have not commented in a while but an awesome project. i do not have the attention span to complete that large of a project and am in awe of those that can.
If I didn't have similar issues with getting distracted, this probably would be much further along by now!
I'm calling the underside "done" apart from degreasing and picking any loose material out of crevices, which I'll be working on tonight and tomorrow. The original plan was for my sandblaster friend to come up tomorrow with some tint to darken the epoxy (it's currently a medium grey, I want something closer to the body colour), mix it up and help me paint the underside and firewall. Apparently his wife made some other plans so that task will probably need to wait a few days...hopefully not too long, but I do have plenty to keep busy with on the chassis before the mating can occur.
In the meantime I've welded the bucket seat brackets in place, a requirement as this was originally a bench seat car. The bench is held down by four bolts, two at each end. The buckets only use one of those bolts per side, and studs for the other three legs on each. Took a bit of measuring and assembly/disassembly until I felt confident to start welding.
My welding skills are still damned near non-existent, but I think I had a couple of epiphanies which have helped improve my technique. All the welds will hold, and a couple of them even look ok-ish. They'll be covered with paint and carpet so they won't be distracting!
The console needs to be trimmed to be used with the manual shift and the two mounting brackets positioned in due course. As the body is still on the rotisserie I think I'll hold off on that part until it's back on the chassis and I can climb right in there.
But...sneak peak, buckets and console...upgrade from white bench seat column shift