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[oldeskewltoy]

Thanks for the kind words.......



She's got 5400 miles on the clock so far...... 189514 @ time of purchase, now with 194913




She is fully road worthy, although I've not had a chance yet to swap in the GT-S diff housing and disc brakes. Finalizing the rear diff is waiting for the J160 transmission with LEEN adapter .... once that is installed I'll finish the rear diff install.


In the mean time, I've decided what I'll be doing with the interior...... I've been going back and forth with the interior for almost a year now, part of me likes the OEM look, especially since I have the OEM rear privacy cover




And part of me wants something else...

The part that wants something else has won and to do that I'll need a little bit of custom work performed on the floor pan over the rear springs




note the red arrow is pointing to a taped over hole, the blue arrow is pointing to the hole itself, with the tape removed. The plan is to weld in a pair of nuts to these places, and along with the holes pointed @ by the purple arrows (nuts are already in here) I will build my self a wooden bed that goes from the back of the car, all the way to just behind the front seats. The area that was the rear seats will now be an enclosed, lockable storage area - either side openable independently of the other side. The holes in the cross member (black arrows) that the rear seat had slipped into will now be used as a place for the small locks to grab and latch onto



Here is the initial template for the rear beds main structure. The front 2 enclosures will each have a piano hinge attached to the front edge, while the back, over the spare tire, will have a single much longer piano hinge so that easy access of the spare tire is not compromised.




Initials plans for the rear bed, or platform include some form of tie downs so that they will securely hold whatever I decide to carry. Ideas on this are either brass pull up rings, or possible mounting roof rack rails to the bed itself with their accompanying slideable/lockable tiedowns




Oh... and almost slipping my mind... note the refinished rear interior panels now that they have been reconditioned