tastefully. randye JAN 07, 06:57 PM Mirrors are painted and reassembled. I didn't know that the only way to properly reinstall the power mirror motors was to have the glass part of the mirror OUT of it's holder. Some very careful work with a small flat screwdriver and a thin piece of aluminum strip and I miraculously managed to get both mirror glass out with no damage! Once the motors were reinstalled in the mirror housings, the glass was reattached with some marine silicone sealant and adhesive. randye JAN 07, 07:08 PM Ran into another problem with the drivers side door. I replaced the bushings and upper hinge pin but didn't notice how worn out the body side hinge hole was. It's wobbled out bad enough to need to be re-drilled and have a bushing put in, so the drivers side door skin will have to be taken back off...good thing too because I noted from this photo that I need to readjust the hinges to move the door inward to line up with the fender! Another step forward and two or three more steps backward.... randye JAN 07, 07:24 PM The fuel door is all painted and reinstalled, but I am waiting on some nice tinted MsLori quarter windows to install to fill up those gaping holes on the quarter sails. All the body panels still ned to be wet sanded and buffed, but the shine is already great. This thing should be SLICK once the paint finishing work is done. The new Fiero Store side mioldings and marker lights look good. The outside door handles I bought on Ebay and they match nicely with the new moldings and markers. Wiper arms were sanded, cleaned and painted with Duplicolor black trim paint. The plastic cowling was scrubbed with #0000 steel wool and soaked down with medical grade flourinated silicone oil. It now looks almost like new. texasfiero JAN 07, 07:51 PM Great work Randye. You have a PM exoticse JAN 11, 12:26 AM Randye, Any chance you can roll it out and take a full, level side shot ?? Thanks Tony randye JAN 11, 01:47 PM quote Originally posted by exoticse: Randye, Any chance you can roll it out and take a full, level side shot ?? Thanks Tony Sure, there's a chance... I've been so busy I actually forgot to pull it out of the garage to get the "full view from afar" Once all this stuff is done I'll have to go find some nice store windows where I can do the the "U-VIEW-U" thing.... 10 "old timer points" for anyone who remembers that old MAD Magazine cartoon and can describe it Randy David DeVoe JAN 12, 01:14 PM Gorgeous car, absolutely beautiful but you rotten guys who live where there are palm trees, you aint real car guys like up in Michigan where we get to lay on our backs on freezing concrete or out in the mud shaking with chills and fever just to do the simplest thing which takes hours in the freezing cold. Thats dedication, not to mention that every single part of the car is rust welded to every other part and needs to be blasted apart. I could whine with jealousy like this for hours but I think I can hear you laughing so I'll shut the hell up. Love those seats man they just look RIGHT in there. Gotta love it when a Fiero gets done right.