Seeing as how we have never posted any interior pics of Roxy up, seems about darn time I suppose. Kate had a wild hair to go shoot outside tonight and wandered over to Roxy after the sun had gone down.

Anyways, not too shabby for a n00b car shooter I think.

Here are the new doors I've been working on this past month. I tried to replicate the old 1973 Carrera RS door pull straps out of some climbing rope/strap, some 22g aluminum sheet and went from there. Special thanks to Kate for putting up with me cutting aluminum sheet in the den at 10 at night with a sabre saw and sheet metal blade btw...

I then drilled 18 holes in my doors, used my new threaded insert gun (BEST TOOL EVAR) and attached the panel by way of some industrial hex screws and finishing washers. Even though I thought I had a fairly straight hand when cutting, the edges were still not perfect so Kate suggested we use the lil door jam strips you can get at the local parts store as a simple way of cleaning up the edges. Normally I frown on those things because I think they're sort of trashy/cheap and that I didn't want to combine 4 stripes to surround the panel because they weren't long enough. But as luck would have it, I found some strips for trucks that were 4' long and totally did the trick without any visible breaks around the perimeter.

I also wanted to add the alarm LED to the car but didn't want it to be seen so I got one of those super bright ones from ebay. I drilled a 1/32" hole in the door and hot glued the LED so it was flush and hidden in the day with the aluminum but totally visible at night when it was blinking.



Here's some of the dash. Basic textured cabby dash swap, nos Momo steering wheel and my grandpops airplane gauge in the foreground. The popup gauge in the speaker panel can be hiden by way of linear actuator attached to the base of it.

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