does anybody know anybody making like a rear dash pad or the cardboard piece so i can upohlster it myself. its the rear dash piece in my 78 coupe. id even take one out of another car for a template. this is the only thing my interior is missing to be perfect! black is preferable but i can cover another color. im using an old peice of carpet and its ugly! please help!!! :hangover: sorry this was in the wrong forum place!! ooops!
I believe the rear deck is made of fiberboard.
I pulled the rear deck out of a 70 something Maverick last summer and I still have it in storage between two sheets of cardboard to keep it straight and undamaged. I want to take it to my 78 Sedan/Coupe and see if they are the same size, but I haven't had the chance, I've been working on larger projects lately. If it is, I will get a template for it and mail it to you. Just PM me with an address!
I just recently made me a cut out, out of cardboard. It isn't perfect but it filled in the back. I actually got lazy though and just did it "hit and miss" with the cutting. What I should have done, and what you can do to make a template is..... Go to a butcher or a grocery store meat cutter and ask them for about 6 feet (may be a bit much, better safe then sorry) of their butcher paper. Then take that home and proceed to push it into the deck area. Take a pencil and carefully trace the seems where the paper meets the walls of the car (should have been pushed into the walls having your fingers in between the top and bottom of the paper kinda makeing a seem per say). Then take it all out and cut your pencil traced area a little bigger then where the pencil mark is. Then of coarse you would just take the cut out piece and put it back in the deck area and do the final cuts!!
Hope that wasn't to confusing. I got the idea when the dash pad makers did that for my PT Cruisers dash. It was the first car they had like that so they had to make a template!!
Here's a pic of my not so good cardboard.
(http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m247/myhrdly/Pinto/IMG_0220.jpg)
I was going to cover it with some type of material, but I didn't care for how it came out and decided to just use it as a temp fix until I can get some butcher paper and do it right!!! ;D
Kim
I'm getting ready to undergo a project similar to what you are needing. I got my fiberboard pulled out in two pieces and am going to tape it together and make a template. I'm going to use 1/8" plywood and insulation wrapped in a material of my choice. I'll keep you updated on my progress.
-beegle55
Wow, I must have been tired. I actually rebuilt my rear deck with 3/8" particle board, and some magical bondo work to make it perfect. Here are some pictures.
This is the link to the page on my project thread that covers my reproduction of the rear deck, and the complications involved such as the slanted section at the back of the car that holds it in place.
http://www.fordpinto.com/smf/index.php/topic,7356.40.html
Quote from: dave1987 on February 17, 2009, 03:27:43 PM
Wow, I must have been tired. I actually rebuilt my rear deck with 3/8" particle board, and some magical bondo work to make it perfect. Here are some pictures.
This is the link to the page on my project thread that covers my reproduction of the rear deck, and the complications involved such as the slanted section at the back of the car that holds it in place.
http://www.fordpinto.com/smf/index.php/topic,7356.40.html
Wow, that is nice!! Can I get one it black and one in brown??? ;D
Wow, working in an upholstery shop pays off again. We redid the back deck in a 79 Firebird just a couple months ago. There was nothing there to start with, so we had to make a pattern. We used cardboard about the thickness of the back of a legal pad, but longer (about 2 feet long) Working in two pieces, one on each side, we roughed the pattern large (eyeball the angle), and then trimmed about 1/4" at a time, about 3 or 4 times, here and there. Then we taped the two pieces together laying in place with masking tape. The original style "board" was available in 4x8 sheets, just like plywood for about $10 a sheet, so you can practice a few times, and it wont kill the budget. This is the original style material that is "semi-flat" black on one side and natural color on the other. Speaker cutouts can be traced from the inside of the trunk to the pattern if you're taking advantage of the 6"x8" holes in the metal deck.
Hope that helps!
Chuck