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Is there a best way to go on an interior panel kit for a 62 MKII? Pretty much all of the orignal is unusable or modified. Previous owner fixed the door panels with hand towels and cotter pins! :confuse:
 
There are plans I've seen for the interior panel kit. Someone here has them. A do it yourself project. Pretty Simple. Foam for backing and pleather from JoAnn's Fabrics or such. < $50 by the time you are done. Or MOSS or AH Spares if budget allows.
 
Jim_Gruber said:
There are plans I've seen for the interior panel kit. Someone here has them. A do it yourself project. Pretty Simple. Foam for backing and pleather from JoAnn's Fabrics or such. < $50 by the time you are done. Or MOSS or AH Spares if budget allows.
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If you want you can get a lot fancier than Moss or AH spares though the company name escapes me. Seemed like it was out of Vancouver. All leather interior if you want!

Kurt.
 
Heritage Trim
 
Jim_Gruber said:
There are plans I've seen for the interior panel kit. Someone here has them. A do it yourself project. Pretty Simple. Foam for backing and pleather from JoAnn's Fabrics or such. < $50 by the time you are done. Or MOSS or AH Spares if budget allows.
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Hadn't thought about this route. Does anyone have a link, I couldn't find it in the search. The originals were press board with vynil, no padding. Really basic.
 
Millrat, I've got a pair of black door panels that I just got from AH Spares. I'm pretty sure I'm not going to use them....If I don't, I'll just be looking to recoup $85 so I could save you the international shipping. Let me know if that might work for you...
 
Thanks, I will consider it. I have a fellow that may be doing a custom job using the old pieces as patterns. Still negotiating as he will do seats, carpet and interior panels if I can afford it:smile:.
 
I went to lowes and got a sheet of that pressed board(like peg board but with no holes in it) for about $7 and then traced my old panels on that sheet and cut out new ones and got some contact cement and quilt type material and vinyl at my local fabric shop for less than 10 bucks and did all my panels with a staple gun to hold the vinyl. It was cheap and took me about 4 hours. The panels are plain but not a big deal to me.
 
We are looking at something similar using press board (masonite?) or door skins. My upholstery guy says that he has had good luck with both. Here in Oregon it is a bit moist most of the time so whatever we use needs to be moisture resistant to some degree.
 
Hi Milrat -

I have (offcially) a 1964 MKII but do to some of the items on it / not on it believe it's a 62.

I have done the same project. The above advice above regarding taking the old piece and making templates from cardboard then masonite works wonderfully. I did that and sanded lightly the masonite (just to be safe). Many of the items were re-clipped from remaining (you can re-buy from Moss). On items that wasn't finished' I either glued down or stapled down (22 gauge ulphostery gun)

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Buy staples also - now a Lowe's or HD item (too oddball). It took a while, but this was the only way I was able to get a non-black interior (I have tan).

Email me along the way if you have Q. I would highly recomm sound dampening (blocks road heat from ashphalt) and carpeting (stockinteriors.com) 'while you're at it'......

George Zeck

gzeck at email dot com
 
I used Plexiglas for backing in my panels. I had just finished a picture framing job replacing plex and had several large pieces. (if you had to buy it new it would be to expensive) I picked up some marine vinyl at the fabric store and some 3M spray and put it all together. I had no panels for templates so had to make cardboard ones. With the plex I could hold them in place and mark the screw holes. About a moister proof as it gets.
 
It's great to see that there is more than one way to skin a cat :smile:. That staple gun may be my next purchase even if I don't use it for the car.
 
I've purchased BE panel kits from both AH Spares and Heritage Trim. Both were well made and fit with only minor adjustment.

I am making them myself for a '66 Sprite restoration. I purchased the press board from Home depot (same stuff that Heritage and AH Spares used by the way) and the thinner vinyl and some rolled foam from Joann's Fabrics. I have the press board cut and the foam applied. Haven't started on the vinyl yet.

In the case of the '66 Sprite, staples are necessary as the vinyl is not glued to the foam only to the press board on the back side of the panel. For Bugeyes and Mk II Sprites staples are not necessary. Vinyl in glued directly to the press board on the front as well as the back.
 
I also purchased a kit from a different source. Poor quality and I am going to send it back and start over. It seems that quality varies widely on some items.

Sending the car to the interior guy in the next week or so and we will map out a direction. I am working under my wife's strict guidelines so doing it myself is probably not an option on this one:smile:. It really is mostly her car.
 
Don't know if he makes a kit for the Sprite, but Owen Lloyd at Park Lane Classics does really quality work. He was a trimmer for Aston Martin, Jaguar and Rolls Royce.
 
I have a guy here in the valley that used to do a lot of Austin Healey work for a collector. Seems to know his stuff, so that is where the car is headed.
 
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