Author: adrian

Well as all the under felt is now fitted to the car I’ve now made a start cutting out new carpets. I’ve not got that far with this as most of my carpets are missing so I don’t have anything to copy. This means I’m having to make cardboard templates and once I’m happy with the fit of the cardboard I’m cutting out a section of carpet. Its slow going but so far I’ve not screwed up yet and cut a carpet to small. The other item I spent some time on was cleaning the webasto sunroof so its ready to fit back onto the car.

Today I finally gained the motivation to finish fitting the under felt to the car. This was a slow job as the foot wells on the Marcos car are not the easiest to gain access to. Cardboard templates were made first and then these were used to cut out sections of felt just slightly larger than the template. The sections of felt were then fitted and trimmed to size before being glued into place with contact adhesive. The first one to be completed was the passengers foot well and this proved to be much easier as there were no pedals in the way and you could also gain access from under the bonnet as the battery box has still not been fitted to the car. To make it easier to work on the drivers foot well the steering wheel was also temporarily removed but by the time I had finished gluing the felt in place my knees were sore and I was light headed from the glue fumes. The photo below show the completed drivers foot well.

The fiber glass on the rear speaker panels had set so the first task was to cut the holes for the speakers I plan to fit. The photo below shows the speaker panels ready to be recovered. These were then fitted to car to ensure the fit was OK before being recovered in vinyl. Once this was completed 2 section of the dash were also recovered in vinyl.

Today I made a start on the interior of the car. The first area I worked on were the rear speaker panels. One of these had a hole cut in for a speaker and the other was complete. As the speakers I have bought are a different size the first task was to fill the hole with fibre glass so a different size hole could be cut. Once this was complete I started cutting felt and gluing it to the rear parcel shelf.