Sunday, September 28, 2008

What Can You Make Out Of A Glove Box Door?

Once again, we have to thank our friends at the Studebaker Forum for helping us make a gauge panel out of a glove box door. Actually, we have many people to thank. G.D. (aka Bridgegaurd), for supplying the glove box without too much protest (tough to do when you're in Guam). Lucky, for helping John with body work on the door (it had a slight dent that needed to be taken out). Sammy, who spent most of his day in the garage with us helping us take on a task we thought we would have to pay somebody to do (We did hear something about John having a lot of sanding to do on Sammy's Bronco!).

After Tracy laid out the circles to perfection, we drilled a small pilot hole.

Then, using two and three inch hole saws, we cut out the holes for the gauges to sit in.

Here are the results. If it wasn't for Sammy, who had the right equipment and the patience to work with us, we would have never made this far. The man does know how to make something from nothing.

Here, John is trying to de-burr the edges and trying to keep the circles round. Let's just say it got to a point that we just had to laugh about it.

Beside the need to modernize our system from a 6-volt/12-volt hodge-podge system with non-working gauges, we are also attempting to clean up the wiring behind the dash. This is a great start.

The result is wonderful! We couldn't be happier. Thanks to all of our friends and family, our vision that we have for our truck is starting to become a reality. Mmmmmm...think we should chop the top? Na, we would do that to this old girl. (Besides, John's head hits the roof as it is!)

Friday, September 26, 2008

Holes have been filled



We just got our sun visors back from the upholsterer ! Let me know what you think! Sorry this second image is blurry but you can get the idea.

Monday, September 22, 2008

What Turns Me On

Along with the wiring kit Tracy and the kids got John for his birthday, they also got him a new ignition switch with new keys. So, as always, John put the cart before the horse (just wanted to see what it would look like) and picked the new location for the switch. Since the new gauge panel will not have a hole for the ignition switch, John decided to place it in one of the old heater control holes. In our eyes, it looks like it belongs there. You know what they say, though: "Beauty is in the eye of the guy paying for the parts!"

Saturday, September 20, 2008

Studebaker National Meet In Lancaster


For those of you outside the Studebaker world, the 2008 Studebaker National Meet has been going on this past week. After seeing many reviews and photos, it appears to be quite the success. We can only hope the turnout will be matched when it arrives in Glendale in 2010. One set of pictures caught our eye due to the sheer volume of the pictures (over 1700+ pics). These people obviously love Studebakers and remind us why we love being part of the Group. Studebaker owners , friends and followers have a passion that can't be matched by any other group that we've been in contact with. Thanks to Tracy Davis for letting us link to her pictures of the National Meet. Please enjoy all 1700+ of them, as we surely did! Click the link below :

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Like A Hole In My Head!

The two holes that are shown above have been have been eating away at you-know-who's OCD for some time now. But today we are glad to say that soon the sun visors shall return to their proper location instead of the box that they have been stored in (I'm curious why we took them off in the first place) . The guy that we got to redo the seat said he would repair them and recover them to match for $85.00 for the pair. Considering that one was missing everything except the frame, we think that's a good deal for the pair. If not, we at least know that he does great work! Stay tune for the final finish. We are glad to see some progress even if it's as small as sun visors.