Unplanned mods...sigh.
So..after cleaning up the passenger inner fender and getting it primed, and after tweaking the tail light mount and inside the trunk, and getting that all primed, I ran out of welding wire.
So today I took a look at cutting out the rotten places in the passenger floor and made two big holes. I'm going to make my own pans, this car has undercoating on the bottom.
The cross member and frame rail seem to be in good shape. I also got interested in the doors and how the Audi panels might go on them. Turns out they wont. So I then thought about blending the '67 stuff and the 2002 Audi stuff. I took all of the Audi stuff off of the door panel and tried different combinations of stuff and different placements. The doors will be all power everything.
What I came up with is to use the Audi armrest/pull handle/window switch/lighted ashtray, over top of the '67 armrest base. I noticed that the Audi armrest inside width is the same as the outside width of the '67 base minus the outer rim. I used a cutoff wheel and trimmed to fit. After several times back and forth finessing the edges I came up with what you see here.
The '67 door panel( which will get new material cover w/ two tone), the '67 base ( which will be repainted one of the panel colors), the '67 door opening handle and base( with the chrome pull upside down). So, you can grab the Audi pull handle area and slide your finger(s) behind the upside down handle and pull to unlatch the door. There are two Bose Audi Symphony speakers in each door( means i have 4 sets because the Audi was a wagon w/ 4 doors) a small 1 1/2 inch and a 5 inch. I will be scouting the best location for those, the little one up high and forward the big one down low. The second set will go to the rear of the interior somewhere.
There is a wood grain insert that aligns with the dash curve as it comes to the door and I will need to figure that out, again i have 4 doors from the Audi wagon, all with all of these things on them.
The bottom of the Audi doors have the speaker, a CD control panel and a tilt out compartment. This unit is about 5 inches thick and is inset in the Audi door whereas the '67 door is flat. So I'm going to slide the glass back in and the window crank assembly and see where that lies so I can see what i have for space that I can cut a space for the unit to slide into the door some and so reduce how far it sticks out into the cabin. The issue is the seats plus the console does not leave a lot of room on either side. It will be a close shave so I will have to study that some. I'd like to use them but if not I'll live. I decided that since I am NOT going to use the Audi panels I can trim the dash some more and move it forward a few inches maybe. Gotta see how the heat/AC unit fits up to the firewall first. I included a pic of the Audi interior so you get an idea what the doors look like. There are a couple of small courtesy lights too, a red and a white that will go red on the back edge of the door facing the rear and the white on the bottom of the door facing the ground.
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I also installed the support channel steel on the inside of the hood frame. This gives me some meat to bolt the forward tilt hinges to and the support for the back of the hood as it comes up. I pulled some gas lift rods from a big wagon in the salvage yard and they will go on the hood. Another set on the trunk. I got it primed and now need to clean up and prime the hood skin and sandwich them back together.
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