#ProjectSR76 What Is It

Every now and then you run across a “What the hell is this?” Look this over and tell me what you think.


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Tim

#ProjectSR76 Seats Before and After – Black Conversion.

Videos coming up. But here is the before and after for my 76 Stingray’s seat. From this awful gray to a respectable black. I’m converting all the interior to black.

Before And After

 

Gray Carpet gone – Black temporarily in place

Will have to pull out the seat and carpet and put in heat shield, then trim the carpet.  But it is going to look great.

#ProjectSR76 An Alarming Discovery

Maybe the most fun you can have when restoring a old car is the tear down process.  Discovering the hidden gems like signatures of the installer, factory repair tags and other unique things.

#ProjectSR76 is fun to work on for those reasons.

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#ProjectSR76 Upholstery – Passenger Seat Episode 3

Welcome back to Average Guys’ Car Restoration Mods and Racing.  

This the next installment of #ProjectSR76 this is the 3rd episode for the upholstery work.

A quick look at the tools and the new foam for the passenger seat.

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OCT’S PETROL BOX

I have a lot of videos coming up on #SR76.

Now, you know I like PETROL BOX so here is the months contents.  I love this month’s shirt!!!


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#ProjectSR76-1976 Stingray- New Stuff – Carpet!!

Love it when new stuff comes in for a project.

For #ProjectSR76, the new carpet is in and the hard backs for the seats.

Take a look:


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Tim

#ProjectSR76 Upholstery – Passenger Seat Episode 1

#Project SR76 (my 1976 Stingray) is getting a new interior – converted to black. Tearing down the passenger seat and cataloging production numbers and dates.


Next up will be the back of the seat. It’s a bit more complicated.

 

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Tim

#ProjectSR76 – Upholstery and Seat Markings

I’ve started the replacement of the interior with upholstery for the seats.  I’ve only completed this task on my Mustangs (1970 and 1973).  I grabbed some numbers from the old stuff.

This shows what I think is a place to code the date for the upholstery.  I’m guessing 1975 is the year the fabric was produced.  I have no idea what the TEX is for but the numbers around it could be for marking the month.  This appears all over the fabric.

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This image show and FR in a triangle.  No idea what that refers to (Front Right?)

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This one image shows the FR with a date stamp of  May 27 1976

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Here is a metal seat tag.  There is one on the seat bottom and one on the seat back.  They have a part number it appears and then LS1 (perhaps the trim level?)  “M 1476” (May 14, 1976?)

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I’ll be posting up some videos shortly.

 

Tim

#ProjectSR76 Electrical Episode1.2 – Tach

Everything should be this easy.

#ProjectSR76 Tach problem is solved.

Take a look:

 


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Tim

#ProjectSR76 Electrical Episode 1 Intro and Tach

Let me start with this:

I HATE ELECTRICAL WORK.  I really didn’t pay attention in Shop class (yes I’m that old) nor in 4H when we made lamps.   Plus I had a few mishaps during several attempts to repair things.  Once I was drilling a hole with an electric drill in a an aluminum door and hit a wire hidden by the previous home in the frame.  The drill bit exploded and I fell off the ladder and my drill fried.  Add that to a few fried wires,  radios and computer boards during failed attempts at soldering and you’ll get a well rounded picture of my electrical wheelhouse.  Oh, toss in the fact that I’m colored blind and well…you get it.

I’ve a bit better experience with cars, but not enough to be comfortable.

 

 



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Tim