The time has fully come to start making the Truckstang's interior whole again. With the floors covered and the greater interior covered, I can start bolting up the fully covered panels. I started in the rear with the two rear seat side panels, then moving up to the panels that go directly above them. From there I installed the corner pieces, following with the trim moldings that cover the seams between the larger pieces. Funny thing is, I ended up with two trim moldings that I can't quite pinpoint where they're supposed to go yet. I tried fitting them up to all the known areas I can see that look like they would accept some kind of trim and these pieces don't seem to fit anywhere. Hopefully I'll figure out where these pieces go before I end up just setting them aside, never to install them at all. In the meantime the rear most section is assembled, sans speaker panel. On the speaker panel I had to remove the speakers in order to fully cover the panel with paint. It's just as well since these speakers are old and their cones are brittle. They probably won't even work anyway so its just as well these speakers come out and stay out, only to be replaced with new speakers at a later time. In the meantime, the speaker panel was fully painted with a few coats and bolted up to the hinges on the rear interior body. This panel originally allowed for access to the trunk from the rear seat area, for being able to store long items from the trunk into the rear seat area. Until I figure out the rear seat situation, this panel will just be a simple movable hatch covering nothing. The bottom of the panel is wide open and will need to be filled in, either with the rear seat body or scrap sheet metal made into some type of interior body paneling to blend in with the rest of the interior body structure. With all of the rear interior panels and pieces installed, I move into the home stretch with the interior assembly. I'll take the time to spray down the sun visors, since the paint I'm using is good for multiple surfaces, not just metal. I'll also disassemble the center console in order to spray the white plastic body as well as the black surfaces on the top piece. I also need to make some cuts to the door sill trim pieces, since the floor patches going to the rear don't follow the same lines as the old flooring and hence may not allow these pieces to fit properly. I also have the rearview mirror which also includes the hooks for the sun visors. This used to be chrome plated but due to rust, I decided to just sand it down best I could and spray it with a metallic silver paint to at least try to make it look somewhat decent, better than rust and flaked out chrome material. More on that in the next session...
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