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John ED Renstrom

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that was the sign up on Crazy horse for years. my drop shop site in closed for repairs so I can't get in we are up to figuring out what is wrong with the seat I had redone 5 years ago. think we have a good handle on it now. they use 8 coil packs of stair stepping coils nailed to the plywood bottom. they were tied together in a simple pattern to make sure that all shared some of the load. so when things shifted under my rear this is what happen. the man had retied the coils on the drivers side in a spider web. the web shifted and the coils separated. and down things went. i discovered when I exposed this that most of the nailed were loose and the straps the coils were on were bent. they added a layer of foam to compensate for loses of padding. so it was tighten things up swap a row of bad bent coils to the center and screw it down tight then restring the damaged to the original pattern. put the first layer of burlap were it was when they built the seat and go up from there. as long as I was doing that I welded the nuts for the adjusted on to the frame work. so we didn't have to fight them putting the material back on. we are entering the final assembly part tomorrow. be glad to get this done I want my garage back. here are a few pictures
 

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Let's start a list simply put: "What is it that Ed cannot do?" Sure to be a short list.

1) Can't embalm (as far as I know)

Next???
 
You are amazing...

You never cease to amaze me with what you can do Ed. I hope you and Kandi are staying safe up there.
 
Staying safe maintaining our chosen life style as best we can. Just keeping busy. I need to get this one togather. And the 64 in the work stall. But to answer Richard. It's all attitude if you start with the ida that someone else did it you can to, then add anything I screw up can be redone. You get over your fear factor. Remember i only show pictures of stuff that works. Been getting wages for doing this stuff since i was 16 had a lot of help anong the way. But you want to see this philosophy in action look back at the upper molding clips Richard made for his life liner. As for this seat i paid a man 500 bucks to recover it. He did the one thing i don't have the ability to do that's make those seams stright. But it would have been a lot nicer if he had given me a call and i had done this then. Remember the ida if you want you car better do one thing positive a day on the car. In a years time its 365 ways better then it was.
 
The joy of revisiting the 60s. Thousands of those springs stoked at HR Howard & sons, miles of twine, and racks of material.
Carls Auto Seatcovers where I learned the art of tieing coils and the dirty triks as well. Pulled many covers from new police cars and stitched jute backed carpet to the springs with a sail needle and marlin.

I don't know if I'm happy Art Ritus won't let me push a needle any more.
 
with nothing that fancy here using dental floss and a burlap sack.
 

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we have got the seat bottom recovered. our next step is to replace the missing adjuster springs if we can then get it in place. then it's back on the 64 to get the brakes adjusted properly and steering arms tied back down. swap places with the cars. so we can get the rest of the rear interior in place with out running back and forth.
we did get the rod repaired also
 

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getting close. we have the hard wair in place now . added the floor covering that was missing from the front half and put crush nuts in Armbrusters holes. we'll put the seat belts back in before we add the seat bottom.
 

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got this much finished up for now. for got to run the wires for the spot light but we can get them easily enough. getting some stretches of decent weather so time to shuffle the cars again. but we are up to here now. the random holes drilled for the seat belts were fun to do by your self. miss my helper.

at this point the seat is higher they we would like and wider then the car. started out as far forward a it goes and could only go 2 notches back before it jams the outside corners into the divider. those standard seat swap things.
 

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got the visors in place. we took apart the mounts to have them plated. don't think I'll do that again those pened over pot medial pieces were only meant to assembled once. but that war chrome is so bad one had to do something. vary surprising the looks like it but just doesn't fit parts between the pon and chevy in these years. next is to run the wires for the spotlights and get the trim pads in place.
 

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Just amazing, when you see all of the bits and pieces a restoration requires. But, the end result is rewarding.
 
so yesterday was spent running wire for the spot lights and recovering the armrest. 67 year old plastic is showing some wear spots but it polished up enough. we has some leather scraps the right color I saved from the 63 project. just enough for armrest. a little thick to work with but covers nicer then the vinyl. we will need them to hold the trim pad on while we drill and screw. gm use the fold over tabs and nails in 53 to put there trim pads on the doors. the material that was used in these would not hold the nails will so it's screws Armbruster just wrapped the gm pads in there chosen interior color. then good news is I have the gm trim for the front doors on a 53 pon.
 

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funny how when your working on something parts in the bin look OK. then when wen you go to put then on later as you bring the car up it nope. spent a lot of time looking for the spotlights for this car. final excepted that these were the one . quick cruse threw e-bay and none as good as what we have ordered a new set from unity. so we wait to get them on. need to find a set of lock know ferals to finish off the hole for the wires but we did get this door looking like this.
 

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She's a real beauty Ed! The only thing she's missing in the pic is one, or both of the dogs "supervising" on the seat!
 
Should have asked... I have lots of NOS Unity spotlights. The ferrules are part of the mounting package, not the spotlight package. Many of these older part numbers have been discontinued.
 
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