After getting the Scion's rear suspension taken care of, I immediately turned my attention back to the Truckstang. Since I'm so close to finishing up the interior restoration on the car, I decided to do some preparatory work. The first thing I had to do was remove the door panels and the window cranks and door release levers to leave just the door shells. From there I sanded down the door shells all around to ready the surface for painting. This is really only temporary, as these doors have rusted out areas along the bottoms that pretty much make these doors junk. Until then though, they'll be painted in order to make the interior at least look a lot better than it did before even doing anything on this car. Along with the raggedy door shells are the door panels. Even though the skins aren't really bad, the particle board underneath the skins is degraded heavily. I could attempt to do a project like I did with the Chevy LUV's door panels where I removed the door panels' skins then carved out a replacement base out of some thin Lauan particle board that I recovered with the old skin. This might be an option even though I can get replacement door panels for a little better than $100. Only thing is, I might have to paint the surface if the white doesn't match up to the Ivory Bisque shade of white I used on the interior panels. In the meantime these panels will need to be cleaned off before I can spray them down. I also have to mask off the chrome plated trim that runs around the middle of the panel. I don't want to just cover this up with paint so I'll have to mask this off before painting the panels. I'll also have to mask off the tops of the doors to keep paint off the vent windows and side windows. At this point, the interior will be almost done.
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