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chicken

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I can buy of the shelf trim panels for my BJ7 but chances are they won't fit and will be the wrong colour, i thought i may be able to make some and have them covered the same as the seats etc.
Are they not just wooden board ?
I think i stupidly binned mine years ago so have no copies to work of, does anyone have any sketches of the footwell,door & rear quarter panels, or better still some measurements.
 
Hello Chicken,
I can't give you dimensions, and I would suggest that you may make your own templates as I did for my BN2. First I would tape a couple of sheets of news paper together and put them up against the area I needed to make a panel for. If, for example, the foot pedal shafts were in the way I would crudely rip the paper until I could get it to lie flat around the obstacle. The I would put masking tape on the tears around the holes until I had the shape of the object. The I'd cut a slot so I could remove it without tearing it again The final panel would have no slots. You can get a good approximation of the panel shape this way. I would cut the edges as straight as possible, but not worry how accurate it is at this stage . When I had the roughed in shape I would remove the piece and transfer the shape to a piece of heavier card stock type cardboard. Then put that in place and use a scissors to trim it to fit, or if you have trimmed it too small, build the edge back up with masking tape. When you have exactly what you want, transfer that to the thinnest plywood you can buy(which can be cut with a utility knife). Make your final panel and cover with a thin fiber (fabric store stuff) mat if the covering has no backing of its own, and then your choice of final covering. Any good spray on fabric glue is fine. Use the original sheet metal screws and countersunk washers to fasten them on, and voila!
 
Hi, chicken - I did it myself last spring on my 100-6, pretty much as Roscoe explained above. It takes some time, and in some cases a couple of attempts to get it right on some of the panels, but it can be done, and the final fit is perfect for your car - give it a try. I wouldn't go too thin on the plywood for the panels, and there are a lot of adhesives out there, but 3M makes a couple pretty good spray on versions. Good Luck!

Larry
 
Roscoe and others

Thanks for that, i know i have one old panel that i can copy and from memory a door skin which i believe is metal, is this correct ?

My only concern was making the rear quarter panels, look quite complicated.
 
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