Door Sills/Aluminum Buffing

So while waiting for the door panels to try, I decided to have a go at polishing aluminum. Not too bad for a first try! Brough back some shiney! Brad/Christi, I used my dremel for this! Another use for a great gift!

Before/After:

Another Before/After (opposite ends of course)

Door Panel Restoration

So, as mentioned, the interior of my impala is an ugly/boring “saddle” color (aka Tan). Of course it’s a big faded and worn from 43 years of use… but overall in pretty good shape. I decided to try some vinyl dye (kinda like spray paint, but actually penetrates vinyl and/or fabric to recolor, and stays flexible, and keeps the same texture).

• So the door panel looked like this. (forgot to take a pic before removing the armrest/door handle, and window cranks. But you get the idea.
  
  
  
• Did some hard core scrubbing with Purple Power to clean 40 years of grime off the door panel so the dye sticks properly, and use some rust remover/chrome polish to shine up the chrome pieces.
• Tape off the chrome trim
  
  
  
• After dye is applied
  
  
  
• Removing the tape makes it pretty! Look at the
  bling!
  
  
  
• Door panel reinstalled and reassembled. It looks amazing, pictures don’t really do it justice (not to mention they show a fuzz and a couple fingerprints from re-mounting it.
  
  
  
  

So, for now, I have one pretty black door panel, with cleaned up chrome (cleaned up all the other parts too), but eventually the whole interior will be this nice! Yay!

SKILLET concert

I will be here.  No doubt.

Skillet
Thousand Foot Krutch, Decyfer Down

The Avenue - Ginghamsburg UMC - Tipp City, OH
April 04, 2008 08:00 PM
[Doors open 07:00 PM]


For info contact: 937-667-1069 For more info http://www.theavenue.org/

Impala Update - Dash work!

Well, the impala project has started. Stupid me didn't take any pictures before i started taking things apart (dangit!) so this is what i have. I've taken out the dashboard/gauges, and had re-painted/repaired some interior peices.


This is the gauge cluster bezel/trim. I taped off all the black and redid the Chrome with some special spray paint. Not perfect, but looks pretty good! It's actually upside-down in this picture... (side note, that pink bag is NOT mine, and has nothing to do with the impala)

Here is the dash with the guts ripped out. I am changing the interior from "Saddle" (aka Tan) to black, so everything you see here that is gold-ish or tan-ish will eventually be black. it is gonna look sweet!

Gauges and chrome dash moulding after cleaning, and the glovebox door after painting black. It was originally "Saddle" -- but was painted that color changing green/purple/blue terrible wannabe paint when i bought it.

pretty... :)

Things will get much more exciting, so stay tuned. now i actually have something to blog about.