I've been slowly plodding along on the '65. It's been slow mainly because I'm working on the headliner and I get cramps in my hands and hip joints after an hour or so of crawling in out of the car and pulling the vinyl into place. I am way out of my wheelhouse doing this headliner, so there is a lot of stress too. Happy hour comes early on the days I work on the headliner.
So far so good. Not too many wrinkles. Some of the "wrinkles" in this picture are shadows. I had the passenger side looking pretty good until I tightened the window latch down. Arghh!
Every now and then I take a break from gluing vinyl and do some wrench work. I finally finished converting the old single master cylinder to a dual master cylinder system and put in a new steering coupling.
When I'm REALLY down about the slow progress I work on something shiny, in this case the dashboard. Nothing like some bling to make it look like I'm getting somewhere. Still waiting for the chrome radio plate to come back from the plater. Shaun? Shaun??
I installed a new clutch cable when I put the pedal cluster back in. Thanks to the days I made my living working on VWs I still had some special VW tools in the toolboxes. These clutch cable jamb nut wrenches haven't been used in 50 years, and really came in handy. Ignore the wing nut.
This won't mean much to anyone who hasn't changed a VW clutch cable. I dropped the acorn adjusting nut for the clutch cable and
could not find it.
When I used to replace clutch cables I never took the adjusters off. They were usually rusted on, so I kept a handful of new nuts in my toolbox to replace them with. I dug through the boxes of old parts in the barn and BINGO! An acorn nut AND a wing nut! They're 50 years old, but not rusty. (Up to 1965 they used an acorn nut. Then switched to the easier wing nut in '66).