Most recently I have been working on the hood.
Welded and repaired the hood in a couple of places.
Installed new hinges. Painted, insulated and installed sealing strips..

I also got inspiration from the Dodge A100 forum on Facebook where someone had made an overlay on the hood with a cup holder. I made the foundation and then I have to thank my father who helped me sew and cover it with leather. I was really happy with the end result.

Some overview pictures of the front of the interior..
Has a 15″ steering wheel now but will be upgraded to an 18″ steering wheel eventually.

Managed to get a few hours in the garage today.

Had 22 things to do on my to-do list, now there are only 20 things left.

Made templates for the upper panels on the front doors.
Cut out the aluminum sheets and covered them with some artificial leather.
Final assembly and this is the result.

Now I’m completely finished with all the panels, nice to be able to focus on other things now.

Today’s project.
The small panels above the front doors are manufactured and installed.

Worked on the front doors the last few days.
Shims and adjusted the hinges.
Installed and adjusted the door locks.
Installed electric solenoids for electric opening of the doors.
Removed the inner handles to open the doors.
Now there is an electric button on each door instead and it can be controlled remotely.
Installed electricity to the doors.
Installed interior door handle, same as the side doors.
Made new panels and covered them with artificial leather.
Installed speakers.

Worked on the front seats for a few days now.
Adjusted and remade the brackets under the seats.
Repainted the wheel arches in the car and finally assembled everything with belts etc.

Not much was done today but got the buttons working to open and close the side doors, and installed extra handles to be able to pull the doors in when closing.

Finished and installed the panels to the right of the passenger seat and the panel above the side doors and rear doors.

The panels above the front doors and the lower panels on the front doors are not manufactured yet. Have to solve some other problems first.

The inner panels for the rear doors are finished.
Had to change the shaft for the right door handle so
that the right handle could be installed.
Insulated and paneled and this is how it turned out.

I’m going to do a quick clean of my small 40 square meter
garage and then I’ll take it easy for the rest of the day.

Finished the following, side door panels.
Installed some front turn signals.
Installed some speakers.

More seats installed. Had to make a special solution for one of the belts. Quick release so it should make it easier to go to the back row without getting caught in the belt.

Thanks to my father who helped me sew the quick release belt

Back row seats and belts installed.

I have cut out and installed foam between the ribs on the floor to sound insulate and make the floor more comfortable to walk on. Install the carpet to see how it turned out.

Tomorrow I will install some seats, it w ill be fun.

Finished the right rear side panel today.
Prepared wiring and connector for the door speaker.

The LEFT side of the interior panel is now complete.
Used my templates and then cut out the aluminum sheets.
Then covered the sheets with the same leather that I installed on the ceiling.
Before installation, there was also 95mm of rock wool insulation inside.
I can’t have such high demands when I’ve never worked with interiors before.

Now the artificial leather is installed and is ready for the inner roof.
I was pleased with the result.

Been working all day today measuring, aligning, and installing the sheets for the inner roof.
We’ll see if the plan holds, then I’ll get to installing the artificial leather tomorrow.

I have insulated the entire ceiling now and will soon cut out the aluminum sheet that will be installed and covered with leather.

Pretty much finished with the templates for the panels.

Will make some fine adjustments when I remove them.

I have to wait until the material I’m going to use arrives so
I can cut out and assemble the leather.

The roof panels are just rectangular pieces in different sizes
so I won’t be making any templates for them.

Bought more thick large sheets of paper and have now started making the templates for the interior panels in the car.
Have a bit left, will also make templates for the interior roof.

When everything is ready, it will be cut out everything from aluminum sheet and then covered with artificial leather.

Also managed to get a pair of turn signals / parking lights for the front of the car, not the easiest thing to find these days.

Always trying to make sure I do at least one thing a day to get the project moving.

Made all the seatbelt mounts today.
Will try to get the right color code for the car to paint all the mounts.
The color doesn’t really matter as everything will be covered with panels later.

Have tried to put some effort into getting the instrument panel ready
so that the electrical system can be completed.

Have cut new holes for the new gauges.
Have cut away the old attachment for the gear lever.

Welded a new attachment for the gear lever and filled the hole
on the top and the frame side.

It took me about 10 rounds of filler before I was reasonably satisfied.

I got hold of some self-adhesive artificial leather that I was going to try.
The results were beyond expectations.

Bought a new 4x2m rug from a local rug shop.
Took me half a day to create a paper template and then cut out the rug. After the rug was cut out I sent it to a seamstress to finish the edges of the rug. I was really happy with the result.

I had to search and search for quite a while before I found suitable chairs that I wanted in the car. I got hold of 2 rear seats 3 + 3 and also 2 front seats from the same car. I was really happy with the result. Now there is room for both family and friends. I had to rebuild the front seats a lot to make them fit. For the rear seats I had to build new frames between the seats and the floor. The seats come from an electric SUV called the Hongqi E-HS9, model year 2023.