*sigh*.
A week's holiday from work & I'd planned to catch up with some work on the Pop. Unfortunately, my ill health has decided to step things up a notch too. I've now developed a bad back. For the first few days of the week I could barely bend enough to put my socks on. So much pain.
It's making me feel very run down, miserable & uncharacteristically grumpy -so apologies if I'm not very chirpy at the moment.
So Pop work's been restricted to a couple of slow & careful afternoons of rubbing filler down on the grille shell. It's getting there, but I'm beginning to feel the damn thing will never get back on the road.
To cheer myself up, I went shopping on American Ebay a little while ago. I now own a pair of 1942 American Ford interior window trims, with built in quarter lights. 50 quid the pair from a guy in Massachusetts -"They're from a '42, so could be Military issue, right at the start of the War". Yeah, maybe for you guys. We started without you.
The original Pop trims would have been Bakelite, but weren't with my body shell when I bought it. I bought fibreglass copies from Pop Browns but wasn't looking forward to trying to bond them to the doors, (I
hate working with fibreglass), & needed extensive modifying anyway. These are steel, which means they can be cut & welded as much as necessary, then welded direct to the doors, which should help the little bit of flexing in the window frames.
The quarter lights are attached to the trims, rather than the door frame & will obviously need re-shaping, but will add an interesting detail to confuse other Pop owners & make cutting new door window glass easier. They wind open. The mechanisms are there but the little handles are missing, so I'll probably pick up a second hand pair of Pop window winders & cut them down. The door panels are due to be recovered so I can cut holes for the winding handles then.
No rush to work on the doors, but thought I'd grab these while they were for sale.
