Thread: Floor in Don Shillady roadster

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This is not a disaster beyond fixing, but if it is not fixed, it will certainly become one. All of the glassing required on the inside of the car body can easily be accomplished over a two day weekend. This will of course require some pre-planning, having the various peices of matt precut and numbered, rubber gloves, a warm garage, and a gallon of resin. The really dreadfull issue is that in your haste to have a finished car, you had all of the paintwork done far too soon in the evolution of your roadster. Before you do anything more, you are going to have to come up with a means of lifting the body off of your chassis, flipping it over, and glassing the underside. You can NOT do this without flipping the body upside down. Gravity will just keep making any new glass and resin work slump and fall off on the floor or on your head!!! I think probably a bunch of old rubber tires laid flat and covered with old blankets or something of that nature would serve as a bed to lay the body on, upside down, so that you can glass the underside of things. The firewall can be covered with a sheet of polished aluminum---AFTER the required glasswork is completed. You are not so far advanced with your build that you can not stop now and rectify things, but after the car is completely wired and upholstered, it will be a complete nightmare.