{FORGED?} Re: {FORGED?} Re: my 1970 Hornet project

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On April 12, 2005 Tom Jennings wrote:

> On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 AMC74Hornet@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> > The interior was toast with parts broken, missing
> > and just to far gone to repair. The door panels were so water
> > damaged the crubled when I removed them. There are no AMC's in any
> > yards in the area around N.Y. City so I collected plastic interior
> > parts from all over the country. It took me over a year to reair,
> > collect and refinish all the parts.
> 
> Sounds familiar! I've got pieces installed that have broken ends;
> it's all I could find, so I'm using them until better comes along.
> 
> > also had some small areas of the sail panels that the surface
> > plastic had become powdery like yours. A wire brush and a good
> > cleaning and they look !   fine.
> 
> Exactly my experience.
> 
> > I'll be glad when tha tan baby poop interior with
> > the leisure suit seat inserts is gone.
> 
> Now there you go, slagging leisure suits again :-)
> 
> Seriously, that crappy tan and the crappy medium blue are the
> worst colors AMC ever used, in my opinion. Not a bad color to run
> 
> SEM over though :-)
> 
> 
> 
> .
I have used a 2 part epoxy called the Plastic Welding System with great success on the hard plastic. It won't work on the rubbery plastic. Also about a year ago some one here with a 68-69 AMX repaired his replacment dash with JB Weld. I have found this to work well also. Since I am a model car builder and I have all sorts of sheet plastic that I use to back up any repairs. After 3-4 years I haven't had any cracks come back on my yellow Hornet's repaired plastic interior parts. I just removed and SEM'd the head liner for the orange car today. I cleaned it good with the proper prep and spray'd it with 3 light coats of black and one medium one to finish it. Black SEM covers any color. It looks really nice, not perfect but nice. Above driver quality. I got another weeks worth of painting assorted interior parts and then the assembly starts. Finally after 15 months of driving the car with a ratty interior it will be finished in 2 more months. I still have a dash to restore to rep!
 lace the original fried one. I also have a factory gauge pod for under the package tray that I made a custom face for and filled it with 3 Auto Meter gauges. Tomorrow I will install the Dynamat in the roof. 
"Doc"        












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