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Originally Posted by Old H2S
I like the 6 snaps, and it will hold better without buckling. You have lost your MOJO and so have I. Now I and building other peoples engines..
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I agree about the holding fast and not buckling. That's how I ended up with six.
It's a dire struggle for me to even consider going out there. I keep telling myself the love with spark back up when I can go for a drive with the homies if I can just keep it together a while longer.
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Originally Posted by Jjm4life
Looks great. My rear quarters are done in the same fabric as my seat centers, dash, and door cards. Having that material in the back, like a nice rug, really ties the room together.
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Thank you. That's exactly what I was thinking when I first thought to add Tegris to the rear.
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Originally Posted by LJ851
Could you attach the panels with magnets glued to back?
I’m not crazy about snaps visual effect on the panels either.
Edit: The heavy duty Velcro that is the same on both sides (little mushroom shapes) could also do the job.
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The lower panel flushes right up to the body. So anything I choose to hold the two panels together must be flat on the back and very low profile in between the panels. The snaps fit those parameters, but I think they're a trifle too large.
I love magnets, but I don't think they're the solution this time.
Velcro is an inspired idea, but I worry about the thickness of the two layers of Velcro between the two panels.
I'm currently looking into solid (aircraft?) rivets. They'll maintain the exposed hardware theme I have going, downsize the visual hardware, and still hold the panels solidly. I recently bought a small arbor press. If I try rivets, I'll have to spin up some dies on the lathe..or maybe just one. I'm still learning how best to install rivets.
As an aside:
I got into cars equally because I just love cars and because it's always been a social thing for me. There has always been equal opportunity to do car things alone or with friends. I had a constant stream of people coming over to 'help' with whatever I was building or I'd be in someone else's garage 'helping' them. We'd get together weekly at worst. Here I am in my mid-40s and find that the social aspect is both further than ever before and somehow also more prevalent. I build and maintain the car largely alone. The forum, social media, and group chats keep friends close, but not really. I don't see my friends in-person much until there's an event. But at the events, I see many of my friends and for days instead of hours.
This shift is widely considered to be 'part of getting older'. The build-up to events feels like 15 years ago. The fervor and pull-out-the-stops approach to working on the car, followed by the actual event, feels like home. But the post-event hangover is stronger and longer-lasting than ever before. When I got home from RR7, I knew I didn't have any car stuff to do until April. That's half the year. While this affords ample time to work on the car, that surplus of time (and shortage of cash) saps motivation. There is no compulsion to work on the car when it's cold AF and I have months and months to do a few days' worth of work. The longer that the car and I languish, the less I even want to buy things for it, much less install them when/if the part(s) come in. I have some fantastic projects that I've been dying to do for years sitting on my dining room table collecting dust because I'd rather watch YouTube or play Super Mario Bros on NES. I know there's a tiny flame still flickering, but it's weak and running on the fumes of fun had in the past. I need to find a way to reignite the inferno of yore before I opt out completely.