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Looks lovely!
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These trim panels and clips are frustrating me at the moment, but I have managed to get another couple fitted.
Also got the flooring and threshold trims down as well.
Also got the flooring and threshold trims down as well.
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Looking very nice so far.
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Wow. Looks fantastic! Would you share the source for your trim panels?
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Coming along very very nicely 
Custom made by Austin Watts at Waboo Automotive
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so clean! you must be so chuffed with the progress! @sparkywig
I'm quite pleased, but as nothing fits first time it's all just a faff though.
Quick catch up.
Had to take the walkthrough trim panels and aluminium channel back off as the walkthrough pedestal rubber mats have turned up.
Yet again repro rubbish that is almost right but so frustratingly wrong.
Today was a struggle getting them to fit, lots of trimming and one side seems to be slightly bigger than the other.
Not too happy with the fit, you can see where the right hand one is stretched in the right hand footwell, but I'm not taking them off again.
Had to take the walkthrough trim panels and aluminium channel back off as the walkthrough pedestal rubber mats have turned up.
Yet again repro rubbish that is almost right but so frustratingly wrong.
Today was a struggle getting them to fit, lots of trimming and one side seems to be slightly bigger than the other.
Not too happy with the fit, you can see where the right hand one is stretched in the right hand footwell, but I'm not taking them off again.
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Looks great!
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Looking really good.
Love the Neptune blue vans
Love the Neptune blue vans
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Looks fantastic Si, you're doing an absolutely cracking job! 
Yet another day of frustration, sliding door this time.
No matter how I tried I couldn't get all of the clips lined up with the holes in the door, so I took it off.
The holes in the trim panel are way out, no wonder it's so frustrating.
After a little modification to the ply it seems to be better and all the clips line up.
But the ply has been cut in the wrong direction out of the sheet as the grain is against the curve required to fit the panel to the door, and the clips won't hold or break.
I need to get at least one job finished, or it's been a waste of a day, so the struggle continued with the cab kick panel.
It fits.
Well, sort of.
No matter how I tried I couldn't get all of the clips lined up with the holes in the door, so I took it off.
The holes in the trim panel are way out, no wonder it's so frustrating.
After a little modification to the ply it seems to be better and all the clips line up.
But the ply has been cut in the wrong direction out of the sheet as the grain is against the curve required to fit the panel to the door, and the clips won't hold or break.
I need to get at least one job finished, or it's been a waste of a day, so the struggle continued with the cab kick panel.
It fits.
Well, sort of.
In other news, more pics have been unearthed of the deluxe in Blake's Yard.
And here's a few more pics from Blake's.
Yes, that is an umbrella made from Beetle bonnets. One of a number of them throughout the yard.
Nice view from here.
That's the Rocky Mountains in the distance.
I've added the Google Maps image for comparison.
You can still see the lines of school buses, but a large percentage of the yard had been removed by the time of this image. The housing estate on the left of the image are also new.
And here's a few more pics from Blake's.
Yes, that is an umbrella made from Beetle bonnets. One of a number of them throughout the yard.
Nice view from here.
That's the Rocky Mountains in the distance.
I've added the Google Maps image for comparison.
You can still see the lines of school buses, but a large percentage of the yard had been removed by the time of this image. The housing estate on the left of the image are also new.
Porkpie
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