Parts donor part 3

I spent some quality time in the shed again yesterday afternoon, spending a small amount of time on the ’76 car (more on that later). But most of the time was spent clearing out the interior of the parts car.

My original plan was to remove the dashboard assembly and the main wiring harness. But I thought it would be better to first strip the rest of the interior. This was prompted by the fact that a lot of the interior trim had already been (partially) removed or loosened.

As the seats were already loose in the car that seemed to be the best place to start, followed by the centre console (yes I had to crawl underneath the rear of the car to undo the hand brake cable, in order to remove the gear lever surround) and the rear bulk head trim.

The parcel shelf is only fit for the skip, the rear bulkhead trim might be useful in future. So that was put aside, leaving me with a fairly empty interior.

Next came the body harness (RKC 3630). Most of the connections had already been disconnected. Only the earth points and heated rear window wires were still in place. Easy!

As there was still plenty of day light left, I removed some more parts including the very dead boot lid struts (clearly replaced for obvious reasons 😝), the door strikers, the rear quarter grilles, and the rear window.

I was quite surprised that the last item only took me about 5 minutes to remove from the car. And the seal looks like it might be fit to be used again after a bit of cleaning. Final pieces I removed were the drip gutter trim pieces. Also easy using a soft faced hammer.

The final job for the day was removing the carpets and inspecting the floor sections.

As you can see are both rear sections in fairly good condition. But both foot wells have signs of standard amounts of rust, with the drivers foot well also showing signs of a water leak. Might be that some extra welding is necessary in that area.

To be continued!