Nova Headliner Replacement

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2002
I decided to replace the headliner - BTW, it's not wise to do the headliner "after" the carpet. You wouldn't believe the mess I had to clean up when I ripped the old headliner out! At some time there had been a family of mice living up there and all kinds of seeds, insulation and junk were hiding up in the headliner. As I was pulling the old headliner out I marked each bows location so I could put them back in the same hole in the roof, and I also marked each bow. Here's a picture of the bows from front to back, note the color codes that GM used, that must have been how they kept track where they went at the factory Read More

Floor Pan Replacement Project

Tuesday, January 1st, 2002

Nova Floor pan - beforeRecently when I pulled the carpet out of the car to start installing the new bucket seats I discovered that the right side floorboard was heavily rusted. The jerk that attempted a previous repair had filled the rust holes with bondo. The picture above (click picture for bigger version) is after I pried most of the loose metal out and wire brushed the majority of the bondo off. Bondo creates a huge cloud… Read More

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