57 hard top build.

[Florida 57]

Although not even close to the interior part of the build, I welded studs to the stainless trim then polished.I laser cut plastic door-quarter interior panels and will be secured to doors and quarter metal with plastic clips. The small pointed securing tabs that would normally work fine with cardboard panels are too short and will probably break off with the thicker plastic panels when attaching.There will be no back seat due to the mini tubs and cage.I elongated the rear metal arm rests to balance out the look and cut down four door HT rear stainless trim to conform with the curve as two door trim is too short.

[chevynut]

Looks like progress! Keep posting updates.

[carls 56 (RIP 11/24/2021)]

nice work, trim looks good.

[567chevys]

Good progress, Keep going Looks nice



Sid

[Florida 57]

Drilled holes for door light wires to go through the top two hinges.

[Florida 57]

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[Florida 57]

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[Florida 57]

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[Florida 57]

LED third brake light fashioned from a 1954 Autronic Eye mounted on a one piece 20 gauge package tray.
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[Florida 57]

Rear cross bars were removed since pic. was taken.
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[Florida 57]

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[Florida 57]

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[Florida 57]

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[Florida 57]

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[Florida 57]

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[Florida 57]

I cut the top of a 70`s era Ohio license plate and welded to the dash.Final body work to be completed after primer.Mocked up some dash mounted gauges on a steel plate.
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[Florida 57]

Mock up of my Autometer Pro-Comp gauges.I wanted to use the backing plates from an original cluster to secure the gauges.I filled in the old holes and cut new ones to accommodate the lights, screws and speedo cable.I cut rubber gaskets to take up the space behind the gauges... Speedo - 1/4 in. and oil-temp.-1/8 in.I also had to cut 1/4 in. off the new speedo bezel for it and speedo to fit. I`m showing both clusters to see the difference.I also made a plate to fill in the speaker grill for three more gauges to face me as I drive. I will have two less important gauges in the console facing me. I like to keep my eyes on the road or track.
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[chevynut]

None of your pics are showing up for me. :(

[Florida 57]

None of your pics are showing up for me. :(
They show for me, so how do I fix it?

[Belair-o]

I see the pics - lots of innovative work! Thanks for sharing your progress! Doug

[chevynut]

I still don't see them. Does anyone else? There's nothing there for me except the words....not even a red X....nothing. :confused:

[Troy]

I don't see them either!

[WagonCrazy]

The last pic that shows up (for me) is the hinges with the holes drilled in them.
All other posts since that one have no pics...just the text.

[BamaNomad]

I was able to see all of his photos....

[chevynut]

The last pic that shows up (for me) is the hinges with the holes drilled in them.
All other posts since that one have no pics...just the text.

That's exactly what I see. I wonder why some can see all the pics and some of us can't. Weird.

[56Safari]

That's weird, the last photo I can see are the hinges as well. But, when I view page source, go to the next thread which is the cold air intake mock up. All of the photo links appear in the source code.

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[chevynut]

Ok now it's making sense I think. It looks like the pics are coming from a Trifive.com link, which I won't log into. Maybe those guys who are logged in can see the pics, but those of us who are not can't see them?

FLA57, can you upload the pics here directly from your computer instead of linking to Trifive?

[Florida 57]

Ok now it's making sense I think. It looks like the pics are coming from a Trifive.com link, which I won't log into. Maybe those guys who are logged in can see the pics, but those of us who are not can't see them?

FLA57, can you upload the pics here directly from your computer instead of linking to Trifive?

Will have to learn to resize.I messaged Sid on this as the provided list for pic. size does`nt include what my old camera produced.My new camera has no problem on this site.All the newly posted pics. were old progress pics. and all is torn down now.How does one resize pics. for this site please? Thanks.

[chevynut]

I don't know why I don't have to re-size my pics, but I don't recall ever having to do that. Here's some stuff Sid posted a couple years ago:

Here are some resizing sites

WebResizer.com: http://www.webresizer.com/resizer

PicResize.com: http://www.picresize.com (http://www.picresize.com/)

ResizeYourImage.com: http://www.resizeyourimage.com (http://www.resizeyourimage.com/)

Sid

[Florida 57]

Under dash gauge pod fashioned from a 57 Desoto.Only bidder on ebay at $20.00 for two of them.22 gauge steel and fiberglass with reworked attaching bolts.

[WagonCrazy]

I see those gauge pod images now...nice and clear and large.

[Florida 57]

Two different glove box stop-arms were used in 57, one that stops the door opening at the top inside dash and one that stops towards the bottom as well as two different glove box inside spot welded braces for whatever reason.(Different suppliers?) I chose the one that stops at the bottom and reconfigured it so that it will stop the door above console once completed.Letters and numbers cut from old licence plates and Chevy emblem is a 50`s truck radio delete all welded to the door.

[Florida 57]

Continuing along the lines of the unusual and the use of old metal license plates and other, are the inner fender wells.Perhaps many would`nt do much beyond welding up holes, bending new ones, smoothing, ect. One side is my New Jersey affiliation and the other Florida.Some letters I could not find in the same stamping so I made or remade with weld. three coats of SPI epoxy and wet sanded.Finial finishing to happen after re-primed and completed blasting. I sealed the back of each (except two) with JB Weld while wet, clamped pieces of 22 gauge, welded the edges, ground somewhat flat and more SPI.

[BamaNomad]

wow... that is really neat but it seems to be HUGE amount of work to do it... :)

[Florida 57]

wow... that is really neat but it seems to be HUGE amount of work to do it... :)
Thanks and yes, much work that I am no stranger to. I found controlling the heat on the welds was somewhat challenging to get proper penetration without warping the surrounding metal. I`m thinking after paint I will use a small roller to paint the different colors on the raised letters, numbers, other.