Starting to put the interior back together, new carpets, refurbished dashboard, rewebbed seatbelts – it’s looking like a car again:
Monthly Archives: May 2014
License Plate light bar restoration:
Most wagons that I have seen have rusty rear license plate bars, here is mine before:
I sent it off to be re chromed by Pauls Chrome on the east cost – I then started masking everything off for the black paint:
Painted black:
Masking removed & final product:
Wagon external trim
The original plastic trim for the wagon was very faded. So, I painted it gloss black with the SEM product, masked everything up, and shot it silver:
Looks like new, Here they are installed:
Dasboard Repair
I opted to go for a dash cap to cover the cracked dashboard on the Toyota. I got the original color of the dash matched for some SEM color coat paint and gave it a go.
Here I am gluing the dash cap onto the dash pad, holding everything together with clamps:
After the glue was all dry, I spray painted it with SEM color coat: