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Originally Posted by Adam
Looking good 
It'll look even better with that chrome trim back on. I had a 72 Impala that was just one solid color (green), and I added that trim that goes around the back of the roof (I pulled it from a car at the junkyard that had the vinyl roof) and I really liked the way it looked with the addition of the trim even though my car didn't have the vinyl top. |
Thanks guys!
I've got the all the window trim on (though due to the bottom rear window clips rusting away each piece of bottom rear trim is only held on by 2 (should be ~5) clips on each end.
I plan to figure out the roof trim in mid July. There was only one push on clip left on the small section below the opera window on one side (the rest of those have been orange dust for a long time). The band that wraps over the roof and the sections below the back window were secured mostly by these rivveted on parts that look like a histeriesis graph with a wire sticking out...some were badly rusted and most would interfere with needed body filler work so I ground them off...I need to source some new ones and figure out how best to fit them to the 1/4" holes the old rivets occupied. Also about 2/3 of the width of the roof trim was painted, but some of it chipped off... I'm going to have to respray that.
Last night I finished the rubbing and polishing treatment and took it to a car wash. There are a couple spots of overspray mist adheared dust I think I need t rub out a bit more, and I'm hoping to wax the polished areas in the next week but I may not have time.
Once I have it looking good I plan to shift focus to making it run good.